[SJackson]

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[rbg81]

And if it's religion, are they following a manual of war contained in their scripture?

Hmmm...ya think so? I'm glad Captain Obvious is finally on the case.

[Michael Goldsberry]

"Muhammad's behaviors today would be defined as radical,"

Ya' think?

[PeteB570]

'Bout time.

[Chaguito]

Today we are confronted with a stateless threat that does not have at the strategic level targetable entities: no capitals, no economic base,,"

If they are really this ignorant, they are not even yet on the learning curve.

[highlander_UW]

Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy texts to answer whether Islam is being radicalized by the terrorists or is already radical. Military brass want a better understanding of what's motivating the insurgents in Iraq and the terrorists around the globe, including those inside America who may be preparing to strike domestic military bases.

It's now 4 years since 9/11 and they're just NOW looking at the Quran to see if Islamic terrorists might be following Islam accurately?!

[USF]

Seeing the light PING.

[Sometimes A River]

bumpers

[heldmyw]

QUOTE: "Western leaders can no longer afford to overlook the "cult characteristics of Islam."

Perhaps a Kool-Aid solution?

[Aquinasfan]

Four years into the war on terror, U.S. intelligence officials tell me there are no baseline studies of the Muslim prophet Muhammad or his ideological or military doctrine found at either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency, or even the war colleges.

This is either gross negligence or kowtowing to political correctness. Neither is a legitimate excuse for this dereliction of duty.

[dennisw]

btt

[G.Mason]

P/C is undoubtably a factor in the fight against Islam.

The fact that there are over 1,000,000,000 [ONE BILLION] of these human defectives running around in the world (approximately 1,000,000 [ONE MILLION] in the U.S.A.) may, undoubtedly, be a factor in why politicians, world wide, are kissing their backsides.

Now ... How does one get one billion in one place, and at one time, for an X-Ray photograph?

[Emmett McCarthy]

I don't remember the full quote, but didn't Ann Coulter say something to the effect that we need to invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them all to Christianity? The last time we failed to finish the job - with the Crusades - and it looks like this time we won't even start the job. The current situation in Australia should be a lesson for us.

[dennisw]

"Muhammad's behaviors today would be defined as radical," the defense document says, and Muslims today are commanded by their "militant" holy book to follow his example. It adds: Western leaders can no longer afford to overlook the "cult characteristics of Islam."

As radically murderous as Stalin, Hitler or Mao. 

Muhammad's Koran= Hitler's Mein Kampf= Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book

[MattinNJ]

Welcome to the party pal.

[Beckwith]

1.6 Billion of the rascals and it's the fastest growing religion on the planet.



Look what's happening in Australia and they got less than 2% of the religion-of-peace-people.

Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you!

[angkor]

the Pentagon develops a new strategy to deal with the threat from Islamic terrorists through its little-known intelligence agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity or CIFA, which staffs hundreds of investigators and analysts

I surely hope the Pentagon doesn't require "hundreds of investigators" to come to the sames conclusions that Robert Spencer, Bruce Thornton, Victor Davis Hanson, Paul Sperry, and Daniel Pipes present to us on a daily basis.

As Bruce Thornton (VDH's colleague) has said, "moderate Muslims" are the abberation, while jihadists are simply following the commands of the Koran and the Hadiths.

[Semper Paratus]

You can't hope to win a war until you figure out what you're fighting!

[Realism]

I'm sure they are not as ignorant to the situation as this suggests. It's all motivated to be politically correct at least until the public begins to catch on then it just becomes embarrassing.

[onedoug]

Islamist death cult.