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 wouldve 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 doesnt let in Muslims, Muslims will attack America.
Maybe we should change this around: Muslims be nice to Westerners, or we will blow you up.
New idea...Islam must be kind to us, or we will blow their sorry goat boinking asses up.
Howz that?
This is why we need to back up & support this guy, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. He is trying to establish an Islamic Reformation, much like the Christian one that occurred oh so long ago.
M. ZUHDI JASSER, M.D.
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M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and is the author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriots Fight to Save His Faith (Simon & Schuster, June 2012). On March 20, 2012, Dr. Jasser was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) where he currently serves as a Commissioner.
A devout Muslim, Dr. Jasser founded AIFD in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States as an effort to provide an American Muslim voice advocating for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. Dr. Jasser is a first generation American Muslim whose parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960s for American freedom. He is leading the fight to shake the hold that the Muslim Brotherhood and their network of American Islamist organizations and mosques seek to exert on organized Islam in America.
Dr. Jasser earned his medical degree on a U.S. Navy scholarship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1992. He served 11 years as a medical officer in the U. S. Navy. His tours of duty included Medical Department Head aboard the U.S.S. El Paso which deployed to Somalia during Operation Restore Hope; Chief Resident at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and Staff Internist for the Office of theAttending Physician to the U. S. Congress. He is a recipient of theMeritorious Service Medal. Dr. Jasser is a respected physician currently in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology. He is a Past-President of the Arizona Medical Association.
AIFD seeks to counter political Islam the ideology that fuels radical Islamists. AIFDs current passions include the Muslim Liberty Project(MLP) and involvement in the American Islamic Leadership Coalition (AILC). The Muslim Liberty Project seeks to instill the ideas of liberty into young Muslim adults in order to inoculate them against the viral threat of political Islam. The project brought together its first class of Muslim Youth in March 2011 with tremendous success. AILC is a broad based coalition of diverse Muslim organizations that provide a stark alternative to the domestic and global network of Islamist organizations.
Dr. Jasser is also actively involved in the Syrian-American community as the co-founder of Save Syria Now! which was formed by Americans of Syrian descent to put pressure on the United States to call for immediate action to end the regime of Bashar Assad of Syria and to help bring true liberty to the people of Syria. Dr. Jasser briefed members of the U.S. House of Representatives on the situation in Syria in July 2011 and again on June 25, 2013.
Dr. Jasser regularly briefs members of the House and Senate on the threat of Political Islam. Dr. Jasser testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security on March 10, 2011 on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Communitys Response and again on June 20, 2012 on The American Muslim Response to Hearings on Radicalization within their Community. On June 24, 2011 he testified before the Constitution Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives on the importance ofHR 963 The See Something, Say Something Act of 2011. Dr. Jasser testified before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations on Anti-Semitism: A Growing Threat to All Faiths on February 27, 2013 and again on December 10, 2013 on Human Rights Abuses in Egypt.
Dr. Jasser is an internationally recognized expert in the contest of ideas against politicalIslam and American Islamist organizations. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New York Post, The Dallas Morning News , CNN, CBS, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and BBC in addition to nationally syndicated radio programs. He has spoken at hundreds of national and international events including universities, places of worship, and government venues.
Dr. Jasser was presented with the 2007 Directors Community Leadership Award by the Phoenix office of the FBI and was recognized as a Defender of the Home Front at the annual Keeper of the Flame Dinner of the Center for Security Policy in 2008. Dr. Jasser is a contributing writer to a number of books and is featured in four documentaries America at Risk, Islam v Islamists, A Question of Honor and The Third Jihad.
“Petraeus is a fool. I knew that from the time he issued a call for the pastor in FL to refrain from burning the Koran claiming it would cost American lives.”
Petraeus is no fool. He was simply managing his career. To advance in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations it was necessary to tow the party line which is Islam is the religion of peace. Muslim immigration accelerated under Bush, the president who held the hand of the Saudi prince after 9/11, and has continued to advance under Barack Obama who was educated as a Muslim in Indonesia.
Petraeus is a political animal playing the game. His public pronouncements now are all about currying favor with the media, the intellectual elites, and the liberal politicians who can arrange lucrative book deals, board memberships, speaking engagements, and consulting contracts. In his world, having been forced to resign in humiliation, he can only eat the crumbs off the table by prostituting himself.
This man is an opportunist, not a patriot.
I have a better idea: kill them.
Actually, that was not for off the mark...he’ll sell out anyone or anything.
At some point you have to draw the line and be prepared to enforce it. Islam must understand that we will not capitulate to them, nor will we tolerate their tantrums to coerce us into dhimmitude. We can either live quietly, and they can STFU, or they can die. The choice is not ours...it’s theirs.
Islam is nothing more than a scam created by a degenerate to give him license to indulge his perversions.
Is anyone working for the CIA that has at least half a functional brain ?
He was nice to Obama the muslim, how did that work out for him
Well he can kiss that Pardon Trump might have given him goodbye.
Only by democrats. Now he is going for the full Monty.
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet!
It must have been something they said.
Brilliant.
Petraeus is a traitor.
Thank you for that information about Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. He’s a true American hero, not to mention awesomely courageous. He deserves tremendous respect and study. If Islam is to survive, it will be along the lines of his teachings. Otherwise, Muslims will be wiped off the face of the Earth - by their own insane ultimatum. The only thing keeping them alive even now is that most people just cannot believe they mean what they say. But that will pass, and when it does, there won’t be a single stone they can hide under.
“David Petraeus said increasing anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States threatens to drive more moderate Muslims to terrorism”
Be nice to bank robbers or they may rob more banks.
Be nice to rapists are they may commit more rapes.
Be nice to murders or them may commit more murders.
Be nice to wife-beaters or they may beat more wives.
Makes sense to me.
If a "moderate" can be driven to terrorism by "anti-Muslim rhetoric", then he wasn't a moderate in the first place.
Odd, isn't it, that nobody seems concerned about stopping "anti-Christian" rhetoric, lest it provoke us into terrorism?
I try to post other voices or different paths to the issues facing us as a Nation. But I am finding my voice drowned out, more & more by those of the 2 main CORRUPT political parties & their fanatical followers
Thanks for the Hindu Kush article. Excellent.
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