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66 Manufacturing the Muslim Menace 2008), 157. See also Robert A. Pape, Cutting the Fuse: The explosion of global suicide terrorism and how to stop it (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 81. Finds that most transnational suicide terrorists are not the products of long-standing inculcation in particular religious institutions. 304 Sageman, Leaderless Jihad, 157. 305 Furthermore, as noted by Congressional Research Services in its 2010 survey of the “homegrown jihadist threat,” the actual risk to American lives from a domestic terrorist is minimal relative to other crime, disparate sources of terrorism, and by comparison to other periods of American history. Jerome P. Bjelopera and Mark A. Randol, “American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat” (Congressional Research Service, 2010), 7. 306 U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, “Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims.” 307 U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims.” 308 PressTV, “Anti-Islam Police Training,” PressTVGlobalNews Channel, YouTube (Dec. 22, 2010). http://www.youtube.com/ user/PressTVGlobalNews#p/search/9/eHmhHEf75NE 309 “CAIR: Jesse Jackson, ICNA Endorse Letter on Anti-Islam FBI Training,” PRNewswire (August 6, 2010). http://www.prnews wire.com/news-releases/cair-jesse-jackson-icna-endorse-letteron-anti-islam-fbi-training-100125869.html; Letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, “Concern over Anti-Islam Bias Being Incorporated into Virginia JTTF Training,” (August 2, 2010). http://www.cair.com/Portals/0/pdf/coalition_letter_to_FBI.pdf 310 See Janet I. Tun, “Does course on Islam give law enforcers wrong idea?” Seattle Times (May 23, 2008). http://seattletimes. nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004433567_muslim23m.html 311 Bilal Kaleem, Muslim American Society, electronic correspondence to Thomas Cincotta (March 29, 2010). 312 Janet I. Tun, “Does course on Islam give law enforcers wrong idea?” Seattle Times (May 23, 2008). http://seattletimes. nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004433567_muslim23m.html (retrieved Oct 22, 2010) 313 “Seattle Muslims Urge Balance in Police Training on Islam,” PRNewswire (May 22, 2008). http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgibin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/05-22- 2008/0004819477&EDATE=THU+May+22+2008,+12:17+PM 314 Paul Shukovsky, “FBI Says Men in Ferry Photo were Innocent Sightseers,” SeattlePI (May 6, 2008). http://seattlepi.nwsource. com/local/361872_ferryterror06.html 315 Arsalan Bukhari, Interview by PRA, September 2010. 316 Deputy Chief Donald O’Connor, Email to PRA (September 8, 2010). Four officers from MBTA attended “Suicide Terror and the Threat of Explosives” organized by Security Solutions International in 2008. 317 Council on American-Islamic Relations, “Penn. Muslims Seek 'Balance' in Police Training on Islam” (April 25, 2008). http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=777&&ArticleID=24681&&name=n&&currPage=1 318 Council on American-Islamic Relations, “IL Official Apologizes for Using Fake 'Mosque' in Drill” (May 9, 2008). http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=777&&ArticleID=24778&&name=n&&currPage=1 POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 319 Alejandro J. Beutel, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Policy Memorandum, “Intro to ‘Inherently Governmantal’ Intelligence Analysis, and Private Contractors” (October 6, 1010). 320 “Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998,” Office of Management and Budget (October 19, 1998). http://whitehouse.gov/ omb/procurement_fairact/ 321 “Circular No. A-76 (Revised),” Office of Management and Budget (May 29, 2003) http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/circulars/ a076/a76_rev2003.pdf 322 “Federal Acquisitions Regulation, Subpart 7.5” Integrated Acquisition Environment (N.d.) http://www.acquisition.gov/far/current/html/Subpart%207_5.html Investigative Reporter Tim Shorrock estimates that the ODNI spent about 70% of its FY 2007 budget on contractors who perform signals intelligence, run spy networks, and conduct covert operations. Tim Shorrock, Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. (New York: NY: Simon & Schuster, 2008), p. 12. 323 Frank Naif, “Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess – and It’s a Mess.” Huffington Post, (July 14, 2009). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-naif/congress-demandsfull-acc_b_231584.html
