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State Department endorses handbook calling jihad “noble”

Oct 8, 2014 2:12 pm By Robert Spencer

boko-haram“Do not refer to terrorists as ‘jihadis,’” the manual states. “This only emboldens them and gives them a legitimate status in the eyes of the vulnerable. Terrorism is not jihad. Jihad is a noble concept in Islam.” Here again we see the utterly false assumption that Muslims look to non-Muslims for their legitimacy. There is no truth to that whatsoever, and handbooks like this one only foster ignorance and complacency about the threat we face.

“State Department Endorses Handbook Calling Jihad ‘Noble,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, October 8, 2014:

The U.S. State Department endorsed on Wednesday a controversial anti-terror handbook published by Canada’s Muslim community that refers to jihad as “noble” and urges law enforcement to avoid using terms such as “Islamic extremism.”

The handbook, published earlier this month by two Canadian Muslim community organizations, was so controversial that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) flatly rejected the manual and ordered its officers not to use it.

Yet the State Department’s official anti-terrorism Twitter feed, called Think Again Turn Away, appeared to endorse the controversial handbook on Twitter and linked to a positive article about it.

The handbook, titled United Against Terrorism, has become a contentious issue for the RCMP since its release. Several sections of the guide instruct Muslim community members not to cooperate with police while others claim jihad “is a noble concept.”

The RCMP ultimately decided to reject the book, citing its “adversarial tone.”

“After a final review of the handbook, the RCMP could not support the adversarial tone set by elements of the booklet and therefore directed RCMP Manitoba not to proceed with this initiative,” the police force said in a statement posted on its website.

The handbook itself recommends that “intelligence and law enforcement officials” should “avoid terms such as ‘Islamist terrorism’, ‘Islamicism’, and ‘Islamic extremism’ in favor of more accurate terms such as ‘al Qaeda inspired extremist,’” according to one section of the handbook, which still bears RCMP’s official logo.

Law enforcement officials also are told to “discontinue any inappropriate information gathering techniques including (but not limited to) showing up at workplaces, intimidating newcomers, questioning individuals religiosity, and discouraging legal representation,” according to the handbook.

The term “jihad” also is not appropriate to use, according to the handbook, a copy of which was first published by Canada’s CBC News.

“Do not refer to terrorists as ‘jihadis,’” the manual states. “This only emboldens them and gives them a legitimate status in the eyes of the vulnerable. Terrorism is not jihad. Jihad is a noble concept in Islam.”

Other sections tell the Muslim community that they are under no obligation to speak to the police about individuals who may be suspected of having extremist ties.

“The  tweet you are referring to features a repost of information from a Globe and Mail report on a new booklet produced by the RCMP and two Islamic groups,” said State Department spokeswoman Carolyn Glassman. “CSCC was simply sharing information about a new product related to counterterrorism. Our reposting does not connote an endorsement.”

The State Department’s endorsement of the guidebook struck some Twitter users as curious. This is not the first time that the State Department has run into trouble as a result of it tweets.

The department’s Counterterrorism Bureau (CT Bureau) was forced to issue multiple apologies earlier this year after it endorsed on Twitter a radical Muslim cleric who backed a fatwa calling for the murder of U.S. troops….

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  1. Beagle says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:18 pm

    Time to arrest everyone at the State Department for terrorist recruiting and material support for terror. Book ’em, Dan-O.

    /headdesk

    Seriously, who needs enemies when we have the State Department?

    • Jack Holan says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      Time to run a deep background check on everyone at State. They should periodically run one anyways but I mean a full one on all grades including Executive appts and spouses as well as all contractors.

    • Jerry says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 5:20 pm

      More appropriately, time to impeach and then arrest the ignoble HBO and charge him with treason.

    • Nicky says

      Oct 8, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      When someone aids and abets a murderer to commit a murder they can be charged in court even though they didn’t actually commit the murder. Question – can we charge the president and the state department for aiding and abetting the mass murder committed by these jihadis ? because it looks like they are criminally negligent ! !

    • Shane says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 4:20 pm

      The State dept. is infested with liberal cockroaches who are more concerned with being politically correct than protecting America. Jihad means holy war and only a traitorous liberal twit would deny that fact.

  2. Ha Meshuga says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    I urge anyone who is interested in Israel and the Jewish people, to explore professor Francisco Gil-White’s web site, if you dont already know him:

    http://www.hirhome.com/israel/save.htm

  3. mariam rove says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    you have to be kidding. m

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them) Koran 8.60

    But it has NOTHING to do with Islam.

