A video of Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi calling on the U.S. government to wage jihad for Allah in Syria, is currently making the rounds on Arabic media and Facebook, to mockery and dismay.

In the recorded speech, Qaradawi—one of the most influential Islamic clerics in the world, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine, and head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars—sarcastically thanks the U.S. for supporting the “freedom fighters” in Syria, adding that “Allah willing, your [U.S.] aid will increase.”

Then, while working himself up because the U.S is only providing weapons to the jihadis in Syria, as opposed to directly intervening, Qaradawi declares in frustration: “We want America to take a manly stand—a stand for Allah!”

Needless to say, all Muslim Brotherhood opponents in the region are pointing to this as yet more proof that Qaradawi and the Brotherhood are mercenaries who interpret jihad any which way, so long as it helps them consolidate power: otherwise, how can “infidel” America take “a stand for Allah” by waging jihad on fellow Muslims?

It should further be noted that the classic formulation of the Arabic word jihad, as in “fight,” appears in the Koran with the addition fi sabil Allah, that is, “fight in the cause of Allah.”

In other words, calling on the U.S. to strike Syria’s Bashar Assad—and calling it “a stand for Allah”—is essentially synonymous with calling on the U.S. to fight “in the cause of Allah.”

Amazingly, then, Qaradawi employs classical jihadi rhetoric to incite American leadership to action.

As one televised political commentator in Egypt discussing this anecdote put it,

Sheikh Qaradawi of course is the great and prominent Sheikh of Jihad, who issues those famous fatwas we all know of to kill and destroy on his orders. Really, the man has reached the point where he is now calling on America to wage jihad and take a stand for Allah. No comment; what’s there to say at this point?... Now jihad is being asked of America and to be waged against Muslims.

Nor is it any secret that this administration does act on the calls of Qaradawi. As Clare Lopez summarizes for the Gatestone Institute:

[T]he current administration consistently and repeatedly appeared to respond eagerly to the calls for revolution from the Muslim Brotherhood's senior Islamic scholar, Yousef al-Qaradawi. When al-Qaradawi said that Mubarak had to go, the U.S. waited a whole three days before throwing America's key ally in the Middle East for over three decades under the bus. When al-Qaradawi called for Libyan rebels to kill Muammar Qaddafi (so the al-Qa'eda jihadis in his jails could get out and join the revolution), the U.S. led the Western military campaign that brought al-Qa'eda, the MB, and chaos to Libya. And when al-Qaradawi issued a call for jihad in Syria, in early June 2013, the U.S. quickly issued an invitation to Abdullah bin Bayyah (al-Qaradawi's vice president at the International Union of Muslim Scholars), who told an Al-Jazeera reporter that, “We demand Washington take a greater role in [Syria].” It took the U.S. less than one week after al-Qaradawi's fatwa to announce authorization of stepped-up military aid to the al-Qa'eda-and-Brotherhood-dominated Syrian rebels. The White House announcement came just a single day after bin Bayyah met with National Security and other senior administration officials.

The problem, then, is not that Qaradawi has in desperate senility confused the U.S. with the jihadis, but rather that he may know that prominent elements of U.S. leadership are committed to struggling “in the cause of Allah”—and so he unwittingly employed jihadi rhetoric to remind them of their duty.

Unfortunately, in today’s surreal climate of U.S. politics, no interpretation is so absurd as to be implausible.

An American college abandons its fifty-year-old Christian nickname and CAIR "applauds their effort." One more example of Western — and Christian — capitulation to the forces of "multiculturalism," "pluralism," "diversity," and of course, political correctness, despite assertions otherwise.

A Christian college in Wisconsin is dropping its “Crusaders” nickname after nearly 50 years, claiming the moniker has become outdated in a “more global society,” university officials told FoxNews.com. Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown and its Division III athletic teams have used the name since its founding in 1968. Matt Davis, the university’s executive vice president, said no complaints have been received by the school and stressed that it coincides with its name change from Maranatha Baptist College in December. “But I also agree that times change and we understand that context changes,” Davis told FoxNews.com. “Our world has changed since 9/11 and we’ve become a more global society with the Internet. The heartbeat behind this was not political correctness, but expanded opportunities for our students.”... Ibrahim Hooper, communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told FoxNews.com he welcomed the "Crusaders" change, but said he found team names or mascots that incorporate race or ethnicity more problematic, particularly those pertaining to Native Americans. "I welcome the spirit behind the change," Hooper said. "It's obvious they thought about this. I applaud their effort."

According to Egyptian journalist, Dr. Lamis Gabar, one of many covering the Morsi trials, the deposed president and Muslim Brotherhood member once said to the Egyptian-born, former Muslim Brotherhood member and current al-Qaeda leader, Ayman Zawahiri: "You are our partners in the governance of Egypt."

Yet one more claim to be added to the many others, including from jihadis, that the Morsi government was working hand-in-hand with al-Qaeda.

Egyptian security sources said that last night during heavy clashes with Islamist militant groups in northern Sinai, eight takfiri members were killed (takfiris are militant Muslims who kill other Muslims on the accusation that the latter are not Muslim enough).

The clashes took place in the region of Sheikh Zawid, where earlier reports had said militant groups were terrorizing the civilian population and using women and children as human shields. Sources also said that several weapon caches were destroyed or seized.

Six of the eight slain were members of the jihadi organization Ansar Bayt al-Muqadis, an organization founded in 2011 and primarily focused, as evinced by its name — "Supporters of Jerusalem" — on attacking Israel from northern Sinai.

However, now that the Muslim Brotherhood and former president Morsi have been ousted in Egypt, the group has set its eyes on the military rulers of the nation, accusing them of apostasy from Islam. Among other things, the group claimed responsibility for the devastating car bomb that killed four people in Cairo last week.

Nabil Na'im, a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (which was formerly headed by al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri) has been exposing the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic jihadis, including al-Qaeda, and says that the group is funded by Khairat al-Shater, the currently imprisoned number two man of the Brotherhood.

Of note is the fact that, although al-Shater was never part of the Morsi government, U.S. diplomats often met with him, including Ambassador Anne Patterson and Sen. John McCain.