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To: bayouranger; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Eye-opening quote from the article:


"So far the conclusions of intelligence analysts assigned to the project, which include both private contractors and career military officials, contradict the commonly held notion that Islam is a peaceful religion hijacked or distorted by terrorists. They've found that the terrorists for the most part are following a war-fighting doctrine articulated through Muhammad in the Quran, elaborated on in the hadiths, codified in Islamic or sharia law, and reinforced by recent interpretations or fatwahs.

"Islam is an ideological engine of war (Jihad)," concludes the sensitive Pentagon briefing paper. And "no one is looking for its off switch."


Now... WHY did it take them this long to look to the source?
9 posted on 01/27/2006 8:22:41 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: cgk; bayouranger; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
....WHY did it take them this long.....

There are 2 answers:

(1) Political Correctness

Nowadays, even as we fight Islam, or Islamofascism, for our lives, it simply is not allowable to say that something, or someone, or some "religion," is evil.

(2) Good Old American Naïveté.

I.E., Methodism is just as good as Episcopalianism, as Judaism, as Congregationalism, as Catholicism, as Islam, as Hinduism, as Bhuddism.

How many times have you heard a well-meaning fellow say; "Hell, we're all God's children ... all worshippin' the same God under different names, ain't we?" It's understandable. There's many a town in our country, and indeed throughout the Western World, where each of the above maintains a place of worship. Most of the time, we interact, live, and work with the people who attend them with minimal problems.

56 posted on 01/27/2006 9:10:52 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Perhaps Islam is not the 'High-Jacked Religion of Peace, but the Religion of High-Jackers)
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To: cgk
Now... WHY did it take them this long to look to the source?

Because political correctness, when ruthlessly enforced as ours has been to date, takes on an inertia which is extremely difficult to overcome...

the infowarrior

103 posted on 01/27/2006 10:39:57 AM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: cgk
"Islam is an ideological engine of war (Jihad)," concludes the sensitive Pentagon briefing paper. And "no one is looking for its off switch.",

A Predator worked just fine the other day.

Between us killing them and their attacks turning non-Islamists radicals against them, that is the off switch.

106 posted on 01/27/2006 10:45:18 AM PST by dirtboy (My new years resolution is to quit using taglines...)
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