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CAIR Enraged by ROTC Exercise Featuring Jihadis as Enemies
PJ Media ^ | 05/18/2018 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 05/18/2018 7:59:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A ridiculous article last Thursday in UCLA’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, reveals the mindset of those who believe that “Islamophobia” is a bigger threat than jihad terror, and reveals yet again the insidious agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once,” writes the article’s author, Omar Said, “but the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.”

Who are American troops facing in Afghanistan? Methodists?

Said complained:

During a training held by UCLA’s and California State University, Fresno’s Army ROTCs in early April, students acting as enemy soldiers in combat simulations wore clothing commonly worn by civilians in Arab countries. The clothing included kufiyyas and iqals, which are better known as the flowing scarves Arab men traditionally wear on their heads.

It might seem incongruous and wrong for the enemy combatants in the exercise to be dressed as civilians, until one recalls that the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the rest don’t usually march out in full uniform. Also, they often base their activity in civilian areas in order to claim that U.S. strikes hit non-combatants so that they might win points in the ongoing propaganda war.

In any case, the civilian dress was not the only aspect of this exercise that enraged Said. He noted:

At one point in the training, Maj. Tyrone Vargas, the executive officer of the battalion and a UCLA assistant adjunct professor of military science, held a rocket-propelled grenade above his head and said “Allahu akbar” in the presence of cadets. Vargas later told The Bruin that this had been a way to teach cadets how they would need to decide

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; jihadis; rotc

1 posted on 05/18/2018 7:59:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

CAIR is to the Moslem Brotherhood what Sinn Fein is to the IRA.


2 posted on 05/18/2018 8:01:36 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, only white Christian Republicans should be used as enemies.


3 posted on 05/18/2018 8:02:49 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: SeekAndFind

CAIR is enraged? Good.


4 posted on 05/18/2018 8:04:20 AM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t cair.


5 posted on 05/18/2018 8:04:39 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: SeekAndFind

F*** CAIR.


6 posted on 05/18/2018 8:12:23 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SeekAndFind

enraged muslim isn’t that like wet water?


7 posted on 05/18/2018 8:12:54 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t this common in Army boot camp training today?


8 posted on 05/18/2018 8:22:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: rjsimmon
CAIR is to the Moslem Brotherhood what Sinn Fein is to the IRA.

More like what the German-American Bund was to Nazi Germany.
9 posted on 05/18/2018 8:25:29 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fair is the enemy


10 posted on 05/18/2018 8:25:42 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: Rebelbase
Isn’t this common in Army boot camp training today?

I think the Moslem pressure groups have been able to have most all references to Islam removed from military training manuals and courses, especially during the Obama years.

11 posted on 05/18/2018 8:31:14 AM PDT by Will88
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To: SeekAndFind

So why hasn’t the FBI raided terrorist training camps here in the US??


12 posted on 05/18/2018 8:45:47 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: SeekAndFind

... maybe the ROTC wanted the training to seem realistic. Beyond posturing, isn’t armed conflict with jihadi realistic? And, given the number of incidents which have occurred, including thousands of innocent deaths, there is ample evidence a professional could recognize & use to create a realistic simulation ...


13 posted on 05/18/2018 9:12:33 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (No tagline provided...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage
14 posted on 05/18/2018 9:17:19 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: SeekAndFind
“It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once,” writes the article’s author, Omar Said, “but the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.”

Actually, it is CAIR who has stereotyped 3.5 million (sic) American Muslims as terrorists.

Hmmm... Exactly why does CAIR believe that fighting jihadists means that large numbers of American Muslims are also terrorists? Could it be that they might "know something"?

15 posted on 05/18/2018 9:19:34 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: SeekAndFind

The ROTC needs to conduct live fire exercises...Could just hire some ragheads off of the welfare rolls...


16 posted on 05/18/2018 11:13:31 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Who should be used as enemies? The Amish? Women's quilting club?

It only makes sense to use as enemies those who actually are our enemies.

17 posted on 05/18/2018 11:17:13 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: SeekAndFind
CAIR is the 'Council of Asshole Idiots Rejects' 😀
18 posted on 05/18/2018 6:06:48 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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