The Islamist Project is a 14-page document purported to be authored by the Muslim Brotherhood outlining a long-term plan for an Islamic "cultural invasion" of the West. The Project is a roadmap for achieving the installation of Islamic regimes in the West via propaganda, preaching, and, if necessary, war. The following are the document's principal points:
1: To know the terrain and adopt a scientific methodology for its planning and execution.
2: To demonstrate proof of the serious nature of the work.
3: To reconcile international engagement with flexibility at a local level.
4: To reconcile political engagement and the necessity of avoiding isolation on one hand, with permanent education and institutional action on the other.
5: To be used to establish an Islamic State; parallel, progressive efforts targeted at controlling the local centres of power through institutional action.
6: To work with loyalty alongside Islamic groups and institutions in multiple areas to agree on common ground, in order to "cooperate on the points of agreement and set aside the points of disagreement".
7: To accept the principle of temporary cooperation between Islamic movements and nationalist movements in the broad sphere and on common ground such as the struggle against colonialism, preaching and the Jewish state, without however having to form alliances. This will require, on the other hand, limited contacts between certain leaders, on a case by case basis, as long as these contacts do not violate the [Sharia] law. Nevertheless, one must not give them allegiance or take them into confidence, bearing in mind that the Islamic movement must be the origin of the initiatives and orientations taken.
8: To master the art of the possible on a temporary basis without abusing the basic principles, bearing in mind that Allah's teachings always apply. One must order the suitable and forbid that which is not, always providing a documented opinion. But we should not look for confrontation with our adversaries, at the local or the global scale, which would be disproportionate and could lead to attacks against the dawa or its disciples.
9: To construct a permanent force of the Islamic dawa and support movements engaged in jihad across the Muslim world, to varying degrees and insofar as possible.
10: To use diverse and varied surveillance systems, in several places, to gather information and adopt a single effective warning system serving the worldwide Islamic movement. In fact, surveillance, policy decisions and effective communications complement each other.
11: To adopt the Palestinian cause as part of a worldwide Islamic plan, with the policy plan and by means of jihad, since it acts as the keystone of the renaissance of the Arab world today.
12: To know how to turn to self-criticism and permanent evaluation of worldwide Islamic policy and its objectives, of its content and its procedures, in order to improve it. This is a duty and a necessity according to the precepts of Sharia.
The Project reveals the enemy's pre-meditated goals and tactics including:
To date - in spite of hints and intimations gleaned from Al Qaeda tapes and videos and other Islamist public attempts at putting their acts of terrorism into perspective - no clearer document of Islamist intentions has been found.
The Islamist enemy has a clearly defined plan and set of goals, which, extraordinarily, many Western politicians prefer to ignore or, worse still, have never come across.
The Islamists deny the authenticity of The Project. But can they deny the authenticity of other similarly hegemonistic plans? One need look no further than Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, Hizb ut Tahrir's draft constitution, Abdul Alim Musa's As-Sabiqun, Qutb's Milestones or any of the other documented Islamist lines of attack.
V7 sees the Islamist project as a key document around which its strategies are calculated and designed.
