Rod gets right to the heart of it: a 1991 “explanatory memorandum” seized by the Justice Department and presented at the Holy Land Foundation terror trial. The memo, he explains, ”outlines the ‘strategic goal’ for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan).” Here’s the key paragraph:

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a “Civilization-Jihadist” process with all the word means. 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 and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.

There’s much more to the story. Rod adds:

[H]igh-profile organizations with roots explicitly in the Muslim Brotherhood have successfully established themselves in a paramount position to define Islam in America according to a radical politicized model. And they’ve done so without the American public having the slightest idea about their real agenda. Indeed, the Bush administration is unwittingly helping the Islamist cause by including their leaders in public events, thus conferring them legitimacy. On Labor Day weekend, the same Department of Justice that’s presenting evidence of the ISNA’s involvement with radical Islam at the Dallas trial sponsored a booth at – wait for it – ISNA’s national convention in suburban Chicago.

Astounding. FWIW, I think this is a more transcendent problem than we may realize. A big complaint I keep hearing from friends on the Right who do not support Iraq is that the Bush administration can’t seem to tell the good guys from the bad guys in the United States, so why should we be confident that the new Iraq we are trying to forge will be an ally of the United States against radical Islam — not just against al Qaeda but against the equally dangerous Shia variety? It’s a very legitimate concern … and I’m not sure I have a good answer.