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Hugh Fitzgerald: Things Are Looking Up Down Under, Or, Sensitivity Training Follies

Jun 11, 2016 10:08 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Australian Defence Forces

An Australian researcher, Charles Miller, has just published a report on the effect of cultural sensitivity training, intended to improve attitudes toward Muslims among members of the Australian Defense Forces.

The study was conducted in a way that preserved the anonymity of those questioned, which meant that, since they did not have to reveal their identities, and thus no longer feared repercussions, the soldiers could answer truthfully about how they viewed Islam. The need for such measures must have been prompted by past experience, when those who had dared to express anti-Islam sentiments on questionnaires, and whose identities were known, suffered as a consequence. Anonymity was thus essential to eliciting truthful answers from those asked to describe their views of Islam, and it seems to have worked.

The results were not what anyone expected. According to a report in The Guardian, Miller said:

“This study has found strong evidence that many members of the ADF’s elite units simply do not buy the official line presented by Western leaders from George W Bush on that ‘Islam is a religion of peace.’ Anti-Muslim sentiment is strong at least among some of the elements of the ADF at the forefront of deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.”

The Guardian report adds:

Anti-Muslim sentiment is “strong” and “probably quite widespread” among Australian defence force members and was higher among those who had undergone cultural sensitivity training, according to research commissioned by the army.

Soldiers from four special operations units based at Holsworthy army base were asked whether they believed “the Muslim religion promotes violence and terrorism”.

Of the 182 people who took part, an estimated 80% agreed with the sentiment, according to lead researcher Charles Miller from the Australian National University….

Miller estimated that the proportion of soldiers who had undergone cultural sensitivity training and agreed that Islam promoted violence was about 91%.

“The corresponding figure for those who have not had cultural sensitivity training is a mere 17%,” he wrote in a paper published in the autumn edition of the Australian Army Journal (pdf).”

What could possibly explain why the Australian soldiers who had undergone the sensitivity training exhibited a much higher incidence of “anti-Muslim sentiment” than those who had not? Could it be that the “sensitivity training” presents a view of Islam, and of Muslims, quite different from what these military men experienced when fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, both with Muslim allies and against Muslim enemies (and sometimes those allies could become deadly enemies overnight), and that the more this “cultural sensitivity training” was pushed down their throats, the more they gagged on it? Attempting to force the soldiers to believe what for them was the opposite of what they had experienced likely pushed them even further toward adopting their “anti-Muslim sentiments.”

Furthermore, Miller noted that among those who served and underwent the sensitivity training, anti-Muslim sentiment was more pronounced among men who were “at the forefront of deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan,” served in the Australian army’s most elite units, saw combat more often, and had more experience with Muslims (enemies, allies, the civilian population). Neil James of the Australian Defence Association replied to those who flung the word “Islamophobic” at these troops:

“When these blokes live cheek by jowl with the problem on a daily basis…they have a more sophisticated understanding than people back here in Australia. Now the idea that this somehow makes our diggers Islamophobic, the Defence Association finds it outrageous.”

Those who had not been forced to endure “cultural sensitivity training” sessions about Muslims were much more likely to exhibit the very attitudes that this “training” was designed to elicit, that is, views more favorable to Islam, such as disagreeing with the statement that “the Muslim religion promotes violence and terrorism.” They were more open to, or more exactly, easier prey for, such training. They were being fed a line that for most did not contradict their own experiences with Muslims, because, unlike “the elements of the ADF at the forefront of deployment,” they lacked any such experience.

What’s a poor cultural sensitivity trainer to do? The more he imposes pro-Muslim “training” on those who have actually learned, in Iraq and Afghanistan, about Muslim behavior and attitudes, the more he finds the soldiers express the anti-Muslim sentiments the sensitivity training was meant to eliminate.

As head researcher, Charles Miller sounded his own note of caution about the value of the training enterprise when he reported “that many members of the ADF’s elite units simply do not buy the official line presented by Western leaders from George W Bush on that ‘Islam is a religion of peace.’” “Do not buy the official line” suggests his, Miller’s, own skepticism about the assertion that “Islam is a religion of peace.”

But at the same time, Miller feels compelled to offer possible changes in the cultural sensitivity training to ensure the desired result, suggesting that perhaps one day of training was too short:

He [Miller] cautioned against declaring the one-day cultural sensitivity training a failure, noting that only soldiers who were deployed to the battlefield underwent the course. “It could simply be that this [positive] effect is being comprehensively drowned out either by the effects of overseas deployment or by whichever factors caused individuals to join units which would be deployed overseas in the first place,” Miller said.

What does this mean? The “[positive] effect” of sensitivity training is “drowned out” by “the effects of overseas deployment” — that is, by encounters with Muslims, military and civilian, enemies and allies, which makes the soldiers much less inclined to accept what they are taught in the cultural sensitivity course. And along with that “overseas deployment” (to Muslim lands), Miller suggests that the same “factors” that “caused individuals to join” the front-line combat units make them more likely to give the “wrong answers” about Islam on questionnaires. What kind of people join the “units which would be deployed overseas in the first place”? Obviously, those imbued with patriotic fervor, the people who are most gung-ho for taking the fight to enemies abroad. In other words, the wrong kind of Australian for today’s Australia, those most impervious to “cultural sensitivity training” and most likely to give “the wrong answers.” These are the kind of men who, in the two world wars, would have been held up as exemplars of Australian fighting men. Now, with their refusal to call Islam a “religion of peace,” their views are cause for alarm, and great efforts (“cultural sensitivity training”) need to be made to change their minds.

