“All those in the camp of Jaahiliyyah have the same objectives when it comes to dealing with Islaam and the Muslims. They pursue their goals with clear persistence that never fades with the passage of time, nor does it change as a result of changing circumstances.
Unless we understand this essential law that is inherent in the nature of the relationship between the Muslim community and the camp of Jaahiliyyah, we cannot understand the nature of Islamic Jihaad (striving and struggling), or the motives for that long struggle between the two. Nor can we, without such understanding of this law, comprehend the motives of the early Muslims, or the secrets of the Islamic conquests, or the war that has been waged against Islaam by hostile forces over the 14 centuries of Islamic history. It continues to be waged against the children of Muslim communities, despite the fact that these have sadly abandoned true Islaam, with its holistic approach to life, and are content to keep it in name only.
The war continues to be waged against those latter-day Muslim communities, even those living in the midst of hostile creeds such as communism and idolatry of all forms, whether in Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Albania, India, Kashmir, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Cyprus, Kenya, South Africa or the United States.
All this comes on top of the brutal attempts to exterminate the advocates of Islamic revival in the Muslim world, or more accurately, the world which used to be Muslim.
Communism, idolatry, and other world powers collaborate with, and give active support to, the regimes that undertake such extermination efforts against the advocates of Islamic revival. They pour aid on these governments to the extent that they practically give them every type of help to ensure that they stay in power. Their support often takes the form of tacit or silent approval of what they are doing to those noble believers who seek to persuade people to believe in God and implement His law.”
[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan, 8/51-52]
From The Works Of Shaheed Sayyid Qutb 