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11-21-2007, 11:28 PM #1
Muslim Brotherhood project exposed
The Muslim Brotherhood "Project"
By Patrick Poole
One might be led to think that if international law enforcement
authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered
a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan
developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the
most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a
program of "cultural invasion" and eventual conquest of the
West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for
more than two decades, that such news would scream from
headlines published on the front pages and above the fold
of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times,
Le Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica.
If that's what you might think, you would be wrong.
In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss
authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror
of 9/11. Since that time information about this document,
known in counterterrorism circles as "The Project", and
discussion regarding its content has been limited to the
top-secret world of Western intelligence communities. Only
through the work of an intrepid Swiss journalist, Sylvain
Besson of Le Temps, and his book published in October
2005 in France, La conquĂȘte de l'Occident: Le projet secret
des Islamistes (The Conquest of the West: The Islamists'
Secret Project), has information regarding The Project
finally been made public. One Western official cited by
Besson has described The Project as "a totalitarian ideology
of infiltration which represents, in the end, the greatest
danger for European societies."
What Western intelligence authorities know about The
Project begins with the raid of a luxurious villa in Campione,
Switzerland on November 7, 2001. The target of the raid
was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of
Lugano, who has had active association with the Muslim
Brotherhood for more than 50 years and who admitted to
being one of the organization's international leaders. The
Muslim Brotherhood, regarded as the oldest and one of
the most important Islamist movements in the world, was
founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928 and dedicated to the
credo, "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader.
Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of
Allah is our highest hope."
The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the
request of the White House in the initial crackdown on
terrorist finances in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. US
and Swiss investigators had been looking at Al-Taqwa's
involvement in money laundering and funding a wide
range of Islamic terrorist groups, including Al-Qa'eda,
HAMAS (the Palestinian affiliate of the Muslim
Brotherhood), the Algerian GIA, and the Tunisian
Ennahdah.
Included in the documents seized during the raid of Nada's
Swiss villa was a 14-page plan written in Arabic and dated
December 1, 1982, which outlines a 12-point strategy to
"establish an Islamic government on earth" - identified as
The Project. According to testimony given to Swiss
authorities by Nada, the unsigned document was prepared
by "Islamic researchers" associated with the Muslim
Brotherhood.
What makes The Project so different from the standard
"Death of America! Death to Israel!" and "Establish the
global caliphate!" Islamist rhetoric is that it represents a
flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the "cultural
invasion" of the West. Calling for the utilization of various
tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance,
propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and
terrorism, The Project has served for more than two
decades as the Muslim Brotherhood "master plan". As can
be seen in a number of examples throughout Europe -
including the political recognition of parallel Islamist
government organizations in Sweden, the recent "cartoon"
jihad in Denmark, the Parisian car-burning intifada last
November, and the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London - the
plan outlined in The Project has been overwhelmingly
successful.
Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of
group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect
postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a
multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate,
confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination
over the West. The following tactics and techniques are
among the many recommendations made in The Project:
~ Networking and coordinating actions between
likeminded Islamist organizations;
~ Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist
organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance
of "moderation";
~ Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations
to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood's
collective goals;
~ Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist
actions, as long as it doesn't conflict with shari'a law;
~ Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally,
nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term
ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or
provoke a lash back against Muslims;
~ Establishing financial networks to fund the work of
conversion of the West, including the support of full-time
administrators and workers;
~ Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing
collection and data storage capabilities;
~ Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring
Western media to warn Muslims of "international plots
fomented against them";
~ Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including
the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups,
and publishing "academic" studies, to legitimize Islamist
positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist
movements;
~ Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance
Islamist ideology throughout the world;
~ Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
~ Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals
and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals
so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the
West is constant;
~ Involving ideologically committed Muslims in
democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the
West, including government, NGOs, private organizations
and labor unions;
~ Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until
they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
~ Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for
eventual implementation;
~ Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all
levels, including the development of processes for conflict
resolution;
~ Instituting alliances with Western "progressive"
organizations that share similar goals;
~ Creating autonomous "security forces" to protect Muslims
in the West;
~ Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West
"in a jihad frame of mind";
~ Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world
through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and
~ technical and operational support;
~ Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for
Muslims;
~ Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and
the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for
global Islamic domination;
~ Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims
against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation
or coexistence with them;
~ Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
~ Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global
terror movement;
~ Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and
support jihad around the world;
In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was
drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities
in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects,
The Project is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of
Islamist action, whether by "moderate" Islamist organizations
or outright terror groups, over the past two decades.
At present, most of what is publicly known about The
Project is the result of Sylvain Besson's investigative work,
including his book and a related article published last
October in the Swiss daily, Le Temps, L'islamisme Ă* la
conquĂȘte du monde (Islamism and the Conquest of the
World), profiling his book, which is only available in a
French-language edition. At least one Egyptian newspaper,
Al-Mussawar, published the entire Arabic text of The
Project last November.
In the English-language press, the attention paid to
Besson's revelation of The Project has been almost
non-existent. The only mention found in a mainstream
media publication in the US has been as a secondary
item in an article in the Weekly Standard (February 20,
2006) by Olivier Guitta, The Cartoon Jihad. The most
extensive commentary on The Project has been by an
American researcher and journalist living in London,
Scott Burgess, who has posted his analysis of the
document on his blog, The Daily Ablution. Along with
his commentary, an English translation of the French
text of The Project was s erialized in December (Parts
I, II, III, IV, V, Conclusion). The complete English
translation prepared by Mr. Burgess is presented in its
entirety here with his permission.
