This book is not intended to be a work of scholarship. It is a handbook for Criminal Investigators and Intelligence Analysts, and is a point of departure for deeper inquiry. It is a tool that relies, however, on Islamic scholars for their insights.
This book is not about Muslims. It is about Islam: a challenging civilization with a militant world view that is animated by the teachings of Muhammad, resulting in a Clash of Civilizations characterized by crime and threats to security.
“Questioning Islam or Muslims is not Islamophobia. It is not appropriate to label all, or even the majority of those
who question Islam and Muslims, as Islamophobes. Equally, it is not Islamophobic to denounce crimes committed by individual Muslims or those claiming Islam as a motivation for their actions” (Council on American-Islamic Relations, 2013, p. IX).
Islam divides the world into dar al-Islam and dar al-harb and holds that a permanent state of war exists between the two until Islam prevails over its enemies. This book describes how that fight unfolds at the individual and neighborhood level. It relates Lessons Learned and shifts the focus from “terrorism” to “jihad” by examining the doctrinal foundations of Jihad. Imagine after Pearl Harbor, American intelligence agencies hired and placed Japanese operatives throughout the American Government to not offend the sensibilities of wartime Japanese in the United States and across the Pacific. One would expect a suppression or derailment of intelligence, education, training, analysis, discussion, and Decision-making in addressing the threat. That derailment has taken place. A concrete example of this derailment, twenty-plus years after 9-11, is the continued emphasis on ”terrorism” while consciously avoiding the subject of “Jihad” and its doctrinal roots. Here we look
at the doctrine.
“It is not hate speech for you to be aware of these things.” Imam Umar Mitchel, Umar lbn Al-Khattab Mosque
Aurora, Colorado, 22 Oct 2023
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