Ten Arabic Words: A challenge to national security professionals engaged in the Global War On Terror ... by Matthew Bracken.
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Thanks, Vel.
Posted on 05/22/2016 7:32:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Yes it does. :)
If you were working for Army intelligence in 1940, and a new U.S. govt regime came in that forbade you to every type or speak the words Nazi, National Socialist, Gestapo, SS, Hitler etc, that would constitute deliberate sabotage from above, and if were allowed to stand, it would constitute dereliction of duty from below.
Today, we have literally farmed out our intelligence analysis to “Moderate Nazis” whom we believe to be our friends, while disallowing our own analysts from doing it.
If you’re cool with that, well, I’m not.
The deliberately insulting tone was meant to be a slap in the face to careerists who are just marking time until retirement and (they hope) pensions.
You cannot be a man of honor if you keep your head down and you countenance dishonor all around you, just to keep (you hope) your pension.
That is dishonorable.
I was trying to provoke the senior officer corps and civilian SES by setting the bar at 8/10.
They are supposed to be understanding all of this for a living, and they are not doing it. See my comment to X above.
I call them taqiyya muslims. Their mission is to spread fairy tales about tolerant, kind, sweet, peaceful islam, until the head-choppers are in position for jihad. Moderate muslims are here to switch off our defenses, while preparing for the jihadists.
I framed it around a quiz to (I hope) help it to spread around military and intelligence work spaces. The old competitive thing. If Joe got a 70, he’ll want his co-workers to test themselves as well. At least, that was the gimmick I was attempting.
Thanks.
I was thinking along those lines as well. A lot safer than being a motorized parachute man leafletting a gun control rally on the DC Mall.
No electricity, no elections, emergency rule.
That’s got the potential for ending very badly ... especially for the parachute man.
Strictly speaking, there’s no constitutional requirement for a “popular” vote.
Without electricity, if the several state legislatures could get together enough members to each form a quorum, they could select electors and send in the results of their vote ... or the House could select a president.
Or, the incumbent could declare himself Emperor For Life and dare anyone to say otherwise.
Then it’s time for the “kinetic change of command”.
It's not about throwing around insults. The goal is to understand what Islam is really about. If you know the ten words, you are at least on the road to achieving such knowledge.
8/10
...suck
his means, for example, that the official position of the OIC is that Muslims who leave the faith should be killed, and that any faithful Muslim who kills an apostate ex-Muslim has done no sin, but instead should be thanked and congratulated for the deed. It’s the same with adulterers: they should die, and killing an adulterer is no crime.
Isn’t Bill Clinton a well known adulterer? Why have there been no Islamic attempts on his life?
He’s just a kafir. Literally sub-human filth. They don’t care if a kafir fornicates with swine.
But if one of their daughters is caught with an American male friend, she’s toast, and even if dad/uncles go to jail, they have done no sin under shariah, but have upheld the family honor.
Thank you MB for the courageous writings and for the link to GoV.
The 3 years I lived in Cairo taught me that these Muslims are not of our world. The islamic culture skipped the religious reformation, enlightenment, political revolution, industrialization age, air age, jet age, space age, and information age, and just got dragged into the modern era with a cultural reference rooted in a seventh century predatory social code. The contrast make the normal people subjected to islam neurotic, at best, pathological, suicidal and homicidal at worst.
There is nothing we can do against this social mental illness other than defend ourselves, and drive them out, where possible. Liberalism makes that imperative very difficult, perhaps even never possible, I don’t know.
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Ten Arabic Words: A challenge to national security professionals engaged in the Global War On Terror ... by Matthew Bracken.
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1st time I ever read abot the term “Hijra”.
Helps to explain all this loony transgenderism stuff going about us.
This is my capsule summary of Islam, and why it’s unreformable, from another essay I wrote.
