"The Project"

FrontPage Magazine brings the translation of a document written in 1982 and formulating a plan to build up a Muslim Caliphate. The document was discovered in a raid in Switzerland in 2001.

The target of the raid was Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa Bank of Lugano, who has had active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than 50 years and who admitted to being one of the organization’s international leaders. The Muslim Brotherhood, regarded as the oldest and one of the most important Islamist movements in the world, was founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928 and dedicated to the credo, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

According to FrontPage, the main points of the plan are as follows:

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

It is obvious that not every Muslim immigrant is part of this plan. Most might not be aware of it. But when dealing with fundamentalist Muslims it is important to keep this in mind. An organization in Holland called the WRR recently called upon the Dutch gov't to conduct talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, bringing them as an example of "moderate Islam" and citing that the Muslim Brotherhood is considered too moderate by some Muslims.

Source: FrontPage Magazine 1, 2 (English)

See also: About the WRR report

Update:

Another issue to note, this "secret plan" (and I would be glad for more confirmation on it), is very similar to the way the Muslim Brotherhood operated in Egypt, according to Khadduri in his book Political Trends in the Arab World (see my review). From its inception in the late 1920s and until it tried to take over power in Egypt, it portrayed itself as a charity organization, dedicated only to bettering the lot of the poor and teaching Islam. Even after they tried to take over power, it still remained a debate as to whether it was their original plan or not, and whether they were trying to build up a Muslim Caliphate or just take care of Egypt.