MILNET Reprint:
Good VS. Bad Jihadists, 05/28/2008
"The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within"

- From the Muslim Brotherhood's "strategic goal for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood"

The following is a reprint of the original, very brief statement by Walid Phares, a guest professor at the CI Centre, an Alexandria, VA. based educational institution specializing in counterintelligence and employing former members of the counter intelligence community that could be considered a who's who of former intelligence officers. 

Professor Phares is "a Senior Fellow and the director for Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington (2001-2007). He is also a Visiting Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracies in Brussels (2006-2007). He has been a Professor of Middle East Studies, Ethnic and Religious Conflict at the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) from 1993 to 2006. He is a senior lecturer on the War on Terror at the LLS Program of FAU. " - CI Centre BIO.

Usama's Message: Good Jihadists v. Bad Jihadists

   In his latest audio released by as-sahab (media arm of al Qaeda), the organization's Zaeem (supreme chief) elaborates on the difference between the pure Jihadists and those Islamists who lost their way and determination to continue the fight in the path of the founding fathers, which he calls the "Salaf of Islam." This complex speech (by Jihadist standards) can be only understood -- and thus explained to decision-makers and the public if the listener-analyst is able to grasp the multi-layered world of Jihadism.

    But this task has been made unnecessarily difficult for most citizens and certainly impossible to those who in the US bureaucracy are supposed to do the job. By disseminating the so-called "Lexicon", the Bush administration, bureaucrats are prohibited from using the words Jihad, Jihadism, Caliphate, Salafism, Islamism and the like when writing about and analyzing matters related to terrorism. This ridiculous proposition is now put to test when al Qaeda leaders -- and other Jihadist high profile figures broadcast their statements

   ......Ironically, a Jihadist who is too PC in the eyes of Bin laden is the one who do not explicitly declare that he is on a Jihad campaign for the reestablishment of Caliphate.  Amazingly, in its essence, the message of Bin Laden to the other side -- that is to the infidels -- is that there are two Jihadisms moving forward. His own pure Jihad, open, honorable and direct (as he portrays it) and the Jihad of the Wahabbis, Muslim Brotherhood and even the deviationist one of the Khomeinist-inspired Hizballah. What Bin laden reveals -- indirectly -- is that his competitors are perfidious, power hungry and deceptive. Coming from the commander of al Qaeda, this is very revealing. He wants to be perceived as the real Jihadist and the others to be looked at as the false ones......


- Walid Phares, CI Centre Guest Speaker



Sources:
  1. Usama's Message: Good Jihadists vs. Bad Jihadists, Walid Phares, CI Centre, undated


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