1. ISLAM
Islam is similar to a self-replicating supercomputer virus. It is a hydra-headed monster, designed by its creators to be an unstoppable formula for global conquest. It’s almost impossible to eradicate, because it has no central brain or control center. Islam is like a starfish: when you cut off a limb, another grows to replace it. The names of the Muslim leaders, and the names of their Islamic groups, are transitory and ultimately unimportant. Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are succeeded by Al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, but they will all pass from the scene and be replaced by others. While Muslim leaders and regimes have come and gone, Islam itself has remained steadfastly at war with the non-Muslim world for 1,400 years.
Islam does not recognize secular national boundaries. To devout Muslims, there are only two significant realms of the world. First is the Dar al-Islam—the House of Islam, which is the land of the believers. The other is the Dar al-Harb—the House of War, which must be made Islamic by any means, including violent jihad. The expansion of Islam is sometimes held in check for long periods, but more often Islam is on the march, acquiring new territory. Once conquered by Islam, territory is rarely taken back, Spain being a notable exception.
The Muslim world produces almost no books or new inventions. Short of finding oil under their feet, most Islamic nations are backward and impoverished. So wherein lies the power source for Islam’s nearly constant expansion over the past fourteen centuries? The motor and the battery of Islam are the Koran and the Hadith, or sayings of Mohammed. A messianic Mahdi, Caliph or Ayatollah with sufficient charisma can accelerate Islam’s pace of conquest, but individual men are not the driving force.
Secular “Muslim in name only” strongmen from Saddam Hussein to Muamar Qadafi can hold Islamism in check for a period with brutal methods, but strongmen are often assassinated or otherwise removed from power, and in any event, they cannot live forever. Once the secular strongmen are gone, fanatical mullahs are able to stir their zealous Muslim followers into sufficient ardor to reinstall a radical Islamist regime under Sharia Law, according to the Koran.
This pattern of secular strongmen being followed by fanatical Islamist leaders has recurred many times over the past millennia and longer. Do not be fooled by modernists like King Abdullah of Jordan. To the true believer of Islam, any king or strongman is never more than a rifle shot or grenade toss away from being kinetically deposed, and replaced by another Islamist fanatic.
The persistent virulence of Mohammed’s 7th Century plan for global domination means that it is always ready to erupt in a fresh outbreak. Islam is like a brushfire or ringworm infection: it is dead and barren within the ring, but flares up where it parasitically feeds off the healthy non-Islamic societies around it. What produces this uniquely fanatical motivation, from within nations and peoples that otherwise seem devoid of energy and new ideas?
The motivation lies within the words of the Koran and Hadith. Most simply distilled, in the earthly realm, these Islamic texts offer immoral men sanction for thrill-killing, looting, raping, and capturing infidel slaves, and when these jihadists are killed, they are promised a perpetual orgy with seventy-two nubile virgin slave girls in Mohammed’s sick, evil and perverted Muslim paradise. Unlike the Jewish and Christian Bibles, the Koran and Hadith appeal not to man’s better angels, but to the darkest aspects of human nature. (Tellingly, Moses and Jesus are said to have climbed to mountaintops to communicate with their God, while Mohammed received his messages from Allah deep inside a bat cave.)
A meaningful or permanent reformation of Islam is impossible, because a new generation of fanatics, wielding the unexpurgated Koran and Hadith as their weapons, will always declare the reformists to be apostates and murder them. In Islam, the fanatics who are holding the unalterable Koran in one hand and a sword in the other always stand ready to seize complete power and exterminate their enemies.
This latent danger breeds fear and causes nearly all non-Muslims to be carefully circumspect in their dealings with Muslims, lest they lose their heads at a later date. This intentionally fostered fear of Islam is used as a cudgel against those who would otherwise resist its domination. The immutable Koran is the constant fountainhead of bloody Islamic conquest. Radical Islam is the pure Islam, the Koranic Islam, the real Islam.
Anyone who does not understand this bitter reality is dangerously ignorant of the past 1,400 years of human history.
OUTSTANDING ping, LucyT. Thanks.
As important as anything you’ve ever written. Thank you, sir.
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