Posted on 05/05/2016 4:58:57 AM PDT by RightSideNews
It Is A Mixture Of Stealth And Kinetic Jihad
By Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.), Right Side News
The glaring problem with this Western intellectual judgment was that it was based on the cognitive mirror-imaging fallacy that assumes non-Westerners think, act, and have exactly the same social values as people of Western (U.S.-European) heritage, such as a desire for democracy, equality before the law, gender, minority and homosexual equality, and all manner of social fairness. Obviously the believer in this mirror-imaging fallacy never investigated Islamic scripture, theology, and jurisprudence. In fact, the holders of such a fact-free concept of Islam, not only were totally wrong, they willfully and purposefully refused to learn the truth. Nothing tells the story of this politically correct foolishness more graphically than the ordeal of Maj. Stephen Coughlin (USAR) who was working in the Pentagon in the capacity of civilian contractor in the J-2 (Intelligence) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as detailed in his book, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America In The Face Of Jihad.
Stephen Coughlin concentrated his analysis of Americas avowed Islamic enemys doctrinal motivations as revealed in the Islamic Quran, Sunna, Sira, and Sharia, while the standard and preferred method of others was to use social science modeling and dubious academic constructs. Coughlins evidentiary analysis greatly surpassed the competing analyses, resulting in increasing demand for Coughlin to present his conclusions in briefings, which he labeled Red Pill Briefings. This characterization was in reference to the Red Pill given in the science fiction movie, The Matrix, that enabled seeing the enemy as he really is. In other words, Coughlins analysis briefing permitted distinctly seeing and understanding the actual Islamic jihadists and their motivations in the GWOT, instead of being presented the allegedly misguided, extremist Muslims that had hijacked the Islamic religion and their academically-manufactured, politically correct motives. Coughlins underlying belief that inspired his analysis and briefings was ignorance kills. Unfortunately, willful ignorance is just what the U.S. Government chose in formulating national security policy in responding to Islamic jihad under both presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obamas administrations.
Immediately following 9/11, in order to develop a U.S. military, law enforcement, and government strategy that is politically correct and Islam-ignorant, Bush established the false planning premise that Islam is peace. Bushs false planning premise underpinned the futile and expensive U.S. actions like counterinsurgency and nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then the Bush Defense Department declared and enforced an Islamic-jihad-knowledge-free-zone in the Pentagon through the prohibition of study and analysis of the enemys strategic war doctrine by firing Stephen Coughlin from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Next, in order to continue on the irresponsible course of being Islam-ignorant, Obamas National Security Council removed terms like militant Islamic radicalism from the 2010 National Security Strategy and substituted terms like violent extremism and (undefined) terrorism. From there the Obama administrations obstructive effort became even more debilitating when Islamist and militant Arabic groups, representing the Muslim Brotherhood and its front groups, plus the jihadist Hamas terror organization, demanded that the FBI purge its training materials of all information which the Islamists found offensive to their religious sensibilities. Such offensive materials included verbatim jihadist mandates in Islamic scripture. Unsurprisingly, Obama ordered that this Muslim request be carried out. The same purge of Islam-associated terminology was conducted with military training materials.
But, not only has Obama banned the use of words that accurately describe the inherent imperialist aggression of Islam, e.g., militant Islamic radicalism, jihad, Sharia, Islamic terrorism, etc., in the National Security Strategy and in official correspondence and discourse he has also attempted to conceal the barbarity of Islam by refusing to acknowledge acts of Islamic jihad for what they actually are as he did at Ft. Hood.
Dar al-Harb: Territory of war. Denotes the territories bordering on Dar al-Islam (territory of Islam), whose leaders are called upon to convert to Islam. Jurists trace the concept to Muhammad, whose messages to the Persian, Abyssinian, and Byzantine emperors demanded that they choose between conversion and war.
Dar al-Islam: Territory of Islam. Region of Muslim sovereignty where Islamic law prevails.
When this division of the globe into the world of jihad and world of Sharia is considered along with Mohammads declaration of unending jihad until Islam conquers the world, the on-going clash of civilizations is undeniable and irrefutable.
