Interesting details from a new book published in France.
A new book published by Le Seuil in Paris in October may further Western understanding of this reality. Written by the Swiss investigative reporter Sylvain Besson and not yet available in English, it publicizes the discovery and contents of a Muslim Brotherhood strategy document entitled “The Project,” hitherto little known outside the highest counterterrorism circles. Besson’s book, La conquête de l’Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (The Conquest of the West: The Islamists’ Secret Project), recounts how, in November 2001, Swiss authorities acting on a special request from the White House entered the villa of a man named Yusuf Nada in Campione, a small Italian enclave on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano in Switzerland. Nada was the treasurer of the Al Taqwa bank, which allegedly funneled money to al Qaeda. In the course of their search of Nada’s house, investigators stumbled onto “The Project,” an unsigned, 14-page document dated December 1, 1982.
But, what is “The Project”?
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.”
Conspiracy theory? A look into the future?
You decide …
Miriam Farhat aka Umm Nidal, the newly elected Hamas member of the PA and proud mother of three shahids who helped pay for mama’s election campaign posthumously used the expression “completing project” in explaining the political ambitions of Hamas along side of the “religious” (i.e.: terror bombing). So, I’m not so sure that this is all that secret among Islamists. It seems to be secret only to the gormless idiots who don’t recongize the most reactionary, repressive and imperialistic force to come along since the collapse of the USSR, one that actually may exceed the communist threat.
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The following short Churchill quotation is exactly what a whole genre of books (e.g. Bat Yeor’s EURABIA, Irshad Manji’s THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM, and Bruce Bawer’s WHILE EUROPE SLEPT) needs as a common invocation. Pass it on.
WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM*- SPEECH IN 1899! 106 years ago:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism (Islam) lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
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* Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pp. 248-50) (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
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