Posted on 06/28/2016 1:32:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The recent verbal attacks by the Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his supporters on President Barack Obama for avoiding the phrase "radical Islam" in his public pronouncements are simplistic, racially inflammatory — and flatly misinformed.
Settling upon accurate and strategically nuanced terms to describe the post-9/11 enemy is not the product of "political correctness" (contra Trump) or a failure to understand the enemy (contra a much-discussed Atlantic cover story). Nor are objections to using overly broad terms like "Islamic radicalism" limited to Democrats. The Bush administration understood the power of words, too. It concluded that distinctions that may seem small to Christian-American ears make a big difference to the mainstream Muslims we need on our side.
When I directed the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the CIA in the early 2000s, I frequently interacted with senior Bush administration policymakers about how to engage Muslim communities and, when doing so, which words and phrases to use to best describe the radical ideology preached by al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Always, the aim was to distinguish between radicals and extremists and the vast majority of mainstream Muslims, and to make sure the latter understood that we were not lumping them in with the former.
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And people bitterly clinging to their Koran?
The CIA hires whomever advances THEIR agenda. Psychopathic Muslim terrorist who wipes with his hand and thinks the world is flat and kills Jews for fun? No problem! Agree to assassinate Assad and overthrow Syria? Buddy, you’re on the team and if you have anything on the ball, you’ll work directly with US Special Forces. Regular US Air Force cash, weapons, and ammo drops.
Administration crossover makes no difference. Administrations are 4 years, 8 max. CIA and State careers are 30 years with immediate placement in the ‘private sector’ for another 10 to 20 doing the same general thing.
Nakleh isn’t stupid, he is a CIA asset.
And how successful was this guy? Ft. Hood, San Bernardino, Garland, Tx (failed), NY, LA, New Jersey, Little Rock Ark recruiter killed, Florida attempts and ISIS supporters, etc.
Stay retired, buddy.
Of course, since he professed that izzl'am is a religion of peace.
After being ordered to stand down for a couple of hours.
There just are no words.
Worked for Bush. That’s all I need to know.
Bush is an extreme idiot who could barely manage the baseball team handed him between drinks.
Daddy was CIA director and the whole family, including the tosser brother the CIA tried to hand us as the next president, are so mobbed up with the Suadis and the bin Laden family, entire books have been written about that.
Before Obama,
There was virtually no overwhelming presence of Islam in America, but ALL OF A SUDDEN.....
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You might revisit the immediate actions of GWB after 9/11 - one of them being immediate increase in Muslim “immigration.”
“Religion of peace”
“All worship the same god”
“Three Abrahamic faiths”
You’re first one to get it
Bush called Islam the ROP. He was wrong. Why can General Sisi of Egypt and French President Holland call it radical Islam and we cannot?
>>> Why does ISIS call THEMSELVES ISIS, but comrades and Muslim brothers OBrennan and OMuslim call them ISIL?
Nakhleh, who was born in Palestine and served in the CIA for 16 years before retiring in 2006, is a Muslim.
>>> Nakhleh didn’t “serve in” the CIA (as in serving the American People) he *served* the CIA (to the detriment and death of the American People and Israelis).
The problem is not that, it’s jihad, an activity directed not by individual psychosis, but as a collective effort under state level direction.
It’s a war. The people prosecuting it know it’s a war. The victims know it’s a war. The people who sympathize with the murderers know it’s a war. We gain nothing but misery by shielding our eyes from the fact that it’s a war.
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The Plague of Islam
If the civilized world is to survive, Islam must be understood for what it really is: It’s not a religion, form of government, or anything recognizable to the civilized mind. Islam is a disease, an incurable disease of the mind that is highly contagious among the feeble minded and is now spreading among the world’s feeble minded at an epidemic rate. As with any disease, one can’t reason with this disease, negotiate with it, or treat in a manner other than how one would treat any other incurable disease.
As past efforts to contain this disease have failed, carriers of this Plague of Islam must be eradicated wherever they’re found, for if they’re not, this disease will eventually end not just Western Civilization, but it will undo over 5,000 years of human civilization.
“Bush started the MYTH of the “peaceful” religion.”
Our government has tried being nice to the Muslims (the leaders) and it hasn’t worked. Now we either get run over by them or we use force against them.
by Emile Nakhleh
No one had heard of you before 911, and no one has heard from you since.
The words you recommended have not been used since mid Nov., 2001. Guess why?
And Dubya himself corrected his error around Dec 2001 and never used those absurd description of the koranimals since.
Only about 20% of muslims are radical.
No problem. No biggie.
What's a mere 200,000,000 crazed killer two-legged animals worldwide?
GWB correcting his words in December 2001, means nothing, when one takes into account his covering for his Saudi pals and using the FBI post-911 to escort all of those Saudi terror suspects out of the United States.
He wasn’t part of the solution, he and his neo-con globalist buddies were (and remain) the PROBLEM.
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