Bukhari (2:24) - "Allah's Apostle said: I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle. Although Bush and Obama contend that we are not at war with Islam, Islam is at war with us. Furthermore, the jihadists believe they have been at war with the infidel forces we represent to them since the founding of Islam. It is impossible and illogical to assert that only one side is at war. It would be as if we had tried to pretend that only the Japanese were at war with us, but we were not at war with them after they attacked us at Pearl Harbor. However, in the 21st century, Bush and Obama have actually tried to elude reality and pretend that we are not at war with the Islamic jihadists who attacked us on 9/11 (and numerous times before and since), thereby defying the logic that there cannot be a war only waged by one side.
The purported reason given by Bush and Obama for denying we are at war with Islam is that they dont want to give cause for the jihadists to inflame the Islamic world umma (world Islamic community) into believing that the U.S. is engaged in a religious war against Islam. But the simple truth is that such a belief is ingrained in the Muslim religion worldwide, irrespective of whether U.S. presidents say it or not. The perennial enemy other concept is baked into Islam.
There is another reason why Islam is at war with us that is also built into the very fabric of the religion of Islam. Mohammads genius was to unite feuding Bedouin tribes into a cohesive polity by instilling a shared tribal mentality through creating a tribal religion that had the imprimatur of the God that Mohammad appropriated from Judaism and Christianity. Mohammads genius is explained by the Middle East Quarterly:
Building on the tribal system, Muhammad framed an inclusive structure within which the tribes had a common, God-given identity as Muslims. This imbued the tribes with a common interest and common project. But unification was only possible by extending the basic tribal principle of balanced opposition. This Muhammad did by opposing the Muslim to the infidel, and the dar al-Islam, the land of Islam and peace, to the dar al-harb, the land of the infidels and conflict. He raised balanced opposition to a higher structural level as the new Muslim tribes unified in the face of the infidel enemy. Bedouin raiding became sanctified as an act of religious duty. With every successful battle against unbelievers, more Bedouin joined the umma. Once united, the Bedouin warriors turned outward, teaching the world the meaning of jihad, which some academics today say means only struggle but which, in the context of early Islamic writing and theological debates, was understood as holy war.Tribes cannot exist without enemies, and Islam cannot exist without the clash of civilizations.Tribal identity coalesces in opposition to the "other." Common Muslim attitudes toward non-Muslims reflect the influence of these tribal values. The historical evidence for the degradation of Christian and Jewish dhimmi [subjugated religious minority] in Muslim lands is overwhelming, both in quantity and near unanimity in substance.
It is the jihadists initial imposition of Sharia law in conquered territory and the Quran option to become a dhimmi that permit the Islamic claim that they do not forcibly convert non-believers to Islam.
Just about everything the U.S. has attempted since 9/11 in the GWOT to stem the Islamic jihad has been ineffective or inconclusive (aside from killing bin Laden and droning some jihadist leaders). Without a doubt the policies of both Bush and Obama have actually impeded American acquisition of knowledge of the enemy and, therefore, thwart effective strategy development by insisting that the U.S. rely on foreign Muslims as the primary sources of our information about Islam and jihad. This inexplicably wrong-headed policy has played right into the jihadist strategy of dominating the information battlespace and confusing the U.S. government and public about the true aggressive jihadist nature of Islam. The strategically sought-after pseudoreality has been achieved.
Further, two very wrong-headed strategies followed by both presidents that have played into the jihadists long war strategy. The first was Bushs pursuing counterinsurgency and nation-building (endeavors that typically require decades) and second was Obamas degrade and ultimately destroy jihadism in Syria and Iraq strategy. By such an open-ended and nebulous policy Obama is approving war without end. Since the jihadists see their path to victory through wearing down Americans psychologically and morally through unending war, Bush and Obama could not have served up more jihad-friendly strategies.
Everything about Islam is diametrically opposed to Western philosophical and political beliefs in regard to democracy, equality before the law, gender equality, freedom of speech, and religious freedom. It makes no sense to believe that Islam with its Dar al-Harb destroy-the-West doctrine and its intolerant Sharia jurisprudence can coexist in or with free Western societies. The facts of this reality demand a sea-change in Western strategy that openly admits and publicizes the truth about Islamic jihads imperialistic objectives and implements war-fighting that does not accommodate the jihadists long war strategy. The World War II strategy of decisively destroying the enemys will and capability to make war is a must, since the Islamic jihadists are every bit as fanatical as the German Nazis and Japanese Shinto-Bushido worshippers.
