not problems, and that the threat is only from irreconcilable violent Islamists like al-Qaeda.
He insists that the root cause of terrorism and Islamic extremism is not the Islamist ideolo
gy, but legitimate gripes against Western policy. It follows that the solution lies in reconciliation with supposedly non-violent Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood. And the Obama administration has embraced this theory wholeheartedly.
In our opinion, it is both prudent and necessary to look instead to the publicwords of Islamists, like those shown in the Clarion Project’s several documentary filmsand, not least, the 1991 strategic plan of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America59 which described its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”
