By Raymond Ibrahim —— Bio and Archives March 17, 2017
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It is the Militant Islamists who are our adversary. They represent an immediate threat to the national security of the United States. They must not be confused with Islamists [p.2].This theme, which the author often expresses in convoluted language--at one point urging readers to appreciate "the divisions between Militant Islamists and between Militant Islamists and Islamists" (p.176)--permeates the book. In reality, all Islamists share the same ultimate goal of global Islamic hegemony. They differ only in methodology--not in their view of us as the enemy to be crushed. "Non-militant Islamists," chief among them the Muslim Brotherhood, see incremental infiltration and subtle subversion of infidel Western states as more effective than outright terrorism, as one notorious Brotherhood memo clearly states. 1 We've already seen the outcome of cooperating with "Non-militant Islamists" during the Arab Spring. The Obama administration cast aside decades of standard U.S. policy and support for secular Arab autocrats and made cozy with the Muslim Brotherhood. What followed is well-known: the Arab Spring quickly turned into the "Islamic Winter." This culminated with the rise of the Islamic State, in large part due to Obama's policies, both active (aiding Islamic terrorists by portraying them as "freedom fighters" in Libya and Syria) and inactive (pulling all U.S. forces out of Iraq despite the warnings and disposing of a 30-year ally of the U.S., the secularist Mubarak, for the Brotherhood in Egypt).
Time will tell whether the next [American presidential] administration will remain willfully ignorant of the nature of its jihadi enemy--which is fatal in war according to Sun Tzu's ancient dictum, "know your enemy"--or whether reality will trump political correctness.The pun remains truer than ever: If the recommendations of Militant Islamist Ideology reflect the views of Trump's new national security advisor on U.S. security and Islam--especially this notion of cooperating with "Nonmilitant Islamists"--then it seems we are going right back to being "willfully ignorant" of reality.
"The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan [meaning Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
"Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack."
"Terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit undereducated and disenfranchised people to their cause. Understanding terrorist ideology is the first and may also be the most important step in ensuring national and international security against the threat that these organizations pose.
Youssef Aboul-Enein's book is an excellent starting point in that connection.Militant Islamist Ideology deserves a wide readership among all those concerned with the problem of transnational terrorism, their ideology, and our efforts to combat those organizations that pose a serious threat to current and future generations of Muslims and non-Muslims alike."
RAYMOND IBRAHIM (RaymondIbrahim.com) is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert. His books include Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings, translations, and observations have appeared in a variety of publications, including Fox News, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard; scholarly journals, including the Almanac of Islamism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, and Middle East Review of International Affairs; and popular websites, such as American Thinker, the Blaze, Bloomberg, Christian Post, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, the Inquisitr, Jihad Watch, NewsMax, National Review Online, PJ Media, VDH’s Private Papers, and World Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several anthologies and been translated into various languages.