Posted on 05/14/2016 7:47:37 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
In an op-ed for The Washington Post published Friday, former CIA Director David Petraeus said increasing anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States threatens to drive more “moderate” Muslims to terrorism.
For Petraeus, the rapid increase of ugly rhetoric against Muslims and Islam threatens to engulf even “moderate” Muslims. This is exactly what terror groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State want, as it supports their vision of the world as one divided between the forces of Islam and the forces of the decadent, satanic west. These groups then seize on a sort of “clash of civilizations” rhetoric to drive recruitment and push moderate Muslims into their ranks.
Muslims in the West are apparently so at risk of joining up with al-Qaida, that Petraeus thinks we need to police our own speech, as not to offend them and face the potential consequence of a growing, violent fifth column taking shape in the West.
“Rather than making our country safer, they will compound the already grave terrorist danger to our citizens,” Petraeus wrote. “As ideas, they are toxic and, indeed, non-biodegradable — a kind of poison that, once released into our body politic, is not easily expunged.”
"Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State,” Petraeus added. “The terrorists’ explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations — telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.”
Cooperation from moderate Muslims is a key element relied upon by the American intelligence apparatus to crush domestic terror threats. To alienate those Muslims would jeopardize the ability of law enforcement to keep the nation safe, as agents would lose important assets embedded in Muslim communities.
On the international front, Petraeus noted the successful utilization of Iraqis to fight al-Qaida during the initial stages of the Iraqi invasion. Presumably, this would not have been possible with anti-Muslim rhetoric. Without those allies, more U.S. troops would’ve been needed, resulting in more casualties.
“I fear that those who demonize and denigrate Islam make it more likely that it will be our own men and women who ultimately have to shoulder more of this fight — at greater cost in dollars and lives,” Petraeus said.
Petraeus’ arguments follow in the footsteps of newly elected Muslim London Mayor Sadiq Khan that if Trump doesn’t let in Muslims, Muslims will attack America.
Appeasement: Never worked, never will.
Weakness invites attack.
Strength deters attack.
People who don’t understand these basic facts of human nature are called... Liberals.
Someone tell this @$$face to go away.
It already has. They are just waiting for the right time to strike.
Maybe the democrats were right when they labeled him ‘General Betrayus’. Because he certainly seems ready to run up the white flag.
No free speech for you. Now shut up and submit.
Another scratch off the VP list.
400 hundred million Hindus?
Evangelist: Florida pastor 'agreed in principle' not to burn Qurans
Earlier this week, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.
In an interview airing later Wednesday on “NBC Nightly News,” Gen. David Petraeus warned that video of the demonstration would be a propaganda gift for anti-U.S. “extremists.”
“We’re concerned that the images from the burning of a Quran would be used in the same way that extremists used images from Abu Ghraib — that they would in a sense be indelible,” Petraeus told NBC’s Brian Williams. “They would be used by those who wish us ill, to incite violence and to enflame public opinion against us and against our mission here in Afghanistan, as well as our missions undoubtedly around the world.”
When someone wants to kill you more than he wants to be alive himself, ....”
IMO your statement says it all. Muslims are not afraid to go to the wall to obtain their objective. Neither are the LGBT, the greenies, the BLM, name any liberal group. They follow their leaders. Conservatives exhibit some of the same traits. We keep electing the same people, believe the same lies and see the same results.
Making nice to Muslims is one of the less productive enterprises on this planet. EVERY Muslim possesses the potential of “sudden jihad syndrome”, a ticking human time bomb.
Muslims are indoctrinated from birth that theirs is the One and Only True Right Way, and that all other people are secretly Muslim, they just do not yet know it. When encountering a non-Muslim for the first time, that person is asked a question - will you turn Muslim like us? Apparently, if the answer is “yes”, then the whole ideology of what it is to be a Muslim applies, including the adoption of something called Shari’ah Law, a law code which is completely antithetical to just about every other law code in the civilized world. There is great emphasis on “honor”, keeping the purity of the religious practices, and frequent or extensive infractions of these sometimes very arcane rules is cause for stern rebuke or worse from the authorities known as ayatollahs, caliphs, mufti, or imams, a sort of anointed class within the Muslim community, whose function is to interpret and apply the strictures as set forth in an otherwise obscure set of rules in a tome known as the Koran. The Koran is held in almost superstitious awe by all Muslims, and together with the various interpretations of the Koran, called the Hadith, constitute the body of Shari’ah law.
For those who do not declare and subscribe to the whole Muslim ideology, there are exceptions made for adherence to a different deity, so long as they are willing to subjugate the authority of their deity to the greater power of Allah, a supernatural being of whom the antecedents are rather obscure, but may have been rendered as possibly Ba’al, or possibly as part of a dual deity known as Mazda Ahura/Ahriman, a good/evil representation. There are claims that the deity is supposed to be the same as the deity revered by the Jewish people, variously known as Jehovah, or JWHW, or simply the great I AM. However, great inconsistencies in this comparison appear all over the Koran, where the deity is supposed to suggest that all Jews and Christians be killed, or driven out of the land. Upon subordinating the deity in which a non-Muslim claims allegiance, the non-Muslim may then live as a vassal to the hierarchy of Islamic authorities, called upon to pay an annual tax to the authorities, known as jizya. Failure to pay, or to pay sufficient respect to the deity Allah, is grounds for severe punishment or even execution.
A third “choice” is set aside for those who would neither convert to Islam, nor allow their deity to be subordinated to Allah, and that is execution, often right on the spot, or the person is hunted down and slaughtered.
Some selection of “choice”.
The headline of this article sums up the current regime’s failure.
He utterly fails to understand the motivation of the right wingers being loudly anti Muslim. Many of us are seeking to drive there moderates into the jihadi ranks. I would like to see Islam completely expunged from America. The more formally supposed moderates I can help expose now, the better. This is exactly what Pamela’s “draw Mohammed” event was for.
The fact is the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with the basic points of our society, and we must continue exposing this, while we are still in the majority.
There is a reason generals work for politicians in our system. Patraeus is doing a good job of showing us that reason.
He utterly fails to understand the motivation of the right wingers being loudly anti Muslim. Many of us are seeking to drive there moderates into the jihadi ranks. I would like to see Islam completely expunged from America. The more formally supposed moderates I can help expose now, the better. This is exactly what Pamela’s “draw Mohammed” event was for.
The fact is the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with the basic points of our society, and we must continue exposing this, while we are still in the majority.
There is a reason generals work for politicians in our system. Patraeus is doing a good job of showing us that reason.
The General wants us to cower....you can’t make this stuff up.
Thanks Petreaus. Now I feel just fine completely writing you off.
A radical Islamist wants to behead you for being an infidel.
A moderate Islamist wants the radical Islamist to behead you for being an infidel.
What a faggot general...should have jailed his ass.....another turncoat in the ranks.....Fk islam and any one associated in it’s existing.
If it’s THAT easy to drive people to war against you then you might as well drive them as hard as you can and get it over with.
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