Nearly all Islamic-takeover alarm traces to a single dubious 1991 memo.

Evidence

Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler also investigated this sketchy 1991 memorandum for the New Yorker when he wrote that “virtually all the alarm over the coming Islamic takeover and the spread of Sharia law can be traced back to an old document of questionable authority and relevance entitled ‘An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.’” Mr. Shipler also wrote that this dubious memo is still regularly cited on numerous right-wing websites, and also in articles, videos, and training materials, which quote one another in circular arguments about the Muslim boogeyman coming to take over America. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 655

Categorization

• XREF: The circular self-referencing document network parallels how the Islamophobia industry recursively cites itself, echoing Kumar’s industrial framework.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 655

Related

• Islamophobic terrorism operates on incoherent, circular grievances (similarity 0.78)