Terrorist attacks that involve bombings and shootings are just one component of the jihad, or holy war, that Islamists are actively waging against infidels all over the world. Another component of that jihad consists of nonviolent initiatives which can be classified as stealth (or “soft”) jihad, whose goal is the imposition of Islamic law, Sharia, over every region of the earth by non-confrontational means. Under the banners of “tolerance” and “civil rights,” stealth jihadists introduce, in piecemeal fashion, elements of Sharia into Western societies and then demand that non-Muslims make allowance for those elements. Moreover, stealth jihadists smear those who dare to discuss the negative aspects of Sharia (and Islam) as “racists” and “Islamophobes.”
Some examples of how stealth jihad has made inroads into U.S. and Western culture include the following:
Ultimately, stealth jihadists seek — by exploiting the West’s respect for minority rights and cultures — to transform pluralistic societies into Islamic states and to gradually sweep away Western notions of legal equality, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, and more. Giuseppe Bernardini, a Roman Catholic Archbishop in Turkey, notes that Saudi “petro-dollars” have been used “not to create work in the poor North African or Middle Eastern countries, but to build mosques and cultural centers in Christian countries with Islamic immigration.” This “program of expansion and re-conquest,” says Bernardini, was given voice by a Muslim leader who had candidly told him: “Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you.”
The stealth jihad plan for the West was enunciated by a top Muslim Brotherhood operative in the United States, Mohamed Akram, who explained that the 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 Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” Akram’s directive came in a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum from May 22, 1991, entitled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.” In that document, Akram laid out a plan to conquer and Islamize the United States — as a stepping stone toward the larger goal of ultimately establishing “the global Islamic state.”
In America, Akram explained, it would be extremely difficult to promote Islam by means of terror attacks. Thus the Brotherhood’s priority would be to “settle” Islam and the Brotherhood movement in the United States — by way of Islamic organizations posing as civil-rights groups — so that the Muslim faith would be incrementally accepted and “enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country.”
– Adapted from “Stealth Jihad,” Jamie Glazov’s interview with Robert Spencer (December 2, 2008), and “What Americans Need to Know about Jihad,” by Robert Spencer (2007).
Islamist Infiltration of American Politics
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Radical Islam’s Infiltration of the Conservative Movement
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Global Project for Palestine” (1982)
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s “General Strategic Goal” for North America (1991)
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The “Muslim Minority Affairs” Agenda
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Stealth Jihad (selected portions of text)
By Robert Spencer
2008
The Hijra
By Janet Levy
August 16, 2009
Stealth Jihad: How Islam Is Infiltrating Your Neighborhood
By Doug Giles
November 22, 2008
Sharia’s Sinister Smiles
By Raymond Ibrahim
December 8, 2011
Why Muslim Demands for Headscarves Are Exaggerated
By Raymond Ibrahim
July 7, 2011
The Islamists’ Multi-Staged Strategy for Victory Over the West
By Ryan Mauro
January 21, 2013
BOOK:
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs
By Robert Spencer
VIDEOS:
Stealth Jihad: What It Is and Why It Matters
By Robert Spencer
August 7, 2009
Radical Islam: Stealth Jihad Against America and Western Civilization
By Pamela Geller
2013
Stealth Jihad
By Jamie Glazov
December 2, 2008