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Saturday, March 18, 2017

MORE EVIDENCE THAT MCMASTER SHARES OBAMA'S VIEWS ON ISLAM & TERROR

 
MORE EVIDENCE THAT MCMASTER SHARES 
OBAMA'S VIEWS ON ISLAM & TERROR
BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
Donald Trump’s new national security advisor, Lt. General H.R. McMaster, has made troubling remarks — such as “the Islamic State is not Islamic” — that one expects from the D.C. establishment. However, a hearty endorsement that he gave to a 2010 book suggests that the totality of McMaster’s views on security issues are worse than simply parroting politically correct memes on Islam.
The book in question is Militant Islamist IdeologyUnderstanding the Global Threat. Written by CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, it was published by the Naval Institute Press in 2010. I read and reviewed it back in 2012 and found its claims — many of which the Obama administration followed to disastrous results — to be incorrect and problematic.
For starters, Aboul-Enein asserts that only “militant Islamists” — ISIS types who behead, crucify, massacre, and burn people alive — are the enemy. “Non-militant Islamists,” however, are not:
It is the Militant Islamists who are our adversary. They represent an immediate threat to the national security of the United States. They must not be confused with Islamists [p.2].
This theme, which the author often expresses in convoluted language — at one point urging readers to appreciate “the divisions between Militant Islamists and between Militant Islamists and Islamists” (p.176) — permeates the book. In reality, all Islamists share the same ultimate goal of global Islamic hegemony. They differ only in methodology — not in their view of us as the enemy to be crushed.
“Non-militant Islamists,” chief among them the Muslim Brotherhood, see incremental infiltration and subtle subversion of infidel Western states as more effective than outright terrorism, as one notorious Brotherhood memo clearly states.[1]
We’ve already seen the outcome of cooperating with “Non-militant Islamists” during the Arab Spring. The Obama administration cast aside decades of standard U.S. policy and support for secular Arab autocrats and made cozy with the Muslim Brotherhood. What followed is well-known: the Arab Spring quickly turned into the “Islamic Winter.” This culminated with the rise of the Islamic State, in large part due to Obama’s policies, both active (aiding Islamic terrorists by portraying them as “freedom fighters” in Libya and Syria) and inactive (pulling all U.S. forces out of Iraq despite the warnings and disposing of a 30-year ally of the U.S., the secularist Mubarak, for the Brotherhood in Egypt).
Aboul-Enein further recommends American forces adopt a Sharia-compliant respect for Islam and Muslims.  For example, he suggests that if an American soldier ever desecrates a Koran, U.S. leadership must not merely relieve him of duty, but offer “unconditional apologies” to Muslims, and emulate the words of Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, which Aboul-Enein quotes as exemplary: “I come before you [Muslims] seeking your forgiveness, in the most humble manner I look in your eyes today, and say please forgive me and my soldiers,” followed by kissing a new Koran and “ceremoniously” presenting it to Muslims.
Not only is such a double-standard un-American — would a serviceman be punished for the “desecration” of any other religious book? — but the very idea that supremacist Muslims can be won over through servile and fawning appeasement is antithetical to reality, if not human nature. Abject behavior breeds contempt and encourages more Muslim aggression and demands.
Here are a few more examples of Aboul-Enein’s false claims, distortions, and general oddities, though one could go on and on:
