REGISTER TODAY WCS18.COM CONSERVATIVEJUNEJOIN 8-9SUMMIT. 2018 US! WESTERN Principled Ideas from the Centennial Institute Publisher, Dr. Donald W. Sweeting Volume 10, Number 5 • May 2018 Editor, Jeff Hunt UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE THREAT, has this patina of religiosity, but is really about political, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD military, and legal instructions that every faithful Muslim AND JIHAD is supposed to follow. Indeed, it is supposed to govern all aspects of their lives. We need to provide clarity about the Frank Gaffney, WCS17 fact that not all Muslims embrace sharia, particularly in this country. One of my personal friends Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, put together a reform manifesto that explicitly calls sharia “man-made law.” For those who don’t embrace his view and who instead embrace sharia, that is called apostasy, and it can get you killed. Among those who believe that is the case are unfortunately those who are the authorities of Islam. Again not all Muslims, but a lot, and most especially those who call the shots in the faith. Clarity about sharia’s role in all of this is critical, because if we understand what it is, we have a chance to do something about it. If we Frank Gaffney, Founder, President, and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, speaking at recognize it as a seditious program, we actually have laws the 2017 Western Conservative Summit. of defeating it. Ronald Reagan always understood and reminded us that On the other hand, if we continue to indulge in the idea every generation faces an existential threat to freedom. that this is all a faith, and a faith by definition in our In 1980, that threat was the Soviet Union, and he Constitution is protected, we’re toast. We cannot possibly ran on a platform of defeating allow this to continue to metastasize in our country without Soviet Communism. He received a very deleterious effects. Clarity mandate to do that, and he executed Bush called it terrorism, about what sharia requires has to the strategy to do that. be another part of a plan for victory Obama called it violent over Jihad because Jihad is what Today, we have another president is obliged of followers of sharia. who sees clearly a similar existential extremism, and Donald Everybody who gets that as their threat in our time. Donald Trump Trump has used this god-directed program understands has called it Radical Islamic they must participate in one way Terrorism, and he has pledged to phrase; ‘Radical or another in Jihad to advance eradicate it from the face of the the objective. earth. He needs, as did Reagan, a Islamic Terrorism.’ strategy for doing that, and that is We need clarity about what Jihad what I will share with you today. entails, too. The violent part about this is obvious and easy to get as a problem, right? We need clarity about what we’re up against. We’ve heard Unfortunately, it is very efficient, and that is why it is the all kinds of euphemisms to this point. Bush called it preferred means of advancing sharia’s supremacist agenda. terrorism, Obama called it, uncharacteristically, violent extremism, and Donald Trump has used this phrase; Frank Gaffney is an American counter-jihad expert and the founder and ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism.’ president of the Center for Security Policy. Under Mr. Gaffney’s leadership, the Center has been recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating Whatever you call it, it is a doctrine its adherents describe as analyses of foreign and defense policy matters. sharia. About 10 percent of this body of law has to do with Centennial Institute sponsors research, events, and publications to enhance pietistic practice. That’s not the problem. The problem is public understanding of the most important issues facing our state and nation. By proclaiming Truth, we aim to foster faith, family, and freedom, that the rest of it has to do with a totalitarian ideology that teach citizenship, and renew the spirit of 1776. It can be performed by groups or individuals, but don’t was written by one of the top Muslim Brotherhood buy anybody telling you that individuals are somehow lone operatives in the United States in 1991 as a report back wolves. In fact, they are simply performing what they can to the mother ship in Egypt to tell them about how do if they don’t happen to be with a group, or at least at the splendidly things were going with their civilization Jihad moment with a group. They may be inspired by a group, in America. This is the most important single book but what they are for sure inspired by is the doctrine of on the subject of Jihad, certainly in America. We were sharia. They are simply performing individual Jihad which never supposed to know about it, but it confirms their is what they must do if nothing is available. mission, “destroying Western civilization from within Another form of Jihad is what’s known as Hijra. That can be by their hands and the hands of the believers, so defined as immigration or colonization or even an invasion. that Allah’s religion is made victorious over all When you recognize that boatloads of these people have other religions.” been filling the Mediterranean to flood Europe with mostly I’m sure you agree with me that that mission disqualifies unaccompanied military-aged young men, invasion is no them from being the influential group they have been in stretch to define the term Hijra. They are changing the our government for some time now, not just the Obama demographics of the world through outbreeding. Just look years, but the Bush years as well. Again, we need clarity what is happening to Europe. about what the Muslim Brotherhood is. Some would have Another form of Jihad is material support for those who us believe on one side is the enemy, the violent extremists, as are engaging in the effort to impose sharia on the rest of Barack Obama called them. On the other are the Muslims us. It is called Zakat. You might think of it as tithing, but who naturally eschew violence because they are practicing a that’s not a direct comparison because Zakat is obligatory. religion of peace. So they would have you believe. It is one of the five pillars of Islam that you must make The Muslim Brotherhood has a theory about who charitable contributions. Think of it as a tax of anywhere those violent extremists are. Can you guess? It’s us! It’s from an eighth to as much as a half of conservatives, tea party activists, what every sharia adherent, faithful The Muslim returning veterans, gun owners. The Muslim must give for the Jihad. idea is, don’t look over here where You might remember when Brotherhood is the threat is, look at there where president Obama spoke in Cairo, engaged in Jihad, it’s assuredly not. This is the kind he spoke in a place where the of paradigm that Donald Trump Muslim brotherhood operates, and make no mistake needs to address head on. Instead of he spoke about his commitment to violence being the fault line, we must facilitate Muslims in America being about it. identify the sharia adherents. The able to make Zakat. As a former population of Muslims who think federal prosecutor, Andy McCarthy has pointed out that sharia is the way may not understand all of its particulars, the impediment to Zakat in the United States is their but they think that it is true. They are on the side of our prohibition on material support for terrorism. What was implacable enemies because that is what sharia requires. he thinking? It’s their duty to engage in Jihad to accomplish sharia’s victory worldwide. The Muslim Brotherhood is engaged in Jihad, make no mistake about it. They are known as Hamas and they On the other side of that line are Muslims who don’t want will engage in the violent Jihad where they can. They are to live under sharia. It’s understandable. It’s awful, especially active around the world, in Palestine, and in this country. if you are female, homosexual, in a religious minority, or They operate what they call civilization Jihad. I reference a anybody not the elite. So, on which side of the fault line booklet, “An Explanatory Memorandum from the Archives is the Muslim Brotherhood? The wrong side, and that’s of the Muslim Brotherhood in America”. This document a problem. CENTENNIAL REVIEW is published monthly by the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University. The authors’ views are not necessarily those of CCU. Designer, Justin Jones. Illustrator, Benjamin Hummel. 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