Opinion
Documentary Warns Against “Cultural Jihad” Operating Within the U.S.
By: Kevin Mooney
Commentary Staff Writer
05/13/09 10:58 PM EDT
Radical Islam is coming to America in subtle, sophisticated ways as part of a cultural jihad set up to undermine democratic traditions from within and to make way for a new theocratic state in the U.S.
This is the central message of “The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America” a documentary that was screened at the National Press Club Wednesday night. The film suggests that the current struggle between the west and international terrorist networks is actually the third in a series of jihads that date back to 630 AD and 1453 AD.
Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), serves as the narrator. He formed the organization in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks because he wanted moderate Muslims to have a platform to speak against radical acts committed in the name of their religion.
Although the threat of radical Islam is not as front and center in the U.S. as it is in Europe ,it could gain a signficiant foothold over the next few decades if certain cultural and political trends go unchecked, Jasser and other commentators warn.
The film focuses on the discovery of a Muslim Brotherhood memo called “a Grand Jihad Manifesto” that calls for the destruction of the U.S. and the establishment of a radical Islamist Theocracy in its place. This same document spells out the strategies and techniques that are folded into the “cultural jihad” now at work in the U.S. and in other western societies.
Jasser and other speakers featured in the documentary call on American Muslims to take a firm stand against radical elements and to resist the imposition of parallel societies where Sharia law holds sway over prevailing customs.
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