    Let’s stop pretending!

  5. manuel-rafael says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    WITH A SECRETARY OF STATE WHO THREATENS ISRAEL WITH “ANOTHER INTIFADA” THAT INTIFADA BEGAN WITHIN THE TWO WEEK PERIOD “INTIFADA KERRY’S INTIFADA” WAS GIVEN AS THE TIME FRAME ON JULY 17TH. THE ROCKETS FLEW AND STILL DO, OBAMA REFUSED TO SUPPLY THE ACCESS TO THE ARSENAL OF ROCKETS FOR THE IRON DOME AND JET FIGHTERS UNTIL THE ISIS/IL MODERATE REBELS HAD GOTTEN UNDERWAY, THE NEED TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM QATAR’S FASCIST IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL ASPIRATION GAVE WAY TO THE ARAB SPRING WITH AIR SUPPORT FOR THE JIHADI GENOCIDE OF PESHMERGA KURDS SYRIAN AND YAZIDIS WHO HAVE BEEN THE ONLY RELEVANT AND SUCCESSFUL OPPOSITION TO THE MODERATE REBELS OF ISIS, ISIL AND IS.

  6. R Cole says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Part of these efforts speak to the competition – between the US and Europe in just how well assimilated their Muslims are. While Europe was going through its troubles the argument was – that US Muslims were far more integrated than those in Europe – naturally. Obama said as much on his visit to Europe after – his Cairo address to the Islamic world.

    All these little tweaks in wording – almost like a rabbits foot over a four leaf clover – are grasped on to – but instead of only getting Al Qaeda, we now have Boko Haram and ISIS – under the command of a full blown Caliphate.

    It is purposefully misleading to suggest that the rise of these and other Islamist terror groups has anything to do with so-called Islamophobia or western thought on Islam.

    Renaming the Rose

    It is not what we call these things Islamic that is the problem. It is a rose by any other name – but they have to change the way they think about jihad. They have to change the way they view Islam in a world that doesn’t practise it – and further doesn’t wish to practise it.

    In the face of events – all changes are being directed at us – and we have to wonder why that is.

  7. tpellow says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    For State Department:-

    “Islam 101”

    by Gregory M. Davis.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101

  8. eib says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 7:52 pm

    The Istanbul process at work.

  9. London Jim says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    The noble savage ?

  10. charleston says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    well, we do have a muslim president

    although he lies about that

  11. Ayatrollah says

    Oct 8, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    The main sharia law book for Sunni Islam, called “reliance of the traveller” says jihad is fighting to bring the religion forth. And is never the internal spiritual stuff.

    The Muslims who say it is are lying if they are knowledgable Muslims.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:14 am

    From the article –

    “The handbook, published earlier this month by two Canadian Muslim community organizations, was so controversial that **the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) flatly rejected the manual and ordered its officers not to use it.** {my emphasis – dda}…

    “The handbook, titled United Against Terrorism, has become a contentious issue for the RCMP since its release.

    “Several sections of the guide instruct Muslim community members not to cooperate with police while others claim jihad “is a noble concept.”

    “**The RCMP ultimately decided to reject the book, citing its “adversarial tone.”

    “After a final review of the handbook, the RCMP could not support the adversarial tone set by elements of the booklet and therefore directed RCMP Manitoba not to proceed with this initiative,” the police force said in a statement posted on its website.** {my emphasis – dda}.

    Memo to all Canadian jihadwatchers here present at this time, October 2014: I do hope you’ve written to the RCMP or to relevant portions thereof, **commending them** for rejecting that sly, sinister little “handbook”.

    No sensible police force on earth would accept for a minute a handbook on “how to pussyfoot around the delicate sensibilities of mafiosi or of triad members” – so why should it be demanded that they pussyfoot around the exquisite sensibilities of members of the Allah Gang, the Mohammedan Mob? The British in India didn’t give two hoots about the “sensitivities” or fine points of theology of the Thuggee cult: they just kept hammering at them until the Thuggee cult was no more.

  13. Kasey says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:45 am

    Another result of Obama’s general attitude towards Islam and its activities around the World….all with a negative result for the USA and us.

  14. Ancient says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 7:27 am

    If “Islamophobia” is a “pathological fear of Islam”, then it best explains the condition of those who rush in a panic to defend Islam after each new atrocity committed in its name.

  15. Mo says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Can we get them all on treason YET?

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