HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025031 As these narratives ("Our courts will never allow that," "As a superpower we will always be able to win any fight we put our minds to," "Assimilation will ensure Muslims are westernized" ...) gain consent from others they tend to guide us deeply and become infused on our policies. Ultimately, what emerges is a relationship we take with our Islamic Enemy that parallels that between an addict and an enabler. Emblematic of this relationship is the "transfer of responsibility" in which we assume responsibility for the enemy's behavior who is addicted to transferring it away from itself The Control Factor actively maintains this relationship and makes changing that relationship as difficult a chore as any addict finds in breaking his addiction. And just as an addict needs to devote serious effort and con sciousness to his addiction, so must we devote great energy to unders tanding how the Control Factor ultimately sabotages us. FP: Describe the threat we face in our Islamic enemy. And you talk about the three levels of jihad against us. What are they? Siegel: Simply stated, our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world — Islamic supremacy. It seeks to have the West submit to Islam. Obviously, this does not mean that everybody becomes a Muslim. Islam, in all its varied expressions, permits dhimmis- those Christians, Jews, and some others who are permitted to remain as protected non-Muslims as long as they submit to an inferior status. What is critical is that Shariah (Islamic Law) ultimately rules the world. Jihad, loosely, is the effort/struggle to see this vision through. The most obvious method of Jihad is through violence; it is the one most familiar to most Westerners and almost all of the Koranic references to Jihad are based in violence. The Violent Jihad includes al-Qaeda and its offshoots as well as other groups that formed around the globe independent of al-Qaeda. It also obviously in