Private Firms, Public Servants, and the Threat to Rights and Security Annotated Glossary Caliphate: The term caliphate refers to the first political system of government established in Islam, representing the political unity of the Muslim nation. The head of state (Caliph) and other officials rule according to Islamic law. Jihad: To most scholars, religious leaders, and Muslims, the term jihad signifies a spiritual battle for personal salvation, the self-discipline to follow God’s will, to be better Muslims; it is a lifelong struggle to be virtuous. 1 Counterterrorism commentators typically use jihadist or jihadi movement to describe the ideology and tactics of armed Islamic terrorist groups, such as al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Such groups have “exploited the idea of jihad to call for physical force, if necessary, in the struggle against all ideas, ideologies, and political institutions that they regard as alien to Islam.” 2 Terrorism in the name of God has been practiced by the adherents of all major religions and by pseudo-religious sects; the use of the idea to justify non-defensive lethal attacks has been highly controversial within Muslim theological circles. 3 Jihad is also used to describe the Islamic community’s aims to spread the rule or abode of Islam globally through preaching, diplomacy, economic means, warfare, brutality, and infiltration. This hybrid view merges the broad acceptance of jihad as spiritual understanding with jihad as warfare and posits an existential threat to Western democracies and Christianity. Those who advance this view position jihadism as a core tenet of “true” Islam and either infer or assert that Islam is a terrorist religion. Islamic Fundamentalism: Fundamentalists are found within the three major monotheistic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Muslim fundamentalists believe that the only remedy for the growing threat of the renunciation of Islam (apostacy) is to establish states governed exclusively by Sharia (the law of Allah). Fundamentalists focus their concern first on lax members of the faith community itself and see the world as sharply divided between true believers and corrupt sinners. Islamism: Islamism or Political Islam refers to Muslim social movements and attitudes that advocate the search for more purely Islamic solutions to contemporary political, economic, and cultural issues. The terms fundamentalism, jihadism, and Islamic extremism are often and inaccurately used as synonyms and are avoided in this report, except when quoting or summarizing the views of others. 4 For many writers, Islamism connotes “stridently antagonistic Muslim attitudes toward the West, socially conservative and patriarchal attitudes, intolerance toward non-Muslims, and perhaps most fearfully for outsiders to Islamist causes, the ambition to establish Islamic law, Sharia, as a normative political goal.” 5 Narrow insistence on implementing such beliefs across Muslim society has gained only limited Muslim support around the word, with more sympathy for conserving traditional Muslim values. 6 Most Islamists support peaceful change. 7 Muslim Brotherhood: The oldest and most influential Islamist movement, founded in Egypt in 1928. Radical Islam: Refers to Muslim individuals, groups, organizations, and parties that see in Islam a guiding political doctrine that justifies and motivates mobilization on behalf of that doctrine. They are radical because they reject accommodation with the existing order, refuse to participate in its institutions, and insist on the necessity of violent revolution or terrorism to achieve their objective. The long term stated goal of these radicals is to establish a new government based on Islamic law (Sharia) and unify the Islamic nation under a single Muslim ruler (khalifa or caliph). Radical Islam has its origins in intellectuals and organizations that were not always radical or violent, but “above all, radical Muslims put forward an extreme interpretation of Islam to justify rebellion against the existing order,” according to Congressional Quarterly’s Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. 8 Radical Islamists believe that is an aggressive doctrine, not a defensive concept. 9 Salafism: A form of Islamic fundamentalism. The Salafi movement within the larger Muslim population comprises the most puritanical form of Sunni Islam and promotes the return to the original teachings of the Prophet Muhammed and his companions. Salafis believe that the Quran and the Prophet Muhammed’s practices (the Hadiths, not later interpretations of these sources by Islamic scholars) are the most authentic POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 67
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