For The Muslim Brotherhood, "Islam Is The Solution" (Longterm)

Brotherhood supporters in Tahrir Square last year

It's reassuring that new Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi has pledged that he'll honour Egypt's existing treaties, and doubly reassuring that the Egyptian military remains in control of the country's foreign policy.

Despite (or perhaps because of) his membership of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mursi's victory speech yesterday had the hallmarks of a moderate and a pragmatist.

But should we now sleep easily in our beds?

As Professor Barry Rubin observes in an article here:

'But what should we make specifically of this most recent event, the certification of al-Mursi’s victory? Certainly, it is another step forward for the Brotherhood toward capturing the most important Arab country.  A confident Hamas (which has now officially  joined the Muslim Brotherhood’s international network) has launched a war against Israel by firing dozens of cross-border rockets from the Gaza Strip and other means which the "international community" and democratic West are ignoring, to set one more terrible precedent in the war—one-sided as far as they’re concerned—with revolutionary Islamism.

Even now the "chimps" refuse to acknowledge the extremism of the Brotherhood, the most significant anti-American, antisemitic group in the entire world today. They ignore the fully documented fact that al-Mursi campaigned on a basis of hatred for America, fundamentally transforming Egypt into a Sharia state, going to war with Israel, and spreading revolution throughout the region. At this very moment, for example, the U.S. government is supporting a Brotherhood-led puppet group as the leadership of the Syrian uprising and arming its forces.

Yet within Egypt itself the outcome is not clear at all. There are as many options as there are rumors in Cairo. Remember that there is no Egyptian constitution, no parliament, and no timetable for electing a new parliament. The powers of the president are not defined....'

Regarding the Muslim Brotherhood itself, thirty years ago it outlined a twelve-point strategy ("The Project", which came to western attention in 2001) to "establish an Islamic government on earth".  To quote from an article by counter-terrorism expert Patrick Poole:

"Islam is the solution"

'What makes The Project so different from the standard "Death of America! Death to Israel!" and "Establish the global caliphate!" Islamist rhetoric is that it represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the "cultural invasion" of the West. Calling for the utilization of various tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and terrorism, The Project has served for more than two decades as the Muslim Brotherhood "master plan". As can be seen in a number of examples throughout Europe ... the plan outlined in The Project has been overwhelmingly successful.

Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West. The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:

Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;

    Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;

    Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;

    Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;

    Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;

    Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;

    Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;

    Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;

    Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;

    Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;

    Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;

    Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;

    Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;

    Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;

    Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;

    Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;

    Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;

    Creating autonomous "security forces" to protect Muslims in the West;

    Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West "in a jihad frame of mind";

    Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;

    Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;

    Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;

    Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;

    Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;

    Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement; [My emphasis]

    Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world'

Sleeping comfortably?  I'm not.