Sunni Islamic Jihad - funded by the Bush family buddies, Saudi Arabia and to a lesser extent, the other Gulf States.
The savages will win unless the normal people admit that izzlam is a world-expansionist ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.
Arm up, boys and girls.
Our “Politicians” and our “ Military” aren’t going to help in this fight. As a matter of fact, they are most likely going to be on the OTHER SIDE of it.
Yes, we will have to fight our way THROUGH them to get to the enemy and defeat him. Nasty and brutish all around.
Very good article by Col. Tom Snodgrass and Coughlin’s work is OUTSTANDING.
The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of earth has made unprecedented advances inside the republic since 911.
Enemies foreign.
The Trojan horse is already inside our gates, inside our green zone, inside the halls of congress, inside the oval office. Witness the half-frikken American half Marxist, half Mohammedan.
Enemies domestic.
Secular totalitarians. Marxists/socialists. Feel the Bern? Hillaryous Rotten Criminal?
We are being subjugated by enemies foreign and enemies domestic. They operate on parallel track. Always have. Always will.
Zero representation.
A short item that gives you the flavor of
Mohammed-Charlemagne-Revisited
and then if you really want to undestand it all, there's this:
Ping
Populus Poll (2006): 12% of young Muslims in Britain (and 12% overall) believe that suicide attacks against civilians in Britain can be justified. 1 in 4 support suicide attacks against British troops.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/07/more-survey-research-from-a-british-islamist
Pew Research (2007): 26% of younger Muslims in America believe suicide bombings are justified.
35% of young Muslims in Britain believe suicide bombings are justified (24% overall).
42% of young Muslims in France believe suicide bombings are justified (35% overall).
22% of young Muslims in Germany believe suicide bombings are justified.(13% overall).
29% of young Muslims in Spain believe suicide bombings are justified.(25% overall).
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf#page=60
Pew Research (2011): 8% of Muslims in America believe suicide bombings are often or sometimes justified (81% never).
28% of Egyptian Muslims believe suicide bombings are often or sometimes justified (38% never).
http://www.people-press.org/2011/08/30/muslim-americans-no-signs-of-growth-in-alienation-or-support-for-extremism/
Pew Research (2007): Muslim-Americans who identify more strongly with their religion are three times more likely to feel that suicide bombings are justified
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf#page=60
27% of British Muslims do not support the deportation of Islamic extremists preaching violence and hate.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/07/more-survey-research-from-a-british-islamist.html
Federation of Student Islamic Societies: About 1 in 5 Muslim students in Britain (18%) would not report a fellow Muslim planning a terror attack.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/07/more-survey-research-from-a-british-islamist
The big list:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/opinion-polls.aspx
Muslims have highest claimed disability rates in the UK (24% of men, 21% of women)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340599/WikiLeaks-1-3-British-Muslim-students-killing-Islam-40-want-Sharia-law.html
Middle East Forum (2015): Muslims comprise less than 1% of the population in the United States but 9% of prison inmates.
http://www.meforum.org/blog/2015/08/islam-prison
Policy Exchange: 1 in 4 Muslims in the UK have never heard of the Holocaust;
Only 34% of British Muslims believe the Holocaust ever happened.
http://www.imaginate.uk.com/MCC01_SURVEY/Site%20Download.pdf
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/ShariaLawOrOneLawForAll.pdf
NOP Research: 62% of British Muslims do not believe in the protection of free speech;
Only 3% adopt a “consistently pro-freedom of speech line”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/opinion/main1893879.shtml&date=2011-04-06
http://www.webcitation.org/5xkMGAEvY
Pew Research (2011): 21% of Muslim-Americans say there is a fair to great amount of support for Islamic extremism in their community.
http://www.people-press.org/2011/08/30/section-6-terrorism-concerns-about-extremism-foreign-policy/
Die Presse (2013): 1 in 3 Muslims in Austria say it is not possible to be a European and a Muslim. 22% oppose democracy
http://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/survey-on-islam-in-austria-18-of-muslims-support-death-sentence-for-apostasy-21-9-oppose-democracy/
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