For a moment we were worried.

Documents entered into evidence (see sidebar) in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial in Dallas, Texas, show Muslim Brotherhood thinking in the U.S. in the 1980s and, at least, early 1990s as relishing the destruction of Western civilization and making Islam victorious over all other religions.

"The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] 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 hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions," it states. This process requires a "mastery of the art of 'coalitions,' the art of 'absorption' and the principles of 'cooperation.'"

Success in the U.S. "in establishing an observant Islamic base with power and effectiveness will be the best support and aid to the global movement," it states.

This is the part that allays all my fears, let me tell you:

But some academics and Muslim leaders say that the ideals contained in the documents were written by disgruntled foreign dissidents representing a tiny radical fringe. The documents also pre-date the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the 80-year-old Muslim Brotherhood is now either inactive or largely underground in America.

What a load off my mind to learn that the Muslim Brotherhood is now operating underground.

"Muslim Brotherhood's papers detail plan to seize U.S. Group's takeover plot emerges in Holy Land case." By Jason Trahan, The Dallas Morning News, 9/17/07 (emphasis added).