Political Islam represents a comprehensive civilizational system that inextricably blends religious doctrine with political ambitions for conquest and control. Rooted in foundational texts the Quran, Sira (biography of Muhammad), and Hadith these sources allocate over 51% of their content to directives concerning non-Muslims, or Kafirs, who are deemed inferior and subject to distinct, often coercive moral and legal standards. Central to this system is jihad, the highest communal obligation for Muslims, encompassing violent methods like warfare, rape, and torture alongside non-violent tactics such as financial influence, legal manipulation, and ideological propagation to enforce submission to Allah and Muhammad's example.
This orientation page distinguishes between individual Muslims pursuing personal faith and the organized Political Islam movement that weaponizes religious identity to undermine pluralistic democracies. Mosques serve not merely as places of worship but as political-military bases every mosque functioning as an army outpost facilitating recruitment, planning, and dissemination of supremacist agendas. Political Islam strategically redefines key Western concepts: "peace" as the end-state of universal Islamic dominance, "terrorism" as a sanctioned tool to terrorize unbelievers (emulating Muhammad's tactics), and "human rights" through Sharia, which denies equality to women, non-Muslims, and apostates, clashing fundamentally with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Core Doctrinal Pillars
Muhammad exemplifies the perfect political-religious leader for adherents, with his military campaigns, treaties, and governance models to be emulated. Islamic dualism permits contradictory teachings—peaceful verses alongside calls for violence—both deemed valid based on context and abrogating principles. This enables Political Islam to operate deceptively in open societies, leveraging religious freedom protections to erect parallel structures that erode the rule of law, individual liberty, and national sovereignty.
Threats to the West, America, and Israel
Political Islam poses an existential danger, rapidly expanding through infiltration of education, media, law, and politics, often allied with leftist movements that unwittingly serve as useful idiots for Iran's jihad network and antisemitic regimes. It fuels terrorism via proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah, delegitimizes Israel's Jewish homeland in Judea and Samaria, and rejects moral distinctions between democratic self-defense and jihadist atrocities, such as those in the October 7 War. Western values—democracy, human rights, and security—are targeted for subversion by state actors including Iran, Russia, China, and Qatar.