Even Americans knowledgeable about Europe's growing accommodation tothe totalitarian ideology known alternatively as Islamism, jihadism orIslamofascism tend smugly to believe the same thing can't happen here.Think again.
Every day, new evidence appears of similar actsof submission — the Islamists call it "dhimmitude" — on the part of theU.S. government, judges, the press and leading corporations. Eurabia,meet the United States of Amerabia.
On May 4, an ominousalarm was sounded in a Pajamas Media column by Youssef Ibrahim, aformer New York Times reporter. Mr. Ibrahim is an astute critic of theIslamists' steady, tireless and increasingly effective efforts toimpose — on Muslims and non-Muslims alike — the repressivetheo-political-legal agenda they call Shariah law. He warned that "Inthe very real war on terror, a noisy squabble over 'fighting them thereso we don't have to fight them here' clouds a simple truth: namely,that 'they' are here already. Indeed, Islamists are busy constructing awing of jihad in America's backyard."
Among the mostworrisome of the "they" now operating inside the U.S. are various frontorganizations systematically established by the Islamist organizationknown as the Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood. During last year's federaltrial of the Holy Land Foundation on terrorism-financing charges, thegovernment introduced into evidence the names of many scores of suchIkhwan fronts. Identified also as unindicted co-conspirators werevirtually every one of the most prominent Muslim-Americanorganizations, including notably the Council on American-IslamicRelations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and theMuslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
Prosecutors alsopresented what amounts to a mission statement. According to amemorandum by the group in 1991: "The process of settlement [of Islamin the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process, with allthe word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work inAmerica is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying Westerncivilization from within and 'sabotaging' their miserable house bytheir hands and the hands of the believers."
To be clear,this is not the agenda of all Muslims, certainly not all AmericanMuslims. Yet, we cannot safely ignore the fact that Muslim Brotherhoodfollowers are among those who do have such a goal — let alone allow our "hands" to contribute to its realization.
Writingabout this Brotherhood manifesto in the Dallas Morning News lastSeptember, columnist Rod Dreher observed: "The entire 18-page platformoutlines a plan for the long haul. It prescribes the MuslimBrotherhood's comprehensive plan to set down roots in civil society. Itbegins by both founding and taking control of American Muslimorganizations, for the sake of unifying and educating the U.S. Muslimcommunity — this to prepare it for the establishment of a globalIslamic state governed by Shariah."
Unfortunately, in thelast 17 years, the Ikhwan has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams.Groups like CAIR, ISNA and MPAC made great strides in what Mr. Ibrahimcalls "the common task [of] instill[ing] the notion amongArab-Americans or European immigrant communities of Muslim countriesthat they are not part of secular multicultural societies." Brotherhoodfronts have also penetrated and exercised enormous influence over U.S.government agencies responsible for understanding and countering theIslamist threat.
Space limitations preclude more than a handful of examples: The FBIallows CAIR to provide "sensitivity training" for its agents. U.S.intelligence actively recruits at ISNA and other Ikhwan frontconferences. One of ISNA's highly placed admirers, Pentagon deputychief Gordon England's consigliere Hisham Islam, was allowed to purgethe Joint Chiefs of Staff's Islamist expert, Steven Coughlin, forwarning against such practices.
This astounding act of dhimmitudeconfirms Steve Coughlin's thesis: The enemy has so thoroughly gotteninside our decision-making as to preclude us from understanding histrue nature and threat doctrine. By affording the Ikhwan such anopportunity, we have rendered this country, as a practical matter,incapable of countering our Islamist foes abroad — let alone here athome.
Fortunately, a courageous legislator, Rep. Sue Myrick,North Carolina, has come forward to challenge the emerging Amerabia.She has unveiled a 10-point program that calls for, among other things:investigations of Ikhwan penetrations of our prison and militarychaplain corps; an inquiry into the legitimacy of CAIR's tax-exemptstatus; corrective actions with respect to numerous ill-advisedpolicies vis-a-vis Saudi Arabia; and addressing the seditious nature ofIslamist threats to our government and people.
For herexemplary leadership and determination to resist national dhimmitude,this column recognizes Mrs. Myrick with its coveted "Horatius (or, forthe first time Horatia) at the Bridge" award, for herwillingness — like the legendary Roman — to take on singlehandedly theenemy hordes and try to save her country.
We hope she will add others to her list, and secure the broadest possible support for her efforts.
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