A noted specialist on Islamic law and ideology from the Center for Security Policy, who has been cited as an expert for the Pentagon, says a coalition of Islamists and Marxists is working to destroy the United States.

The comments come from Stephen Coughlin, a lecturer for leading Department of Defense institutions such as the Naval War College, Marine Corps HQ-Quantico and for the FBI. Coughlin is a retired major in the U.S. Army reserves and was assigned to USCENTCOM, with a military intelligence specialty.

His assignments included the Pentagon's National Military Joint Intelligence Center, the National Security Council's Interagency Perception Management Threat Panel and the intelligence staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so he has the credentials required for such assessments.

He recently addressed the Northern Virginia Chapter of ACT! for America, where he quoted terrorist Carlos the Jackal, who said, "Only a coalition of Islamists and Marxists can destroy the United States." Thus, Coughlin said, "If we're going to get a grip on this, we have to know their narrative and understand it. We know that when the other side has language that's locked into doctrine, we need to hold them to it."

He showed al-Qaida's agenda for lone jihadists too.

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He cited the case of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed during a confrontation with police.

Tsarnaev reportedly sent a text message to his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, saying he was "ready to die for Islam." ABC News Radio reported that his surviving brother and fellow suspect told investigators both "were ready to die." According to The Christian Post, "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicated that his older brother hated America and Christianity, especially for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Al-Qaida is one of the Muslim Brotherhood's many branches and it preaches that individual Muslims should act as lone jihadists, lone terrorists. Therefore, after the bombings in Boston, after the two Muslim Tsarnaev brothers were named as the primary suspects, Coughlin made an in-depth video on the Muslim Brotherhood's narrative on this subject.

In it, he says, "A couple years ago, in June 2010, I was asked to brief a couple members of Congress about what this concept of the 'lone wolf' was. It's the first time I brought the fact that what the FBI and DHS call 'lone wolf' is actually a formal part of jihad."

In the video, Coughlin also highlights the cold calculation of al-Qaida's leaders telling their followers who to murder and where to murder them.

And there are some surprising details. For example, he said al-Qaida urges against killing Jews in their synagogues. Coughlin believes that's because it's bad publicity that damages the Muslim Brotherhood's deceptive "interfaith" dialogues with Christians and Jews.

He quotes an article from the al-Qaida magazine "Inspire," which says: "The confrontation with America is fundamental, while the confrontation with Europe is secondary, aimed at making Europe lead the alliance by putting pressure on her."

His presentation follows:

The U.S. government has known of the Muslim Brotherhood's goal of defeating the U.S. since 2004, when federal investigators raided a terrorist's home in Virginia and found "An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America."

That was written in 1991 by Mohamed Akram for the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council.

The FBI's discovery of the memo led to the 2008 federal trial entitled the United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation, through which the federal government shut down HLF for sending millions of dollars to the terrorist group HAMAS, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch.

In the memo, Akram addresses his fellow Muslim Brotherhood members with various titles, including the organization's official name: the Islamic Movement, the Movement and Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun in Arabic.

Akram wrote: "In order for Islam and its Movement to become 'a part of the homeland' in which it lives, 'stable' in its land, 'rooted' in the spirits and minds of its people, 'enabled' in the [life] of its society and [have] firmly-established 'organizations' on which the Islamic structure is built and with which the testimony of civilization is achieved, the Movement must plan and struggle to obtain 'the keys' and the tools of this process [to] carry out this grand mission as a 'Civilization Jihadist' responsibility which lies on the shoulders of Muslims and – on top of them – the Muslim Brotherhood in this country. …

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their [own] hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes…"

The 1991 memo lists 29 of the Muslim Brotherhood’s public organizations working to conquer the U.S. and North America. Subsequently, other front groups were established, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Coughlin pointed to Tariq Ramadan as a protégé of "Rules for Radicals" author Saul Alinsky. He is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna.

Among his many occupations, Ramadan is a professor at Oxford University, where he concentrates on "Islamic revival in the world and Muslims of the West." He's president of the European Muslim Network, and Ramadan is widely published and widely received as a charismatic speaker of English, French and Arabic.