  • He writes (p.142) that “when Muslims are a persecuted minority Jihad becomes a fard kifaya (an optional obligation), in which the imam authorizes annual expeditions into Dar el Harb (the Abode of War), lands considered not under Muslim dominance.” This is wrong on several levels.  A fard kifaya is not an “optional obligation” — an oxymoron if ever there was one — but rather a “communal obligation.” Moreover, Aboul-Enein is clearly describing Offensive Jihad, which is designed to subjugate non-Muslims and is obligatory to wage whenever Muslims are capable, not “when Muslims are a persecuted minority,” which in Islamic jurisprudence is a Defensive Jihad and fard ‘ain (i.e., individual obligation).
  • He says (p.75) that the Arabic word for “terrorist” (irhabi) is nowhere to be found in the Koran or Hadith– without bothering to mention that the verb form of that word (tirhibun), “terrorize,” abounds in Islamic scriptures (e.g., Allah himself calls on Muslims to “terrorize”  Islam’s opponents in Koran 8:60).
  • He asserts (p.65) that “militant Islamists dismiss ijmaa [consensus] and qiyas [analogical reasoning]” two tools of Islamic jurisprudence.  This is simply false. Groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS regularly invoke ijmaa (for instance, the consensus that jihad becomes a personal duty — fard ‘ain — when infidels invade the Islamic world) and justify suicide attacks precisely through qiyas (see The Al Qaeda Reader, p.138).
  • After rightfully admonishing readers not to rely on skewed or biased accounts of Islam and Muhammad’s biography, he repeatedly recommends (e.g., pgs. 20, 213, 216) the writings of Muslim apologist extraordinaire Karen Armstrong, whose whitewashing of all things Islamic is notorious.
Such are the claims, distortions, and recommendations of a book that McMaster wholeheartedly endorsed in 2010 as “excellent” and “deserv[ing] a wide readership,” a book that claims “[t]errorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit under-educated and disenfranchised people to their cause” — yet another tired apologia that has been repeatedly debunked. [2]
Over a year ago I closed an article for Hoover Institution’s Strategika with the following sentence:
Time will tell whether the next [American presidential] administration will remain willfully ignorant of the nature of its jihadi enemy — which is fatal in war according to Sun Tzu’s ancient dictum, “know your enemy” — or whether reality will trump political correctness.
The pun remains truer than ever: If the recommendations of Militant Islamist Ideology are truly reflective of the views of Trump’s new national security advisor on U.S. security and Islam — especially this notion of cooperating with “Nonmilitant Islamists” — then it seems we are going right back to being “willfully ignorant” of reality.
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[1] Excerpt follows: Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:
“The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [meaning Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
“Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack.”
[2] Here is McMaster’s entire endorsement, as it appears on the back of the book’s jacket cover:
“Terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit under-educated and disenfranchised people to their cause. Understanding terrorist ideology is the first and may also be the most important step in ensuring national and international security against the threat that these organizations pose.
Youssef Aboul-Enein’s book is an excellent starting point in that connection. Militant Islamist Ideology deserves a wide readership among all those concerned with the problem of transnational terrorism, their ideology, and our efforts to combat those organizations that pose a serious threat to current and future generations of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.”
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http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2017/02/updated-another-trump-lousy-pick-nsas.html 

