This special edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Stephen Coughlin, the co-founder of UnconstrainedAnalytics.org.
He came on the show to discuss his new paper: “Exploiting Ignorance in the Post Subversion Phase: Assessing “What ISIS Really Wants” in Light of the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Narrative.”
He focuses on the question “Is Al-Qaeda Really the Moderate Alternative to ISIS?”, unveiling our self-destruction via our government’s ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ narrative.
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epistemology says
Al-Qaeda and IS are simply rivals and right now IS seems to be winning the competition. There is no difference in ideology only in strategy and although both of them are Sunni IS kills Shiites whereas Al-Qaeda doesn’t. Big deal
Jack Diamond says
yes, al Qaeda was shocked, so very shocked by the brutality of ISIS that it fainted and had to be revived with smelling salts. Just as the sensitive Muslim Brotherhood was similarly afflicted by the extremism of al Qaeda. The apparent differences turn out to be only about tactics. The Brotherhood opposition to 9/11 was that it was too soon to attack America, not that America shouldn’t be attacked. Opposition to ISIS has more to do with competition over the caliphate.
The 2007 article referred to was “The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood” published in Foreign Affairs, a marvel of wishful thinking that somehow became U.S. foreign policy. The desperate grasping at straws for “moderates and reformers” even in jihadi movements, was typified by holding up Imam Kamal Helbawy as the example of a great reformer–the authors had heard him praising a Jew(!) what more evidence do you need?– and who “was forced off a flight en route to a conference at New York University. This treatment of a figure known for his brave stand against radical Islam and for his public advocacy of dialogue with the United States constitutes yet another bewildering act by the Department of Homeland Security, which provided no explanation. This London-based admirer of Shakespeare and the Brontës appears to be exactly the sort of interlocutor who could help bridge civilizations.” This admirer of Shakespeare and the Brontes, the English translator for Qaradawi, was also a founder of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and ran the division in Britain. WAMY was part of the shell-game of al Qaeda and 9/11 finance. Helbawy was secretly recorded by Steve Emerson in 1992 at a gathering in Oklahoma City co-sponsored by the Hamas-front, the Islamic Association for Palestine, championing Hamas “(the war against Israel) is an absolute clash of civilizations, between truth and falsehood. Between two conducts—-one satanic, headed by Jews and their co–conspirators—-and the other is religious, carried by Hamas, and the Islamic movement in particular and the Islamic people….’ Muslims should never befriend ‘Jews and Christians,’ who are only ‘allies to each other’. Of course, this wasn’t his usual doublespeak because it wasn’t intended for an infidel audience. Likewise visiting Iran a few years ago, sitting with the Ayatollah, he is captured on video speaking against “the global arrogance led by the U.S.” and praising the “great Islamic uprising” and the “model of resistance” that is Islamic Iran. Not only are Shakespeare and Bronte nowhere in evidence, neither is any brave stand against “radical Islam.” The search for unicorns continues.
Kepha says
Here’s some history for you:
1939: Oh, we’re so shocked that Stalin made a pact with the Fascists of Germany! Maybe Trotsky wasn’t such a bad guy…
1946: What? Good old Uncle Joe is trying to force us out of Berlin?
1947: Communism is the wave of the future. We need to treat it nicely.
1950: What: North Korea attacks South Korea?
1950’s: Khruschev can’t be all bad. He’s trying to de-Stalinize.
1960’s: Russia is good, friengly, peace-loving, coexistence wannabe Communism; China is aggressive, Yellow Peril, warlike Communism.
1968: Ho Chi Minh a Communist? Why, he’s always been a democratic nationalist.
1970’s: Russia is mean, aggressive Communism; China stands for good, peace-loving Communism.
1975: What? How can liberation movements in Southeast Asia kill off so many of their own people and make so many refugees?
1979: Jimmeh Cahduh: “I’ve learned more about them in three months than in three years of office” (re Soviet invasion of Afghanistan).
1979: Marg Bar Shah! Marg Bar Amrika! Hey, wait a minute! Khomeini wasn’t supposed to do an end run around our odds-on favorites in the Tudeh!
It’s deja vu, only this time it’s with Islam.
Jay Boo says
Morsi was supposed to be the alternative to corruption in Egypt.
Morsi was supposed to be ushering a new and improved version on the Muslim Brotherhood fully endorsed by Obama, Hillary and NPR.
Obama, Hillary and NPR screwed over Egypt in order get Islam’s butt-kissing brownie points.
underbed cat says
The stategic memorandom that Stephen talks briefly about, plans of the muslim organizations to pave the way in the minds that Islam is peaceful, is really important to know. It is an amazing that the exposure did not have time to be revealed since I think it was timed just as Obama took office and suppressed. They were successful in deceiving former President Bush, as they were his consultants before and after 9/11.
I remember clearly the day that President Bush, surrounded by muslims announced that Islam was a religion of peace…and feeling a bit of panic, that he was way off the mark. The information that Osama kept annoucing in his video’s ,Islam was at war with the U.S, and was being reported by the real news media at that time and some prior truth I was exposed too in HS, (many years prior) by a muslim who spoke openly….(what you usually don’t hear), I knew it was not just a religion, but wanted world domination. Now I see they used (jihad) violence, deception, migration, ideology and organizations to achieve it.
The U.S, has been their target for many years.
Jack Diamond says
“The Project” document coincided with the rechartering of the Brotherhood in 1982 as the Muslim Brotherhood International. Among its recommendations: –Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations; Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”; Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law; Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals; Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”; Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support; Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims; Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination; Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them; Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement; Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world; Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West; Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West; Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”; Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world; a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world.