The Challenge of Dawa by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Moving beyond the controversy over his executive order on immigration, President Trump now has the chance to broaden our strategy. Instead of "combating violent extremism," his administration needs to redefine the threat posed by political Islam by recognizing it as an ideology that is fundamentally incompatible with our freedoms and a movement that is working insidiously but effectively to achieve its stated utopia. I argue that the American public urgently needs to be educated about both the ideology of political Islam and the organizational infrastructure called dawa that Islamists use to inspire, indoctrinate, recruit, finance, and mobilize those Muslims whom they win over to their cause.

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