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The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
by Steven Merley, Read the Whole Article Here
Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute
The leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or Ikhwan) has said that its goal was and is jihad aimed at destroying the U.S. from within. The Brotherhood leadership has also said that the means of achieving this goal is to establish Islamic organizations in the U.S. under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the early 1960s, the Brotherhood has constructed an elaborate covert organizational infrastructure on which was built a set of public or “front” organizations. The current U.S. Brotherhood leadership has attempted to deny this history, both claiming that it is not accurate and at the same time that saying that it represents an older form of thought inside the Brotherhood. An examination of public and private Brotherhood documents, however, indicates that this history is both accurate and that the Brotherhood has taken no action to demonstrate change in its mode of thought and/or activity.
 
Ahmadullah Sais Niazi Arrested in Tustin CA Ran a Hawala with Qader Qudus Convicted of Money Laundering Heroin Trafficking Profits From Pakistan.
by Bill Warner, Read the Article Here
WBIPI.COM website
Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, 34, was taken into custody by agents of the Orange County Joint Terrorism Task Force about 7 a.m. at his home and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Arthur Nakazato in a Santa Ana courtroom Friday afternoon 2/20/2009. According to an affidavit for a search warrant, Niazi, who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, failed to reveal that his sister is married to Amin al-Haq, who has allegedly served as a bodyguard for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. A search warrant unsealed Friday afternoon alleges that Niazi and his wife, according to documents seized, used a "hawala" to transfer money from one country to another. Ahmadullah Sais Niazi in Tustin CA was working his Hawala with Qader Qudus and ZSQ Exchange in Freemont CA, Qader Qudus was convicted on money laundering linked to heroin trafficing in 2004.
 
Violent Non-state Actors and National and International Security
by Dr. Phil Williams, Read the Article Here
International Relations and Security Network
This case study explores the phenomenon of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and identifies the various sub-types and distinctive characteristics of each type. The report outlines the factors, developments and trends that have contributed to their emergence and addresses how the concept of the nation-state is being eroded by the fact that states no longer hold an absolute monopoly on the use of force within their sovereign territory. Additional consideration is also given to the potential implications of VNSAs providing alternative governance, as well as goods and services that the state is unable or unwilling to offer and provide.
 
Engineers of Jihad
by Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, Read the Whole Article Here
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the Muslim world, though not among the extremist Islamic groups which have emerged in Western countries more recently. We also find that engineers alone are strongly over-represented among graduates in violent groups in both realms. This is all the more puzzling for engineers are virtually absent from left-wing violent extremists and only present rather than over-represented among right-wing extremists. We consider four hypotheses that could explain this pattern. Is the engineers’ prominence among violent Islamists an accident of history amplified through network links, or do their technical skills make them attractive recruits? Do engineers have a ‘mindset’ that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism, or is their vigorous radicalization explained by the social conditions they endured in Islamic countries? We argue that the interaction between the last two causes is the most plausible explanation of our findings, casting a new light on the sources of Islamic extremism and grounding macro theories of radicalization in a micro-level perspective.
 
Crossroads in History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist Ideologies
by Jeffrey Imm, Read the Whole Article Here
In fighting Islamic supremacism, instead of an approach only based on tactical measures and efforts at clever twists of terminology, what if America had a true strategy that was instead based on the defense of our values on human equality and liberty? The true challenge of Islamic supremacism to America and the free world is not about Islam, Islamism, or terrorism, but about us. It is a historic challenge to determine whether we truly have the courage of our convictions on equality and liberty and we are willing to fight for these ideals, or if we will instead accept the continuing growth of anti-freedom ideologies here and around the world.
America and the West are at a critical crossroads in history in their faltering struggle with Islamic supremacist ideologies and Jihadist terror tactics. Increasingly, groups seek to halt any meaningful debate and halt any challenge to the ideology behind Jihad, and they seek to redirect such debate and action to focus only on the terrorist symptoms of such a supremacist ideology. Such diversionary efforts are being made by non-violent Islamic supremacist groups and activists, government officials, academics, and media commentators. The solution to this can be found in recognizing how Islamic supremacism (as any supremacist ideology) is opposed to our values, and in understanding America's historical experience in defeating other supremacist ideologies.
 
Islam and the Religious Wars of Our Time: Dar al Islam against the Dar al Harb
by G. Richard Jansen, Read the Whole Article Here
Our enemy sees this struggle as a religious war and refers to the United States with the word “Crusaders” bringing back into our consciousness a religious war between Islam and Christianity nearly a millennia ago. The West, for understandable reasons is slow to acknowledge that we are indeed in a religious war declared against Western Civilization by an Islamic movement based on the Koran and Islamic law . Western Civilization is based on Judeo-Christian morality, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment combined with the inheritance from classical Rome and Athens. This is a continuation of a 1400 year jihad against the Dar al Harb, the world of the infidels, by the Dar al Islam, the world of Islam. Unfortunately many in the West either fail to understand or refuse to understand that we are now involved in a continuation of a 1400 year jihad or holy war against the West that was for the most part in abeyance from 1683, when the Ottoman Empire’s failed to take Vienna, until the resurgence of Islamic jihad in the 20th century following the upheavals of the First World War.
 
Government Exhibits & Documents from the Holy Land Foundation Trial
HLF Exhibts & Docs
Between July and September 2007, prosecutors in the case against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and its top officials released scores of exhibits that provide unprecedented insight into the dizzying web of connections tying together a handful of alleged Hamas front groups that operated on American soil throughout the 1990s and beyond, serving as a central node in the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. network. NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz has reviewed this treasure trove of documents and highlighted select exhibits. Other material has also been included on this page for background purposes.
 


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