You can thank Jason Trahan of the Dallas Morning News for blowing this one wide open:
Amid the mountain of evidence [Diarist's note: why are large quantities of evidence always described as "mountains" and not, say, plethoras?] released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, the most provocative has turned out to be a handful of previously classified evidence detailing Islamist extremists' ambitious plans for a U.S. takeover.
A knot of terrorism researchers [Diarist's note: why are large quantities of researchers always never described as "knots"?] say the memos and audiotapes, many translated from Arabic and containing detailed strategies by the international Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood, are proof that extremists have long sought to replace the Constitution with Shariah, or Islamic law.
No, I do not know how to clean "frappuccino" out of your keyboard.
Jason goes on to call the Brotherhood's plans "chillingly stark" -- despite the fact that "the ideals contained in the documents were written by disgruntled foreign dissidents representing a tiny radical fringe (and) the documents also pre-date the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the 80-year-old Muslim Brotherhood is now either inactive or largely underground in America."
So, why chillingly stark?
Wait for it...
Get ready, here it comes:
"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its 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 other religions," it states. This process requires a "mastery of the art of 'coalitions,' the art of 'absorption' and the principles of 'cooperation.'"
DIABOLICAL! Those sneaky ragheads crafty Muslims were conspiring to win hearts and minds! Why, I bet they even proselytized door to door! Fortunately for us, foreign ideas like coalitions and cooperation aren't so easy to sneak past us Americans!!!
Of course, there are those terrorist apologists*** who will say that this is not ample cause for a national freakout of epic proportions, such as Mahdi Bray, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, who said, "If those documents talk about the establishing of Shariah law in America, I'm saying that's a lot of hype: wishful thinking."
***Mr. Bray, according to the article, "has been accused by some" of precisely this -- being a terrorist apologist. A tip of my cap to some. I love some, and the things they say.
So, to sum up, not only is it your patriotic duty to be scared shitless about terrorist attacks; it is also your patriotic duty to be scared shitless about a dormant plan to take over our country by diplomatic means and replace our Constitution with the Koran.
Please do not worry about how this will be accomplished; simply be assured that in every mosque, careful plans are being drawn to make you like them. Good Americans will condition themselves not to.
Please also pay no attention to the fact that we don't even observe our own Constitution anymore. Certainly if it were replaced with the Koran, Americans and their leaders would pay it the respect it deserved by virtue of the fact that it occupied a glass case in the Library of Congress.
Also please pay no attention to the fact that by and large people in America find Islam to be silly. You may chuckle when you hear them refer to non-Muslims as "infidels," or to America as "The Great Satan," or to Katie Couric as "Satan's Fork-Tongued Slutbeast," but their archaic language is merely designed to disguise the fact that every single Muslim living in America today possesses the expertise to build, conceal and launch nuclear weapons on atop precisely targeted missiles.
But really this is not about capabilities. This is about motive. Who cares if they can do it? The point is, they want to, and look, unless you're ready to begin your day facing Mecca for an hour before you even get a bowl of fucking Coco Puffs in your belly, you owe it to yourself to stay bedwettingly scared informed.
Thank sweet baby Jesus the Dallas Morning News is on the case.