A leading natl sec advisor/Islamic law expert explains how/why America is losing to jihadists

TheBlaze Books ^ | 2015-04-13 | Benjamin Weingarten

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Major Stephen Coughlin (Ret.), a decorated intelligence officer known as the Pentagon’s leading expert on Islamic law has authored a forthcoming book, “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of the Jihad,” that serves as a damning indictment of America’s national security establishment in the face of the global jihad, and provides a chilling message to the American people.

We had the opportunity to discuss Coughlin’s new book in a wide-ranging interview that you can find below.

During our discussion, Coughlin goes into great depth on the thesis of his book, providing keen insights into the nature and doctrinal basis of the threat posed by Islamic supremacists, America’s conscious purging of the very lexicon necessary to describe the nature of the threat on its own terms, and as a result of postmodernism, political correctness and the pervasiveness of what Coughlin describes as culturally Marxist narratives — along with the gentle prodding of Muslim Brotherhood influences on our media and other core institutions — the ignorance, incoherence and willful blindness of America’s “stupid” national security establishment.

The end result that Coughlin sees is a completely compromised security situation in which America is able to win in military engagements, while completely losing — to the degree to which it is even fighting — on the ideological warfare battleground where the Muslim Brotherhood and its Western proxies devote a significant amount of their efforts.

This civilizational jihad effort, and Western ignorance of principles like jihad, abrogation and dawah, which Coughlin describes during our interview, evidences itself in everything from what Coughlin sees as the disastrous policy of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), to the Fort Hood shooting, to Iranian nuclear negotiations, which we examine through the lens of the 7th century Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.

Below are several of the more critical portions of our...

[showme_the_Glory]

We want to be friends, they want to kill us?

[Uncle Miltie]

The Blaze needs to hire some writers of the English language who can occasionally get to the point.

[Lurkinanloomin]

When our political leaders try to mislead us about Islam being a religion of peace when it has always been a religion of conquest and slavery, we have no chance at defeating them.
Until such time as we get leaders who understand that Islam teaches there can only be peace when there is only Islam and that they intend for the entire world to submit, we will continue to lose.

Western civilization and Christianity only survived because men like Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski understood that Islam must be defeated. Thomas Jefferson did not have a Koran because he admired Islam, he wanted to know his enemy.

We must acknowledge that Islam is evil before we can defeat it.

[SatinDoll]

No, not even close.

Their religion requires them to be “destroyers”. They cannot have friends who are not Muslim. They must maintain a facade that later drops before they murder you, your family and others like you. They want to force us to submit to Islam.

Islam is the opposite of Judaism and Christianity. Using your God-given liberty to express individual responsibility is not allowed. Instead Islam requires you to destroy individualism wherever it appears.

It is all about death, repression and desolation. Hope is not allowed.