The objective of the proposed project is to reduce the influence of radical Islam as practiced by militants and minimize radical thought, which has been left unchallenged by mainstream Muslims on both sides of the secular and non-secular divide. In fighting radical Islam, the focus of political administrations has been to target geographic battlefields. However, the real battlefield is in the mind. The only way we can win the war on terror is by fighting radical Islamic ideology. Islamic ideology (as presently perceived) is comparable to a factory producing militant followers. It is only through challenging this nucleus that we have any hope of winning the struggle againstextremism in Islam. The previously applied label “War on Terror” focused on militant Islam and terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. Though the label has changed, it remains that there are a growing number of radical Islamic terror networks. Al-Qaeda remains an easily recognized front runner; however, it is accompanied by dozens of other groups, some of which include Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, the Muslims Brotherhood, and Jama’atud-Da’wah. While some of these groups are political and state-specific, the fact remains that they are each active sponsors of terrorism. Changing the label hasn’t changed the war. In fact, the war on terror has spread past identifiable targets and into the sociopolitical sphere, where Muslim lobbyists and social groups push to pass legislation favoring an Islamic agenda that conflicts with our constitutional foundation – an act commonly referred to as Islamism. Moreover, a number of non-militant and non-Islamist Muslims tacitly support the propagandist views that favor misinterpretations of Islamic faith. The core of Islamic faith plays a critical role in understanding the issues since Islam is a faith that dictates a central political and social structure for its followers. The solution is to challenge questionable Islamic ideology in all major components of Islamic philosophy. Methods including challenging prevailing interpretations of scripture paired with an analysis of trends ranging from terrorism, political indoctrination of Islam in western society, and cultural implications regularly associated with the faith. The method must be executed in a very specific manner for it to be effective; anything short of this specific method will fail.
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The objective of the proposed project is to reduce the influence of radical Islam as practiced by militants and minimize radical thought, which has been left unchallenged by mainstream Muslims on both sides of the secular and non-secular divide.