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Here's an article by Daniel Pipes that I missed yesterday. Daniel Pipes, like Steven Emerson, and others, is someone I always pay attention to. I just wish more of our govt leaders would listen. (Excerpts below, but worth reading in total at the link.)

The Islamic States of America?

The hardest thing for Westerners to understand is not that a war with militant Islam is underway but that the nature of the enemy’s ultimate goal [sic]. That goal is to apply the Islamic law (the Shari‘a) globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace the Constitution with the Qur’an...

The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam.

The receptivity indeed was greater, but still the idea of an Islamist takeover remains unrecognized in establishment circles – the U.S. government, the old media, the universities, the mainline churches.

Therefore, reading “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America,” in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 19 caused me to startle. It’s a long analysis that draws on an exclusive interview with Ahmed Elkadi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader in the United States during 1984-94, plus other interviews and documentation. In it, the authors (Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe, and Laurie Cohen) warily but emphatically acknowledge the Islamists’ goal of turning the United States into an Islamic state...

This Brotherhood approach is in keeping with my observation that the greater Islamist threat to the West is not violence – flattening buildings, bombing railroad stations and nightclubs, seizing theaters and schools – but the peaceful, legal growth of power through education, the law, the media, and the political system...

Even if the Muslim Brotherhood is not specifically associated with violence in the United States (as it has been in other countries, including Egypt and Syria), it is deeply hostile to the United States and must be treated as one vital component of the enemy’s assault force.

Over and over and over the Muslims primary goal is to inflict themselves into our politics, legal system and communities. Their growth has already taken root and like the spreading gene-modified grass problem, it flourishes and represents a challange that fills the ACLU's agenda for the next centry (if we last that long). Should we be attacked again, our only chance to alter their plans will be at that time and they better pray another attack never happens. American sentiment was great last attack. There are many rednecks and patriots who will NOT accept them killing us on our own turf once again and then them expecting us to accept them. Ain't gonna happen. They better be rethinking their role in our society if they shelter, condone or patronize with those who would harm us. We have laws concerning traitors and they need to be implemented.