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Jihad is the duty of all Muslims. Whether by force or by democratic
means, jihad calls for the overthrow of secular governments and the
imposition of Islamic rule and law, or sharia. In this future Islamic
state other religions will, at best, be subjugated to Muslim
dominance. This type of jihad succeeded in Iran and Somalia and is
inching toward that same goal in numerous corners of the world
including Iraq, Thailand, Pakistan, and Algeria, to name a few.

In the West, for the moment, this totalitarian vision of Islamic
political and religious domination is unrealistic. Here, jihad puts on
a more palpable and patient mask. Through a vast network of
organizations and institutions, it slowly demands accommodation of
Islamic law using democracy and religious freedom as its greatest
allies. This stealth jihad is jihad nonetheless and in America it
finds its most fertile ground in Minnesota.

Minnesota has the largest Somali community in the country, mostly
refugees straight from camps in Kenya. In the past four years
employers and institutions have encountered consistent demands for
religious accommodation by Muslims. A few familiar examples will
suffice.

The conflict with taxicab drivers at the Minneapolis Airport in 2006
received national attention. The drivers, Somali Muslims in the main,
refused to take passengers carrying duty free alcohol or traveling
with dogs. At a Target store in St. Louis Park, Somali cashiers
refused to scan pork products and were “reassigned.” Minneapolis
Community and Technical College installed wudu fountains in campus
bathrooms for Muslims to ritually wash themselves before prayer.

More recently the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a publicly funded K-8
Muslim charter school, has come under further investigation by the
Minnesota Board of Education for its dubious practices of school-wide
Friday prayers and after school Koran lessons. This spring a school
official at TIZA attacked a local news reporter who showed up to
interview officials, an act of jihad of the violent kind. This May
five Somali women were fired from their jobs at a tortilla factory for
refusing to comply with new uniform policy requiring them to wear
pants. One employee claimed wearing pants would make her “feel naked.”
They are filing a religious discrimination lawsuit against the company
and are being represented by the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR), an organization with its own dubious ties to terrorism.

These stories make the news and add up to an alarming trend. How many
more employers automatically accommodate Muslim demands for fear of
being labeled “racist” or “Islamophobic” if they don’t?

Reactions range from outrage to humor, but these demands have become
all too common in Minnesota and should be taken seriously. Viewing
them as acts of spontaneous religiosity or harmless calls for
religious freedom misses the real goal behind this “peaceful” jihad.
Rather, these incidents, along with female head covering, are signs of
radical Islam’s penetration in Western Muslim communities.

Most Somalis came to Minnesota via Kenya where many were exposed to
the ideas of the radical Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood. The
radicalization of the community started there.

In her autobiography Infidel, Somali-born Muslim apostate Ayaan Hirsi
Ali tracks the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood to radicalize the
refugees in Nairobi. They gave talks, distributed religious tapes,
established schools, all the while preaching jihad, radicalism and
hatred of the West. Hirsi Ali herself became a member. She started
wearing head covering and called for the death of Salman Rushdie. She
later had to opportunity to personally apologize to him.

Somalis spread around the world, seeking asylum from a horrific civil
war waging in their country. Most brought with them the radical
Islamic message they heard from the Brotherhood in Nairobi. In Somalia
itself radical Islam has enjoyed an even greater success. Today
radicals rule the government and have imposed sharia complete with
lapidation, flogging and decapitation.

The Brotherhood operates in Minnesota through the Muslim American
Society housed, not coincidently, in the same building as TIZA. The
group has been tied most convincingly to instigating the taxicab
controversy at the airport. In addition, the Muslim Brotherhood has
links with the Muslim Student Association with a branch at the
University of Minnesota.

Founded in 1928 in Egypt, the Brotherhood has a massive organizational
and financial infrastructure, fueled largely by Saudi oil wealth.
There is scarcely a school, organization or mosque in Europe or the
United States that is not directly or indirectly tied to the group.

The Brotherhood spells out its plan for the West clearly in Priorities
of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase published in 1990 by the
spiritual leader of the group Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The final goal,
Qaradawi makes known, is to reestablish the Islamic caliphate in the
West.

This pitch makes for a hard sell in Minnesota. The Brotherhood,
therefore, has softened its tactics and rhetoric in recent decades
playing down its political goals of Islamic world domination and
carefully covering its links to terror and jihad. The group, however,
never rules out violence to achieve its goal.

In its stead they advocate dawa, or dialogue, whereby its
organizations act as legitimate religious institutions and the
rightful representatives of Muslim communities.

They participate in interfaith events and give educational seminars on
Islam and halfheartedly renounce terrorism, unless of course it is in
Israel. Local and national governments see them as legitimate and turn
to them as the community’s spokesmen, thereby ignoring truly moderate
Muslim voices who are bullied into silence.

Minnesota has passed through the first stage of the Brotherhood’s
blueprint as stated by Qaradawi: establishing schools, mosques and
organizations. We are currently witnessing the next stage, acquiring
sharia next to secular law for the Muslim community. In the final
stage, when numbers are sufficient and the time is right, Islam will
overthrow secular governments, by force or by democratic means, and
supplant them with Islamic hegemony and law.

Minnesota’s famous liberalism and well-entrenched political
correctness, with its fear to criticize, have given the Muslim
Brotherhood its best opportunity to start jihad and establish sharia
in America.

Ethnic diversity and religious pluralism make America great. But when
a religious group of any kind makes demands which fly in the face of
our well-established separation of church and state, it needs to be
stopped. Religious fanatics of all stripes are never happy with one
little concession. The Muslim Brotherhood makes its aim clear. If left
unchecked, it can take over a community and a nation with breathtaking
speed as it did in Somalia and is doing in Egypt.

Thus far this stealth jihad in Minnesota can’t stand up to the rule of
law. But if recent history is any indicator, another demand for
accommodation is just on the horizon. When it comes, it must be met
with similar legal efforts and a barrage of criticism from people who
believe in freedom. Just because there aren’t planes flying into
buildings doesn’t mean it isn’t jihad.