The Cartoon Jihad (The Muslim Brotherhood's project for dominating the West)

The Weekly Standard ^ | 2/20/2006 | Olivier Guitta

[LM_Guy]

IT IS NOW ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the recent murderous protests over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last September were anything but spontaneous. The actions of Islamist agitators and financiers have deliberately drummed up rage among far-flung extremists otherwise ignorant of the Danish press. The usual suspects--the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran--have profited from the spread of the disorders, and even the likes of tiny Kuwait has reportedly offered funds to spur demonstrations throughout France. More important, however, and perhaps less widely understood, the cartoon jihad is tailor-made to advance the Muslim Brotherhood's long-term worldwide strategy for establishing Islamic supremacy in the West.

As first reported by the Italian terrorism expert Lorenzo Vidino on the Counterterrorism Blog, one of Denmark's leading Islamists, Imam Ahmed Abu-Laban, led a delegation late last year to visit influential figures in the Muslim world. He took with him a dossier of cartoons, both those that had been published and others, much more offensive, of dubious provenance. One place he took his road show was Qatar, where he briefed Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and a star of Al Jazeera.

Even after the riots began, Abu-Laban continued his meddling. On February 4, he told Islamonline.net that Danish demonstrators were going to burn Korans in the streets of Copenhagen, a falsehood that nevertheless added fuel to the fire.

Abu-Laban's extremist connections are well established. A Palestinian who is close to the Muslim Brotherhood, he was expelled from the United Arab

Emirates in 1984 for his fiery sermons and denunciations of local leaders. According to Vidino, he served as translator and assistant to Talaal Fouad Qassimy, top leader of the Egyptian terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya, in the mid-1990s. During the Iraq war, he called the Danish prime.....

[LM_Guy]

It becoming more and more clear what we are facing, why can't our Govt Leaders wakeup ?

[dead]

All the islametards managed with this little excercise was to knock a whole bunch of willfully-blind fence-sitters firmly into the "Islam is a nutty violent cult that must be dealt with" side of the divide.

[sarasota]

Our gov't is awating another wake up call. The snooze button is working well for them just now. Think they have a plan of retaliation for the next attack?

[Fzob]

Two concept we in the West need to understand. To the Islamist these are not concepts but goals.

Dar al-Islam House of Submission

Dar al-Islam (Arabic: literally house of submission) is a term widely used in the Islamic world to refer to those lands under Muslim government(s). In the conservative tradition of Islam the world is divided into two components: dar al-Islam, the house of submission or the house of God, and dar al-Harb, the house of war; the home of the infidels or unbelievers (Arabic: kufr). The terms are usually understood to refer, respectively, to those lands currently administered by Muslim governments and those administered by non-Muslim governments. The exact definitions of these territories can vary widely according to the viewer's concept of who is and is not a Muslim, and which governments are or are not Muslim in practice.

Dar al-Harb - House of terror

Dar al-Harb (Arabic: "house of war") is a term used in many Islamic countries to refer to those areas outside Muslim rule. In some conservative traditions of Islam the world is divided into two components: dar al-Islam, the "house of submission" or the "house of God", and dar al-Harb, the "house of war": the home of the infidels or unbelievers (Arabic: kufr). The terms are usually understood to refer, respectively, to those lands currently administered by Muslim governments and those administered by non-Muslim governments. The exact definitions of these territories can vary widely according to the viewer's concept of who is and is not a Muslim, and which governments are or are not Muslim in practice.

[2banana]

One of the few Western officials to have studied the document before the publication of Besson's book is Juan Zarate, named White House counterterrorism czar in May 2005 and before that assistant secretary of the treasury for terrorist financing. Zarate calls "The Project" the Muslim Brotherhood's master plan for "spreading their political ideology," which in practice involves systematic support for radical Islam. Zarate told Besson, "The Muslim Brotherhood is a group that worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas but because it defends the use of violence against civilians."

"The Project" is a roadmap for achieving the installation of Islamic regimes in the West via propaganda, preaching, and, if necessary, war. It's the same idea expressed by Sheikh Qaradawi in 1995 when he said, "We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not by the sword but by our Dawa [proselytizing]."

Thus, "The Project" calls for "putting in place a watchdog system for monitoring the [Western] media to warn all Muslims of the dangers and international plots fomented against them." Another long-term effort is to "put in place [among Muslims in the West] a parallel society where the group is above the individual, godly authority above human liberty, and the holy scripture above the laws."

A European secret service agent interviewed by Besson explains that "the project is going to be a real danger in ten years: We'll see the emergence of a parallel system, the creation of 'Muslim Parliaments.' Then the slow destruction of our institutions will begin."

One point emphasized in "The Project" is that Muslims must constantly work to support Islamic Dawa and all the groups around the globe engaged in jihad. Also vital is to "keep the Ummah [the Muslim community] in a jihad frame of mind" and--no surprise here--"to breed a feeling of resentment towards the Jews and refuse any form of coexistence with them." (On February 2, At-Tajdid, a Moroccan Islamist daily close to the Brotherhood, explained to its readers that the Danish cartoons were "a Zionist provocation aimed at reviving the conflict between the West and the Muslim nation.")

Coming soon to your neighborhood...

[Sometimes A River]

So when is the Weekly Standard going to call for an end to Muslim immigration to the US and the West?

[FearNoMan]

Islam is cult. Anyone who can understand the meaning of the word truth, understands this implicitly.

[Earthdweller]

"The usual suspects--the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran--have profited from the spread of the disorders, and even the likes of tiny Kuwait has reportedly offered funds to spur demonstrations throughout France."

[sarasota]

Can you say "cartoon recruiting tool"?

[kokonut]

Guess what? Muslims have their own superhero comic book called "The 99" - A Muslim's Own Superhero Comic Book
More slouching toward dhimmitude.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/99-muslims-own-superhero-comic-book.html

[RS]

"The actions of Islamist agitators and financiers have deliberately drummed up rage among far-flung extremists otherwise ignorant of the Danish press."

Well Duh .... Do you think they don't know a good think when it is handed to them ? This has allowed them to recuit thousands of disposable minions, to cause more trouble for us, use up more of our resources and make it harder for us to track THEM down and dispose of them.

... and some here think it's a good idea to call for more cartoons ... one almost has to wonder which side they are on ?

[thebullhorn]

I am trying to find images of the Nigeria cartoon riots. All the websites I see articles in recycle photos from Pakistan. Has anyone seen pictures from Nigeria?

[MajorityOfOne]

Did anyone read Tunku Varidanian's piece on this in Friday's Wall Street Journal? That was one heartbreaking bit of editorial wussiness.

[wildcatf4f3]

any one hear from our traitor J Rockefeller lately? Still lying low eh?

[Ouderkirk]