Petrodollar Long Jihad
Petrodollar wealth has played a significant role in spreading Islamist ideas and institutions internationally. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have funded religious, educational, and community networks across the Muslim world and the West. These networks have helped shape debates over Islam, integration, and political identity. The Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar are presented as important actors within this wider landscape of influence. Critics argue that financial support can extend beyond religious activity into Western academic and cultural institutions. The central question is how money, ideology, and institutional influence interact to shape political and religious life in the West.
For Day 10 of Infidel Awareness Month.
On the first day of the year 1400 A.H. (November 20, 1979), the followers of Mahdi-pretendent Muhammad Abdullah al-Qahtani seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca — the most holy site in Sunni Islam and the destination of the Hajj. He opposed the Saudi monarchy for their blasphemous alliance with the West, and wanted to establish a theocracy (full Sharia Law) in preparation for the imminent apocalypse that year.
In order to convince the religious leadership to permit his forces to invade , the king promised both stricter enforcement of Sharia in Saudi Arabia, and to fund a campaign of exporting the very teachings they had just defeated so violently (270 dead, 68 later beheaded) to the West via mosques in the diaspora, whom they sought to radicalize with this millenarian dream of a global Caliphate. In other words, instead of theocracy radiating from Mecca in preparation for an imminent apocalypse (Judgment Day in 1400) through Jihad, the Saudis turned to subverting the West in preparation for a slower, but worldwide establishment of the millennial kingdom: The Global Caliphate.
Over the next two decades, diaspora Muslims were exposed to a massive, fully-funded campaign of Wahhabi-inspired teachings, replacing the more tepid, civil-society compliant teachings of an earlier generation with the most radical articulation of Islamic supremacism. This included taking over existent mosques and building new ones, as well as radicalizing Muslim students at Western universities. The history of this highly successful effort is written by Ed Husain and Majjid Nawaz, men radicalized by those teachings, before returning to liberal values. Most of this action occurred under the radar, and only people who were dismissed as “right-wing paranoids” kept track of their progress. In the United States an extensive network of supremacist institutions created by the Muslim Brotherhood, with demopathic claims to civil rights, made its way into the mainstream discourse of the infidels, right up to the White House.
After 2000, when global jihadis began their direct attack on democracies (Oslo Jihad, 2000; Al Qaeda, 2001), the Muslim Brotherhood plan for the conquest of the West, kicked into high gear, and a new player emerged on the diaspora scene, the Qataris. One of the main goals of this effort was to subvert Western information professionals, especially academia and journalism so that their products would reflect the narrative the supremacists wanted their infidel targets to accept: Islam is a religion of peace, the jihadis are not truly Islamic, the danger of Western Islamophobia is a moral emergency, and if only their genocidal target, Israel, were destroyed, there would be freedom and peace.
The billions and tens of billions of dollars that flooded the most elite universities had a dominating effect. Henry Kissinger once noted that the fighting in academia was so fierce because the stakes were so small. When all of a sudden, professors fighting for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, suddenly got flooded with cash as long as they promoted the jihadi narrative for infidel consumption, the game changed fundamentally, and the woeful state of academia today with its addiction to Palestinianism, bears witness to the damage done to scholarship among the information professionals.
Today we speak with Charles Small, the director ISGAP, whose groundbreaking study tracks this hundred year war declared on the West from its origins in “The Project” to the current flooding of US universities and news media with Qatari money.
Interview with Charles Small
Bibliography
Yaroslav Trofimov, The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda (2007)
Harold Rhode, Modern Islamic Warfare (2017). Chapter 2 outlines the deal the Saudis struck with their Wahabi religious authorities to invade their mosque with (French) soldiers, and to invade the West with their teachings.
Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism (New York: Regnery, 2003). Good treatment of the apocalyptic dimension of the motivation for radical action.
Muslim Brotherhood, “The Project.” (1982)
Muhammad Akram, An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America (1991)
Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America (2002), a collection of essays written before 9-11. Pipes argues that the West is unaware of the war that “Islamists” (ie Islamic supremacists) had been waging for two decades on the US, and that contrary to the assurances of other Islam experts, it was not in retreat after 9-11, but on the contrary, on the ascendant.
Investigative Project on Terrorism, directed by Steven Emerson, who unlike the willfully blind US authorities after the 1993 attempted bombing of the World Trade Center, woke up to the threat and documented it extensively over the last three decades.
At the Halfway Point of Its 100-Year Plan: ISGAP Unveils Landmark Report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into North America, a thoroughly documented study of the long war on democracies, and the aggressive turn of the Muslim Brotherhood operatives after 9-11, and the hundreds of billions of petrodollars spent corrupting western academic institutions.
Dalia Ziada, ISGAP Washington Coordinator, Research Fellow, and co-author of the report, said: “As someone who has studied and witnessed the Brotherhood’s operations firsthand, I can say with confidence that this is not a theoretical threat. It is an organized, multi-generational project to manipulate Western democracies and silence moderate Muslim voices, often powered by the ideological and financial backing of Qatar.”
Sources: https://rlandes.substack.com/, https://theaugeanstables.com/