Islam, 'Mindslaughter,' and the Catastrophic 'Lewis Doctrine'

PJ Media ^ | 22 Aug, 2016 | ANDREW G. BOSTOM

[MtnClimber]

The following is the text of a speech delivered August 21, 2016 at the American Freedom Alliance conference in Los Angeles entitled: “Islam and Western Civilization: Can They Co-Exist?”

Col. Douglas MacGregor is a respected military strategist who was a heroic tank commander during the 1991 Iraq war.

As the Gen McChrystal scandal broke in 2010, Col MacGregor, who attended West Point with McChrystal, and was angered by the US military’s disastrous Iraq and Afghanistan “nation building” efforts, commented accurately:

The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.

Successful lobbying for that miserably failed utopianism was accomplished by bowdlerizing Islam—indeed mindslaughtering it, a powerful term I will introduce. My discussion will identify the ultimate source of “gravitas” for that bowdlerization process, and key elements of the Islam—not “Islamism,” or “radical Islam”—bowdlerized.

[MtnClimber]

How can we civilize those who don’t want to be civilized and want to kill us.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/clashofcivilizations.htm

[PGR88]

The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.

We spent a trillion dollars, and now Obama and the Islamic world are reshaping us.