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2017/02/general-mcmaster-and-that-jihadist.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2017/02/another-trump-lousy-pick-nsas-mcmaster.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2017/03/mcmaster-gorka-unfit-for-duty.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2017/02/president-trump-names-hr-mcmaster-as.html
 

GEERT WILDERS WAS RIGHT: "TURKS ARE NOT EUROPEANS"~ERDOGAN SAYS "YOU ARE THE FUTURE OF EUROPE", URGES TURKS IN EU TO HAVE AT LEAST FIVE CHILDREN

GEERT WILDERS WAS RIGHT: 
"TURKS ARE NOT EUROPEANS", JUST SAVAGES~
ERDOGAN SAYS "YOU ARE THE FUTURE OF EUROPE", URGES TURKS IN EU TO HAVE AT LEAST 
FIVE CHILDREN 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, at the UN in 1974.
What response is there to the demographic jihad? Erdogan is exhorting Muslims in Europe to do what they’re already doing. Unless there is some massive change, in another generation or two, it will be all over in Europe, and Sharia will descend, courtesy the short-sightedness and fear of being accused of “Islamophobia” of European officials.

“‘You are the future of Europe’: Erdogan urges Turks in EU to have at least 5 kids,” RT, March 17, 2017:
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has urged all Turks living in Europe to have at least five children, saying they are the future of the continent and that it would be the best response to the “injustices” imposed on expatriates there.
“Go live in better neighborhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses. Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you,” Erdogan said in the city of Eskisehir on Friday, according to AP.
The comments were made while the Turkish president was campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote in an upcoming constitutional referendum that would grant him sweeping new powers.
It is the latest in an ongoing string of comments aimed at Europe after Turkish ministers were prevented from holding campaign rallies there.
The Netherlands has bore the brunt of the criticisms, after it prevented the ministers from addressing a crowd in Rotterdam on Sunday, and later used water cannons to disperse Turkish demonstrators in the city.
Since then, Erdogan has hurled a string of insults at the European country, including accusing it of state terrorism, acting like “Nazi remnants,” and having a “rotten” character….
 

TRUMP TOWER BLUEPRINTS STOLEN FROM SECRET SERVICE

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 TRUMP TOWER BLUEPRINTS STOLEN FROM 
SECRET SERVICE 
 Trump family lives in tower
BY KIT DANIELS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
A laptop containing blueprints for the Trump Tower and other security information was stolen from the Secret Service, multiple outlets reported.
The laptop, which also contained tower evacuation procedures as well as data from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, was taken from a Secret Service agent’s vehicle parked at her home in Brooklyn on Thursday morning.
Security footage showed an individual being dropped off by a car near the agent’s home, then taking off on foot after stealing the laptop.
“The agent also told investigators that while nothing about the White House or foreign leaders is stored on the laptop, the information on there could compromise national security,” reported the New York Daily News. “The thief also took ‘sensitive’ documents and the agent’s access keycard, though the level of the agent’s access wasn’t immediately clear.”
A police officer involved said the investigation was a “very big deal” to the Secret Service.
“While the president hasn’t been back to Trump Tower since his inauguration, Melania and Barron are still living there until he finishes the school year,” reported TMZ.
Earlier in the week, the NYPD admitted it was setting up a new security detail with cherry picked officers after spending months struggling to guard the tower adequately.

GOOGLE TO TARGET CRITICISM OF ISLAM IN NEW CENSORSHIP PURGE

 Google to Target Criticism of Islam in New Censorship Purge
GOOGLE TO TARGET CRITICISM OF ISLAM 
IN NEW CENSORSHIP PURGE
 Website that describes Islam as "intolerant" listed as example of "upsetting/offensive" content
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
One of the examples cited by Google for what it now considers “upsetting-offensive” content that will be subject to flagging, de-listing and possible censorship is a website that describes the religion of Islam as “intolerant”.
Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Google will begin directing teams of employees to flag content that is deemed “upsetting” or “offensive” and bury such websites in order to “improve the quality of its search results”.
“The new “upsetting-offensive” flag instructs quality raters to “flag to all web results that contain upsetting or offensive content from the perspective of users in your locale, even if the result satisfies the user intent,” according to the report.
SearchEngineLand.com, which originally broke the story, features an example of what would be buried if a user searched for the term “Islam” – an article entitled Proof that Islam is Evil, Violent, and Intolerant- Straight From the Koran by Jan Morgan, a public speaker and award-winning journalist who regularly appears on Fox News and has appeared on CNN.
The website in question contains numerous violent passages from the Quran and the Hadith that explicitly prove Islam is not a “religion of peace”.
Under Google’s new guidelines, such information would be flagged as “upsetting-offensive” and buried in Google search results because the page exists to “promote intolerance or hate”.
In reality, the page exists to expose the fact that the religion of Islam is intolerant and hateful towards non-Muslims, members of the LGBT community and others – a manifestly provable fact.
Put simply; Google is planning on filtering out politically incorrect information even if it is factually correct.
The fact is that Islam is intolerant – even in the west where a majority of Muslims living in the UK think homosexuality should be illegal – is incontrovertible.
In the Islamic world, female rape victims are killed or thrown in prison, girls and women are victims of honor killings, female genital mutilation and acid attacks, alleged adulterers are stoned to death and gay people are executed.
In what world is that not evidence of an intolerant belief system?
In targeting such information for censorship, Google is effectively becoming Sharia-compliant and making itself an apologist for what is clearly, by all objective standards, the most violent and intolerant belief system on the planet.
Dying MSM Calls For End Of Free Press