The lack of public discussion about The Project
notwithstanding, the document and the plan it outlines
has been the subject of considerable discussion
amongst the Western intelligence agencies. One US
counterterrorism official who spoke with Besson about
The Project, and who is cited in Guitta's Weekly
Standard ar ticle, is current White House terrorism
czar, Juan Zarate. Calling The Project a Muslim
Brotherhood master plan for "spreading their political
ideology," Zarate expressed concerns to Besson
because "the Muslim Brotherhood is a group that
worries us not because it deals with philosophical or
ideological ideas but because it defends the use of
violence against civilians."
One renowned international scholar of Islamist
movements who also spoke with Besson, Reuven
Paz, talked about The Project in its historical context:
The Project was part of the charter of the international
organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was official
established on July 29, 1982. It reflects a vast plan which
was revived in the 1960s, with the immigration of
Brotherhood intellectuals, principally Syrian and Egyptians,
into Europe.
As Paz notes, The Project was drafted by the Muslim
Brotherhood as part of its rechartering process in 1982,
a time that marks an upswing in its organizational expansion
internationally, as well as a turning point in the alternating
periods of repression and toleration by the Egyptian
government. In 1952, the organization played a critical support
role to the Free Officers Movement led by Gamal Abdul Nasser,
which overthrew King Faruq, but quickly fell out of favor with the
new revolutionary regime because of Nasser's refusal to follow
the Muslim Brotherhood's call to institute an ideologically
committed Islamic state. At various times since the July
Revolution in 1952, the Brotherhood has regularly been banned
and its leaders killed and imprisoned by Egyptian authorities.
Since it was rechartered in 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood has
spread its network across the Middle East, Europe, and even
America. At home in Egypt, parliamentary elections in 2005
saw the Muslim Brotherhood winning 20 percent of the
available legislative seats, comprising the largest opposition
party block. Its Palestinian affiliate, known to the world as
HAMAS, recently gained control of the Palestinian Authority
after elections secured for them 74 of 132 seats in the
Palestinian Legislative Council. Its Syrian branch has historically
been the largest organized group opposing the Assad regime,
and the organization also has affiliates in Jordan, Sudan, and
Iraq. In the US, the Muslim Brotherhood is primarily represented
by the Muslim American Society (MAS).
Since its formation, the Muslim Brotherhood has advocated the
use of terrorism as a means of advancing its agenda of global
Islamic domination. But as the largest popular radical movement
in the Islamic world, it has attracted many leading Islamist
intellectuals. Included among this group of Muslim Brotherhood
intellectuals is Youssef Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born, Qatar-based
Islamist cleric.
As one of the leading Muslim Brotherhood spiritual figures and
radical Islamic preachers (who has his own weekly program on
Al-Jazeera), Qaradawi has been one of the leading apologists
of suicide bombings in Israel and terrorism against Western
interests in the Middle East. Both Sylvain Besson and Scott
Burgess provide extensive comparisons between Qaradawi's
publication, Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming
Phase, published in 1990, and The Project, which predates
Qaradawi's Priorities by eight years. They note the striking
similarities in the language used and the plans and methods
both documents advocate. It is speculated that The Project
was either used by Qaradawi as a template for his own work,
or that he had a hand in its drafting in 1982. Perhaps
coincidentally, Qaradawi was the fourth largest shareholder
in the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, the director of which, Youssef
Nada, was the individual in whose possession The Project was
found. Since 1999, Qaradawi has been banned from entering
the US as a result of his connections to terrorist organizations
and his outspoken advocacy of terrorism.
For those who have read The Project, what is most troubling is
not that Islamists have developed a plan for global dominance;
it has been assumed by experts that Islamist organizations and
terrorist groups have been operating off an agreed-upon set of
general principles, networks and methodology. What is startling
is how effectively the Islamist plan for conquest outlined in The
Project has been implemented by Muslims in the West for more
than two decades. Equally troubling is the ideology that lies
behind the plan: inciting hatred and violence against Jewish
populations around the world; the deliberate co-opting and
subversion of Western public and private institutions; its
recommendation of a policy of deliberate escalating confrontation
by Muslims living in the West against their neighbors and
fellow-citizens; the acceptance of terrorism as a legitimate option
for achieving their ends and the inevitable reality of jihad against
non-Muslims; and its ultimate goal of forcibly instituting the Islamic
rule of the caliphate by shari'a in the West, and eventually the
whole world.
If the experience over the past quarter of a century seen in Europe
and the US is any indication, the "Islamic researchers" who drafted
The Project more than two decades ago must be pleased to see
their long-term plan to conquer the West and to see the Green
flag of Islam raised over its citizens realized so rapidly,
efficiently
and completely. If Islamists are equally successful in the years to
come, Westerners ought to enjoy their personal and political
freedoms while they last.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The document on which the above article is based was
seized by the Swiss in a raid on an Islam connected bank and can be
found (in an English translation) here:
www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID={61829F93-7A81-4654-A2E8-F0A5E6DD3DC4}
[NOTE: The following English translation of The Project has been
prepared by Scott Burgess and was first published in serial form by
The Daily Ablution in December 2005 (Parts I, II, III, IV, V,
Conclusion). It is copyrighted and reprinted here with his permission.
It is based on the French text of The Project published in Sylvain
Besson, La conquĂȘte de l'Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes
(Paris: Le Seuil, 2005), pp. 193-205.]por las chupacabras todo, fuero de las chupacabras nada
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11-21-2007, 11:59 PM #3Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7
They are all terrorists in my book. And they need to take their stupid footbaths with them when they go.
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