Posted on 01/15/2008 7:13:51 PM PST by K-oneTexas
But defense and military officials supportive of Mr. Coughlin said the real reason is that critics, like Mr. Islam. want him sidelined because they oppose his hard-to-refute views on the relationship between Islamic law and Islamist jihad doctrine. Those views have triggered a harsh debate challenging the widespread and politically correct view of Islam as a religion of peace hijacked by extremists.
So how does one explain the prevailing assumption that Islam does not stand for such violence undertaken in its name with the fact that its laws and education materials validate the very acts undertaken by "extremists" in Iraq?
... the first "radicalizing" lesson that Saudi youth receive that motivates them to travel to Iraq and fight Coalition forces does not come from "extremists" groups like Al Qaeda, but rather is taught as part of Saudi Arabia's standard secondary school curriculum.
Hence, groups like Al-Qaeda can reasonably claim that they are simply executing the same legal requirements that Muslim governments require their students be taught. An analysis that relied on Islamic law to assess bin Laden's claim that Islamic law supports his 1996 fatwa would most likely have generated different results than an analysis that ignored it.
...first, we do not understand the Islamic components to the WOT [War on Terror]; second, Muslim adversaries conceptualize the threat in authentic Islamic terms that; third, appear to drive their decision making thereby; fourth, making an Islamic vision a component of adversaries' doctrine which; fifth, the Underlying Causes model does not account for and cannot compensate for by reference to alternative academic (behavioral, sociological, economic, psychological, or anthropological) models.
Because Islamic law matters to Muslims, in the WOT, it should also matter to us.
Given both our inability to develop a descriptively accurate understanding of the nature of the enemy and our broad frustration with the current state of affairs in the WOT, it may be time to ponder deeply what was meant when Majid Khadduri [in his seminal "War and Peace in the Law of Islam"] said that "the universality of Islam, in its all embracing creed, is imposed on all believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military" that Pakistani Brigadier S.K. Malik said was the point [ in "The Qur'anic Concept of War"] where Qur'anic concepts of war are won-at the war of will phase. To break from the slow submission cycle that leads to the destruction of our confidence, a recommitment to a process driven by facts along with an associated commitment to ruthlessly go wherever those facts may take us, is recommended. With IPB [Intelligence Preparation for the Battlefield], we already have a methodology capable of taking us down that path.
...to get readers to believe the positions asserted but rather to convince them to submit those assertions to an intense threat analysis in furtherance of generating facts able to service a functional threat model of the enemy in the WOT
If, in furtherance of creating a working threat model, points in this thesis are successfully challenged, this thesis will still have served its purpose. Having said that, it is the position of this thesis that it will not fail if decision makers and analysts return to an IPB [Intelligence Preparation for the Battlefield] methodology that begins with an unconstrained, undelegated, systematic, factual analysis of the threat doctrine that the enemy self-identifies as being driven by Islamic law. Following such a process has the benefit of meeting professional standards for competent analysis. This thesis cannot succeed, however, if the response is to outsource it to subject matter experts willing to volunteer their information under the sole condition that it be accepted both uncritically and unconditionally. This is not only true because such an approach fails to meet the professional standard, but also because it fails the standard that will lead to defeat in the WOT.
..hit the mark in explaining how jihadists use the Koran to justify their actions. Your [Coughlin's] presentation has armed service men and women with more intellectual ammunition to take the fight to the enemy.
This high-level effort to, in effect, deny the connection between Islamic law and what the military calls the "enemy threat doctrine" should ring bells, not just in the military, but in Congress, which obviously has Pentagon oversight responsibilities. When such advice brings the military's woefully belated education on jihad to a halt, it becomes shockingly clear that the Pentagon is more concerned with political correctness than protecting the nation.
I think this case was discussed on Hannity and Colems last week...not sure but there was a guy named Emmerson I think it was, who is a terrorism expert and he was discussing the firing of someone who would not water down his report to satisfy some man who was of Islamic faith..and not only that implied that there are Islamo types within our govt now..wish I could recall the whole show..maybe someone out there can fill in the blanks for me..We had an interruption so I was not able to get the whole of the story but this article sounds like the discussion they were having.
Coughlin backed up his statements with irrefutable info.
Unfortunately he had to show the Commander in Chief was wrong with the "Islam is a religion of peace statement. When you say the "Emperor has no clothes on", you are going to be in trouble. - Tom
In my 61 years, paying close attention in at least 35 of them, I have not seen such a great cloud of small people as America now has in important positions. The mental image is of Gulliver washed up on the beach in the land of the Lilliputians. Bound down and immobilized by ... Lilliputians.
God help us.
In my 61 years, paying close attention in at least 35 of them, I have not seen such a great cloud of small people as America now has in important positions. The mental image is of Gulliver washed up on the beach in the land of the Lilliputians. Bound down and immobilized by ... Lilliputians.
God help us.
Also:
Cross thread References, with Photos of Hashem Islam:
More on England and Islam ( Hasham Islam , aide to England turfs anti jihadist scholar and expert)
Inside the Ring--Coughlin sacked [Pentagon Islamist Analyst]
The termination of Stephen Coughlin on the Joint Staff is an act of intellectual cowardice
The Implications of the Dismissal of Stephen Coughlin, Joint Staff, Pentagon [Jihad Watch]
Islam is a religion of peace as long as you turn a blind eye to the way their scholars (?) currently interpret it. Almost without exception they backwards engineer their holy scriptures to provide justification for rule by an elite they serve. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s UN speech provides a good example. I am amazed so few can see the rigidly maintained disconnect between the religious faith so many want to believe has vitality, and the operative political, social dictates.
He initially states, All Divine prophets from the Prophet Adam (peace be upon him), to the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him), to the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him), and to the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) have all called humanity to monotheism, justice, brotherhood, love, and compassion. He invites Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers to prayerfully study all their Holy writings in context without intermediaries to discover how they should live, interact, and direct their governments.
He finally says, Bestow upon humanity that thirsts for justice the perfect human being promised to all of you, and make us among his followers and among those who strive for his return and cause. This statement provides a derivative interpretation of the prophets further particularized by Hojjatieh society teaching of striving for, rather than accepting this perfect human. This interpretation legitimizes Ahmadinejads despotic aims and spiritualizes populist submission as ways to promote the chaos hastening return of the Twelfth Imam.
BTTT
Political correctness is killing us.
bttt
with Photos of Hashem Islam:
thanks
COLMES: We only have a moment left. We have a FOX News producer at the Pentagon who is reporting that we have spoken with people in the Pentagon who are claiming that the defense intelligence agency, they employ Coughlin through a contract.
And it was Rear Admiral David Dorset, director of intelligence for the joint staffs, who decided not the renew his contract for fiscal purposes. It had nothing to do whatsoever with Islam, the person you’re fingering as being responsible for his dismissal.
Another “PC” Navy guy doing Islam’s dirty work? What’s up with the Navy?
The Pentagon is more conceerned with political correctness than protecting the nation.
“...decided not the renew his contract for fiscal purposes...”
So he’s saying that they didn’t have the contract money for ONE person?
What a load of pure unadulterated crap.
To quote Bernstein (or was that Woodward?): It’s not the crime it’s the cover-up.
Well if they didn’t have enough money, let’s let Islam go, instead, since his widdle feewings get hurt so easily.
Isalm was working for DoD whereas Coughlin was working for the Joint Staff?
I dunno
Thanks for pinging. Great article. Thank you Major Coughlin. America’s finest! BTTT!
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