Jihad is not, as some Western apologists claim, simply a striving for individual perfection. Nor is jihad merely a series of unrelated clashes involving groups of Islamists, each with their own limited objectives. The goals and motives of jihad are detailed in Islamic texts and by Islamic teachers, and the adherents of this ideology are willing and able to use the democratic freedoms in Europe and the U.S. to a dance their objectives by stealth means. What Americans Need to Know About Jihad is an essential primer about the radical, expansionist, totalitarian ideology that seeks to establish a global Islamic state.