An Explanatory Memorandum On The General Strategic Goal For The Group in North America
See also: Muslim Brotherhood Influence OperationsAn Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America is a document seized by the government that was used in the 2008 United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development case. The verdict found the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development guilty of laundering money to known Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. According to critics of Islamism such as the Anti-Defamation League, some observers have suggested that this document "identifies a conspiracy by the Muslim Brotherhood to convert the United States to an Islamic nation." The document also lists a number of Islamic organizations that are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to working together to achieve the goals. Requests for removal of CAIR and others from the list of unindicted co-conspirators were denied by the court under the holding that the evidence supported the existence of the conspiracy.
The memorandum was written in 1991 by Mohamed Akram, a senior Hamas leader in the U.S., a member of the Board of Directors for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America (also known as the Ikhwan) and one of many unindicted coconspirators in the HLF trial. He asked them to read it for approval as an update and restatement of the plan they had adopted in 1987. Strategic goals number 6 was: "supporting the establishment of the global Islamic State wherever it is". The Memorandum explains "settlement process" as a "grand jihad" eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within, and "sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions." Author Robert Spencer has characterized this process as “stealth jihad.”
Though so far the Muslim Brotherhood has not repudiated the memorandum or responded to critics, some press has responded to the use of the memorandum to justify a call for a ban on "sharia". The memorandum was cited by the September 2010 Center for Security Policy (CSP) report, "Shariah: The Threat to America" and endorsed by several members of Congress. This report was characterized by IPS as "the latest development in a summer filled with intensifying attacks on Islam in the United States" which charges that many "apparently-lawful U.S. Muslims are waging a 'stealth jihad' to impose sharia on the U.S. through peaceful means" and furthermore claims that "virtually all major Muslim-American organisations are affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood", a Sunni fundamentalist organisation. The report suggested sharia is "the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time". It called for a "draconian" ban on Muslims who "espouse or support" sharia from full participation in government and the armed forces, prosecuting and banning immigration to the U.S. by those who adhere to sharia.
The document is mentioned in the film, The Third Jihad.
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