MUST READ: How the Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated the GOP

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“…I’m (Frank Gaffney)  here to talk to you a little bit about something that was brought up at the tail end, as you probably heard, of the first panel — second panel, I guess it was, before lunch.  And that was a question that I didn’t arrange for but I was delighted was asked, about Grover Norquist , and the role that Grover has been playing in the Republican Party and the conservative movement with respect specifically to the issues that we’ve been talking about, most recently on this panel — namely, trying to promote the agenda and the agents of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.

And if this is your first introduction to the subject, I’m going to try — again, hopefully we’ll have some audiovisual assistance here — to set the stage a little bit about what the Brotherhood is up to.  Again, you’ve heard some of this in the previous panels.  Andy McCarthy has written definitively on the subject, as has Robert Spencer.  They have some differences, as you heard.  But I think in terms of the stealth jihad, as I believe Robert coined the phrase for it; or the civilization jihad, as the Muslim Brotherhood has called it; I think there’s no difference between them or, for that matter, anybody who has really looked at this in any kind of rigorous way.

The fundamental proposition that I guess I think really sets the scene for everything else I’m going to tell you about, and that you must have clearly in your heads if you want to understand both the sort of micro problem that I want to talk to you about and the macro problem, is Sharia.  And one of the books that will be on offer tonight is one that Andy was helpful, enormously helpful in coauthoring, along myself and 17 other folks who’ve spent a good bit of their lives on national security issues, one fashion or another.

Several of them are very prominent, like Andy, Jim Woolsey , former Director of Central Intelligence ; Jerry Boykin , three-star general, retired former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence; Lt. General Ed Soyster, retired former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency — and a number of other lesser lights — but people who have thought seriously about this problem and come to the conclusion that whatever the true Islam is, there is only one Sharia.  And Sharia is absolutely, unalterably hostile to everything we hold dear.

And those who are seeking to impose it on others — which is, by the way, one of the obligations under Sharia — are our enemies, and will not be dissuaded from doing so by our efforts to accommodate them, appease them, or otherwise try to appear more submissive, which is — no matter what we justify it as or think of it as — how they see it.  We call it political correctness — fine.  We call it tolerance — fine.  We call it diversity, or sensitivity — fine, fine.  They call it submission.

And under the doctrine of Sharia, they are obliged to double down.  Because according to Sharia, according to the Koran — the foundational document of this whole thing — making them feel subdued is the whole point of the exercise.  A political, military, intelligence, legal doctrine — yes, with a patina of religion to it — but fundamentally, it is about power, not about faith.  And if you can sort of get your head around that basic concept, then it flows from it fairly easily that the purpose that jihad serves in promoting Sharia, in compelling others to be submissive to it, is central to that doctrine.

The key point — and again, both Andy and Robert have done incalculably important work in helping to make this as accessible to the rest of us as possible — is that this is a very practical program.  Drawing as it all does from the perfect Muslim’s model, namely Mohammad’s, it’s all about violence, if that’ll be effective.  And generally, it is.  Terrifying violence generally produces the desired results.

Unless you’re dealing with adversaries who happen to be stronger than you are, in which case it may be actually counterproductive.  Which is where the stealth jihad comes in.  If you are a Sharia-adherent Muslim, you are still obliged to engage in jihad, even if it might be hazardous to your health — not just to be a shahid, but just even trying to support jihad in the violent sense.

You have two responsibilities in that circumstance.  One is to engage in this stealthy kind of jihad, as Mohammed himself did — to work towards achieving the same ends, the same ends, of the triumph of Sharia and, ideally, the governance of a caliph who will rule in accordance to it worldwide, through stealthy means, through what are sometimes called nonviolent means, but that are really, practically speaking, pre-violent.

Because in the end, once you’ve changed the correlation of forces — to use an old Soviet metaphor — once you’ve achieved enough power that you can use violence, well, Mohammed’s example was you’re supposed to do that, go back to that.  Use the violent.  Because it will effectively make them feel subdued, and hopefully keep them subdued.  Okay?

So this is really sort of the crux of the phenomenon we’re up against worldwide.  A lot of violent jihadism by Sharia-adherent Muslims.  And then, in places like Baroness Cox’s Britain, elsewhere in Europe, elsewhere in the free world — Canada, Australia, here — you’re finding the pressure for jihad still going forward, but through these nonviolent or pre-violent techniques.  We happen to know a lot about this, thanks to an absolutely providential development.

You may have heard this story, but I’m going to regale you with it anyway, because it’s one of the great facts to know and tell.  In 2004, an alert Maryland transportation authority cop happened to observe a couple driving back and forth across a bridge up in my neck of the woods, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.  You may have been across it — it’s a beautiful span across an extraordinary body of water.  Typically, people admire the view.  Not infrequently, they’ll take pictures of it.

Well, the woman in the car with the man was taking pictures all right, except she was taking pictures of the structural supports of the bridge, which the police officer happened to notice and thought didn’t look right.  As it happened, she was in cover, which might have been a clue.  But then, that would be racial profiling, wouldn’t it?

(Laughter)

He pulled them over, ran their IDs, and discovered that the gentleman driving — a fellow by the name of Ismael Elbarasse — was wanted on a material witness arrest warrant out of Chicago in connection with Hamas fundraising, which got the FBI a search warrant to go into their home — again, in my neck of the woods, in Annandale, Virginia — about 20 minutes, on a very good day, from our seat of government.  They went top to bottom and, lo and behold, in the bottom, discovered a secret subbasement, in which were 80 banker boxes filled with the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.  Yeah.

What was so providential about that, of course, was these documents helped provide incredibly detailed information that was then used in the trial, conducted down in Dallas, Texas in 2007 — it resulted in a mistrial initially — then in 2008, called the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the largest terrorism financing trial in US history.  And as a result of what was introduced, by the way, uncontested into evidence in that trial, we have some powerful insights into who the Muslim Brotherhood are in the United States, what their mission is here, how they are proceeding to execute that mission — what, as Andy called in his book, a kind of grand jihad.

And this is the mission statement of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Robert quoted part of it for you a moment ago — a kind of grand jihad in destroying — eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, 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.

Now, I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound too friendly, or too secular, or too nonviolent.  And yet, this is how the top intelligence officer of the United States government — another retired three-star general by the name of Lt. General Jim Clapper, now the Director of National Intelligence — characterized the Muslim Brotherhood in testimony to the United States House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.  Now, you could say he misspoke.

(Laughter)

Except he was reading from a prepared text in response to questions that they obviously knew would be coming.  Because at about this time in February, all hell was breaking loose in Egypt.  And even then, it was obvious that one of the prime beneficiaries of that was likely to be who?  The Muslim Brotherhood, right?  So people asked; he had a ready answer.

It’s a largely secular group, he said, it’s quite heterogeneous.  It’s eschewed violence, it’s condemned al-Qaeda.  It’s really mostly given to charitable works.

Well, the short response to this is — not.  As the director of the FBI, who happened to be sitting next to Jim Clapper, said in a polite way…

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