Coughlin said Ramadan wasn't allowed in the United States because he was on the terrorist watch list, but last July 27 he went to the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Circle of North America fundraiser in Dallas, Texas, and said, "We should all be very careful not to be colonized by something which is coming from the consumerist society. It should be us with our understanding of Islam, colonizing positively the United States of America."

"It's very important to hear the Alinskyist narrative," said Coughlin. "What do they do? How many times do you hear them talk about core values? Part of Alinskyism is to take core, hallowed terms, both in the sacred governmental space of our Constitution and religiously because they are just as virulent and powerful in the interfaith community. Take core ideas, use them but redefine them."

Apart from Coughlin's lectures, WND columnists have written about Alinsky developing the strategy of infiltrating government through "community organizers," and the fact that some of his most successful students are former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Barack Hussein Obama.

WND also covers the Islamist infiltration of our government and school systems.

Ironically, some 10 hours before the bombings in Boston, Coughlin's CSP colleague Clare Lopez, a former CIA staffer, released "History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government."

In the report, Lopez shows how the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated presidential administrations from Bill Clinton to Obama. For example, Bill and Hillary Clinton welcomed Muslim Brotherhood operatives, including Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was convicted during the Bush administration in 2004 for financing terrorism.

Lopez also reveals that Hillary Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin, wife of the leftist philandering former Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood. Lopez further shows how Muslim Brotherhood officials infiltrated President George W. Bush's administration, and how they influenced his speeches on Islam as a religion of peace, plus his policies.

Both Lopez and Coughlin point to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which is the Islamist version of the United Nations. Lopez says: "Another senior affiliate, Rashad Hussain, is the Obama administration's envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Hussain's background is replete with Muslim Brotherhood associations… In his official capacity, Hussain is responsible for providing advice on national security and Muslim outreach. He assisted in writing the president's June 2009 Cairo speech, in which Obama announced a new approach to the Muslim world and essentially declared war on his host, then-President Hosni Mubarak, by publicly signaling his recognition of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Hussain also acts as point man for the Obama administration's cooperation with the Istanbul Process, the OIC effort to criminalize internationally any criticism of Islam. The current administration's weeks-long duplicity in the aftermath of the 11 September 2012 terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it repeatedly and mendaciously claimed that an internet video trailer sparked a protest there that got out of hand, appears to have been carefully scripted not just with the OIC but Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S., as well."

As one FBI official anonymously told WND, he saw the "scrub" of Muslim words from his agency's lexicon take place in 2007.

The most obvious victory for the Islamist/Marxist coalition is Clinton's and Obama's reaction to the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans by Islamists at the embassy in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.

Months prior to the 9/11 anniversary, Stevens expected terrorism on that anniversary and he asked for help. Stevens alerted State Department officials when he was under attack but no military assistance was sent.

After the murders in Libya and more Islamist attacks on other American embassies on 9/11, Obama and Clinton apologized to Muslims for an obscure video on YouTube that portrays Mohammad in unflattering terms, even though the video had nothing to do with the reasons for the attacks.

Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, allowed protesters to mob, threaten and vandalize our embassy there. And, according to Islam expert Robert R. Reilly, Morsi was recruited to the Muslim Brotherhood while he was a doctoral engineering student at the University of Southern California.

The Islamists and Marxists built their coalition with the common agenda of killing both Christianity and Judaism. It's an odd coalition because Marxists despise God and religion, while Islamists intend to impose their religion on everyone.

But the evidence is mounting. On April 4, the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA and the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty together announced they had uncovered a U.S. Army Reserve "Equal Opportunity" training brief that identifies "Evangelical Christianity" and "Catholicism" as examples of "religious extremism" along with al-Qaida, HAMAS and the Ku Klux Klan.

A slide from that training brief and its corresponding script reveals that in addition to grouping Catholics and Evangelical Christians with real terrorists, the Army Reserve added Islamist/Marxist propaganda by classifying "Islamophobia" as extremism.