Posted on 06/13/2019 4:04:05 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A Muslim activist group has pressured the U.S. Army War College into postponing a speech by Ray Ibrahim, an expert on the historical roots of Islamic terrorism, after the group falsely labeled him as a racist and “Islamophobe,” he said.
The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group critics say is linked to the Islamist international group Muslim Brotherhood, protested the speech in a letter to the college superintendent, Army Maj. Gen. John S. Kem, and provost James G. Breckenridge. Purporting to represent the “Muslim community” in Pennsylvania, CAIR stated that it opposed Mr. Ibrahim’s planned June 19 speech on “Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West,” the title of his latest book.
Mr. Ibrahim said the group set up straw man arguments against him in a smear campaign that involved taking his statements out of context.
The War College initially informed Mr. Ibrahim that the lecture could proceed despite the opposition. But after CAIR organized a publicity campaign alleging Mr. Ibrahim was a white nationalist, the college buckled to the group’s pressure.
Robert Martin, a spokesman for the Army War College, said Mr. Ibrahim’s speech was postponed so the Army education unit can “pair Mr. Ibrahim’s military history insights in close proximity with another historical perspective, at a time when [the Army War College] curriculum has addressed historical analysis of influences on conflict.” He did not respond when asked about the pressure from CAIR.
Mr. Ibrahim said the speech was canceled and the college’s claim of a postponement is not correct.
His 352-page book covers nearly 14 centuries in great detail, and CAIR provided no documentation for any research shortcomings in its campaign against him.
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Served w/him in Afcrapistan. A good man then.
Stars on the shoulders tend to screw up one’s perspective, to say the least.
Beyond disappointing.
Sometimes I think we’ve had it.
HE cancelled ?
Translation: an armchair wanna-be perfumed prince
Jihad continues apace.
As opposed to this MUST READ easy by JOSEPH C. MYERS from the U.S. Army War College...
The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”— Majid Khadduri
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/Parameters/articles/06winter/win-ess.pdf
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