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TechnoratiA study by Washington-based Freedom House Center for Religious Freedom in 2005 analyzed Saudi-supplied textbooks given to children at U.S. mosques. The study found that the books contained texts and teachings about non-Muslims that could be considered hate speech. The report maintains that such teaching has the potential to radicalize young Americans Muslims.
Besides universities and mosques, U.S. prisons are also proving to be fertile ground to spread radical Islam. Islamic activists, imams, and prison chaplains are reportedly finding success in recruiting inmates by “feeding off the discontent and resentment” these men and women feel toward society.
Jasser wants Muslim Americans to speak out and against radical Islam.
“I think it’s important for American Muslims to lead this effort because if we don’t fix our problems from within the faith, this movement to create an Islamic state is going to ultimately affect our way of life,” Jasser said at the press conference.
“I think the only way to defeat this movement is for Muslims from within to say this is not Islam. This is theocracy.”
But sadly, instead of joining him many Muslims have labeled him an enemy or remained quiet.
“The saddest thing to me is this (the documentary) isn’t the project that was done by Muslims period. It should have been done just by Muslims,” Jasser said. “They (Muslim Americans) focus on victimology, and I think Americans are tired of hearing about victimology and want to hear solutions.”
Dr. Emir Caner, a former devout Muslim and now president of the Baptist college Truett-McConnell in Georgia, is doing his part to help promote the film among Christians. He has traveled across the country to screen the documentary to local pastors and talk about how Christians should respond to radical Islam.
Caner told The Christian Post after the screening that he hopes thousands of churches will screen the film to their own audience and Christians will be the “salt and light” and “prophetic voice” to alert the nation on the growing threat.
He acknowledges that Christians might be labeled Islamaphobes, but says, “We can’t coward to that and worry about those nomenclature given to us. We have to stand for what is right.”
He also joked being called an Islamaphobe is “sort of on a weekly basis for me being a former Muslim.”
"The Third Jihad" is released by The Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization that was founded in 2006 to educate Americans about issues of national security. In 2006, the organizations released the documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West."
The name of the film is based on the history of Islamic jihad. The first jihad took place between 622-750 AD (from Arabia to Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, India, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Portugal and Italy). The second jihad occurred between 1071 to 1683 AD when the Turks invaded the Balkans and all the way to Vienna. And now, the film suggests, the third jihad is the current conflict with radical Islam by America and Western Europe.
On the Web: www.radicalislam.org
