Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington
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Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington is a 2005 book (ISBN 1-59555-003-8) by Paul Sperry, a journalist who writes for World Net Daily and Antiwar.com
The book documents what Paul Sperry believes to be a vast and insidious infiltration of Wahhabist Muslims into the American educational system, government, workplace, law enforcement, and the military. Their alleged goal is to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Sharia and turn America into a totalitarian Islamic state.
Sperry believes that this alleged Wahhabist conspiracy has been at times unwittingly (and at other times intentionally) aided by a "politically correct" US media that promotes Islamism and keeps citizens unaware of danger of Islam to American values.
[edit] Genre
Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington can be placed within the genre of the "paranoid style" in American politics, as described by historian Richard Hofstadter in an essay in Harper's Magazine in 1964, later turned into a book. A major aspect of the Paranoid Style is that America is under secret attack by a foreign ideology that is infiltrating American society with the goal of destroying it. Several newer books on this subject have been published. One by Daniel Pipes describes how anti-Semitic conspiracism flourishes in the Middle East, highlighting the irony that Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington is a mirror image of that genre based on anti-Muslim sentiments.
[edit] References
- Richard Hofstadter. 1965. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-674-65461-7
- Daniel Pipes. 1997. Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From. New York: The Free Press.
- Daniel Pipes. 1998. The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
- Robert Alan Goldberg. 2001. Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09000-5
- Michael Barkun. 2003. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley: Univ. of California. ISBN 0-520-23805-2
