On Tuesday night, I had an opportunity to address theO'Reilly Factor's audience on a matter of immense importance: the threat posed to America by not only the violent form of jihad but by its stealthy counterpart - what its prime practitioner, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan), calls "civilization jihad."
As it happened, Eric Bolling was substituting for Bill during our conversation about the blindspot too many in academia, journalism and the U.S. government have when it comes to the sort of non-violent - or, more accurately, pre-violent - jihad being waged against the United States by the likes of Ground Zero Mosque Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf.
Watch the clip below:
The news peg for this segment was Rauf's announcement that he is going to begin next month a nationwide tour of college campuses and other venues. The ostensible goal is to promote "understanding" and "tolerance" through speeches, interviews and interfaith dialogue. In fact, the real purpose is dawa - the systematic, highly disciplined and aggressive effort to proselytize and recruit adherents to shariah. Dawa is the engine behind what the Ikhwan has dubbed the "process of settlement," a term used to describe the phased insinuation and ultimate triumph of shariah in lands where it has yet to be established. Dawa is the precursor to jihad.
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