Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II) by Poole Patrick & Schmitz Joseph E. & Boykin William J & Soyster Harry Edward & Cooper Henry & Del Rosso Michael & Gaffney Jr. Frank J. & Guandolo John & Lopez Clare M. & McCarthy Andrew C

Author:Poole, Patrick & Schmitz, Joseph E. & Boykin, William J & Soyster, Harry Edward & Cooper, Henry & Del Rosso, Michael & Gaffney Jr., Frank J. & Guandolo, John & Lopez, Clare M. & McCarthy, Andrew C. [McCarthy, Andrew C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center for Security Policy Press
Published: 2011-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

“…The corps of Revolutionary Guards…have responsibility not only for the safeguarding of the frontiers, but also for a religious mission, which is jihad along the way of Allah, and the struggle to extend the supremacy of Allah’s law in the world.”[292]

In 1979, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers were the second group of jihadists, after the House of Saud earlier in the 20th Century, to seize control of a nation state with vast natural resources. While the Saudi population is predominantly Sunni and that of Iran predominantly Shiite, both regimes are completely committed to the supremacy of shariah and its realization across the globe via jihad – whether by the pen, the purse or the sword.