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TechnoratiWASHINGTON – The face of radical Islam is no longer limited to gun-toting, bomb-strapping, plane-hijacking terrorists. Now it takes on more subtle forms.
It infiltrates the highest echelon of American education; recruits the social rejects in U.S. prisons; and teaches American Muslim children to hate infidels, warns a new documentary that features a devout Muslim American, a former terrorist, and some of the nation’s top national security experts.
“This is not a film about Islam,” clarifies the documentary "The Third Jihad" at the onset of the film. “It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radicals. This film is about them.”
Over the course of 72-minutes, the film pulls together TV footage aired on Islamic broadcasting stations, secret documents that shows U.S. Muslim groups’ connection to terror organizations, and interviews with former CIA, FBI analysts and radical Islam experts to introduce the concept of “cultural jihad” – a new jihad method that uses the laws and rights of a society to undermine the freedoms it offers and to overthrow its social system.
The film focuses on the FBI’s discovery in 2003 of a 15-page document believed to be a “Grand Jihad Manifesto” authored by the Muslim Brotherhood in North America. The document outlines goals and strategies on how to infiltrate and dominate America from within. It also identifies Muslim organizations, previously thought to be moderate by the U.S., which it could work with to achieve its goal of weakening western culture and impose sharia (Islamic) law in North America.
“There is an ideology we are fighting. You can’t say that it is all Al Qaeda,” said Dr. M. Zuhidi Jasser, who was the film’s narrator, at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. “There is Hamas, Hezbollah, there is Islamic jihad, groups in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Taliban, the Iranian theocratic movements, and the only thing they share is not the tactic but the goal and the end, which is the establishment of the Islamic state.”
Jasser is founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), an organization founded to promote the combination of the Muslim faith with American values of democracy, freedom and liberty. He is a devout practicing Muslim American who was a former physician to the U.S. Congress and served in the U.S. Navy.
In addition to partnering with “moderate” U.S. Muslim groups, extremists are also carrying out their cultural jihad in America through the U.S. education system, the film asserts.
Saudi Arabia has given huge endowments to the Middle East Studies departments at the nation’s top universities such as Harvard and Georgetown University, which alone have received $20 million each. The students at these schools will be America’s future leaders and diplomats, the film explains, and will make future decisions based on their “slanted and radical” Saudi interpretation of Islam.
The form of Islam practiced by Saudi Arabia is Wahhabism, considered the most fundamentalist and extreme out of all the versions. The Saudi legal system based on Wahhabism calls for the hands of thieves to be cut off and for adulterers to be killed.
But not only is Saudi Arabia teaching its Islamic worldview at higher education institutions, it is also disseminating its extreme-version of Islam in mosques across the U.S. to impressionable youths. Continue >>
