Imagine the United States as a Muslim country. The government and the mosque would be the same entity. Thieves would have their hands cut off and adulterers would be stoned. Women would become property and people could be executed for criticizing Islam. “It couldn’t happen,” you say? While it seems unfathomable at the moment, it is the long-term goal of Islamic leaders living in this country. 

Rather than attempting the violent approach of conquer and rule, Moslem strategists are planning to use stealth and incrementalism to achieve the same ends. In his book Stealth Jihad, author Robert Spencer explains in great detail how our liberties already have to bow to demands by Islamic plotters under the guise of diversity and political correctness. These stealth jihadists are already ensconced within our political, media and educational establishments.

An article by Daniel Pipes titled “The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America,” explains the thinking of some of these people. He writes, “The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Laden—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam. Although not responsible for the atrocities in September, they harbor designs for this country that warrant urgent and serious attention.”  This is a potential problem that we, as a nation, are generally unaware.

I see their plan as somewhat similar to other incremental plans such as the anti-smoking campaign, which began about 45 years ago. You may remember that it started slowly with public service announcements on television that ridiculed smokers. Little by little it became more intense. Then government mandated messages were required on cigarette packs. Little by little, politicians in congress started adding restrictions and tobacco tax increases. Someone of genius dreamed up the concept of “second hand smoke,” which has never been proven scientifically but only through statistics. Today smokers are viewed as pariahs. If we begin paying attention now, hopefully an Islamic U.S. won’t sneak up on us in the same way.

Again quoting Daniel Pipes, “The first missionaries for militant Islam, or Islamism, who arrived here from abroad in the 1920's, unblushingly declared, "Our plan is, we are going to conquer America." The audacity of such statements hardly went unnoticed at the time, including by Christians who cherished their own missionizing hopes. As a 1922 newspaper commentary put it: To the millions of American Christians who have so long looked eagerly forward to the time the cross shall be supreme in every land and the people of the whole world shall have become the followers of Christ, the plan to win this continent to the path of the "infidel Turk" will seem a thing unbelievable. But there is no doubt about its being pressed with all the fanatical zeal for which the Mohammedans are noted.

But it is in recent decades, as the Muslim population in the country has increased significantly in size, social standing, and influence, and as Islamism has made its presence widely felt on the international scene, that this "fanatical zeal" has truly come into its own. A catalyzing figure in the story is the late Ismail Al-Faruqi, a Palestinian immigrant who founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought and taught for many years at Temple University in Philadelphia. Rightly called "a pioneer in the development of Islamic studies in America," he was also the first contemporary theorist of a United States made Muslim. "Nothing could be greater," Al-Faruqi wrote in the early 1980's, "than this youthful, vigorous, and rich continent [of North America] turning away from its past evil and marching forward under the banner of Allahu Akbar [God is great]."

At the University of Michigan last year, the school decided to install foot bath facilities in several restrooms to accommodate Muslim students who must wash their feet prior to their daily prayers five times a day. This rightly became a controversial issue. Is spending $25,000 for the benefit of Muslims constitutional since praying at football games has been banned?  The school decided it was a “safety issue” after someone got hurt while washing his feet in the sink. To me, it is still favoring Islam over other religions, but that is how it is being done—a footbath at a time. At many colleges, Muslims have been given prayer rooms with dividers to separate the sexes. While this is being done to promote “diversity,” we should be continually aware that the ultimate goal is the takeover of this country and the implementation of Shariah law.