What is to be done to ensure that this “cultural sensitivity training” does the job it’s supposed to do? Miller suggests that a “higher dose of the training” – it’s talked of as if it were a kind of mind-altering drug which, in truth, such training aims to be – “could” lead to better results. But isn’t it at least as likely that if more time is devoted to the training – a few days, or even a week or two of earnest brainwashing – the more it will have the opposite effect of what was intended, especially among those who, having been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, had acquired their own knowledge of Muslims and Islam? Those who resist now at having a day’s worth of politically-correct views forced on them will be far more resistant if they must endure a week’s worth of the same, as they see it, nonsense.

What can be done to achieve the “right” results? Perhaps giving the “cultural sensitivity” training only to soldiers who have not been deployed abroad and actually learned something about Islam? After all, not having had experience fighting with or beside Muslims, or experience with Muslim civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, means that they are more open to being given a sanitized view of Islam billed as “cultural sensitivity training.” It’s all so confusing. Less is more, and more is less.

So, cultural sensitivity trainers of Australia, doing your best for Islam – keep it up. Do your damnedest. Your “training” is getting results. Just not the results you wanted.

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:14 am

    In the interest of peaceful coexistence I would love to give Arabs in the Middle East a stiff arm THUMBS UP gesture.

    Oops!
    I must be culturally insensitive.

    • DJ says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 2:13 pm

      The Fonz is our secret weapon.
      These happy days are yours and mine.

    • خَليفة says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 11:14 pm

      How about those Muslims having some cultural sensitivity training for western culture?

      Starting with a bikini contest, followed by a wet T-shirt contest, followed by a BBQ with port ribs, hot dogs and beer and then a drag queen parade.

      Oh wait, Muslims are uber xenophobic and super-supremists so are only interested in Muslim things – why should we, the civilized kuffar, want to know anything about their sexually-perverted, mysoginistic, backward, stupid ways?

      • خَليفة says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 11:15 pm

        Pork ribs… ( hate this autocorrect )

      • Leonidas says

        Jun 12, 2016 at 11:17 am

        Excellent idea!
        In allmuslim lands we should demand they learn to tolerate short skirts,lownecklines,leggings,bikinis,pork meat,dogs,churchbells,girls education,dancing,mixed sea swimming,beauty contests,respect apostates from Islam,purge the section from the Koran that says muslims are forbidden to be friends with jews, christians and Kafirs- infidels who may tempt the muslims to stray from the right path and, if they refuse to become muslims ,to kill them or force them to pay the humiliating jizya tax.
        Also denounce Muhammad who was a rapist ,pedophile,mass murderer,torturer,liar, bandit and slave trader according to eye witnesses in Sira and Hadith as a disgusting criminal!!

      • Sandra Lee Smith says

        Jun 12, 2016 at 6:58 pm

        That was my thought too; they’re the ones with the real problems fitting in. It’s up to THEM to blend, not us!

      • Peter the Hermit says

        Jun 12, 2016 at 7:51 pm

        Boy, would I enjoy developing a “cultural sensitivity” training course for Muslims! My syllabus would include:

        1. Why the Muslim scriptures are totally culturally insensitive.
        2. Examples of Muhammad’s cultural insensitivity.
        3. The cultural insensitivity of Sharia law.
        4. How cultural insensitivity drives Muslims to leave Islam.
        5. What you as a Muslim can do to become culturally sensitive (Application form for the Witness Protection Program attached).

  2. Angry Aussie says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Australians aren’t stupid when it comes to the threat of Islam. We are sick of Muslim appeasement from both sides of federal government and the exceptions made for followers of the moon god by way of government grants and leniency for severe crimes.

    Keep an eye on the upcoming election. A lot of anti Islam political parties have formed. The current Liberal government and Labor opposition will be in for a surprise. I guess it’s to be expected when career politicians no longer serve the people but themselves.

    In years to come, an investigation may well find that there is a money trail from Saudi Arabia to Canberra. Why else would politicians sell out their own countries?

    • PRCS says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 12:17 pm

      I noticed, down the left side of the Guardian article, another article about a hijabed Australian Navy Captain’s website being shut down–after complaints by an “anti-Islam” group.

      Make sure to read the Australian Liberty Alliance’s press release, too.

      I’m glad their complaint resulted in the account being “decommissioned”, if you will, but do wonder if the CAPT was ever reprimanded for those tweets.

      PRCS
      USN (ret)

      • umbra says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 2:50 pm

        There has been no public record of her being reprimanded. She is a protected species and her backer is none other than vice admiral timothy barrett (chief of the Royal Australian Navy). Vice admiral barrett is of course a fool when it comes to islam.

        • PRCS says

          Jun 11, 2016 at 11:49 pm

          Yes, I see that he participated in Ramadan fasting “in solidarity” with Muslims.

        • ScottM says

          Jun 12, 2016 at 4:11 am

          barrett is a wanker – he’s a sanctimonious bureaucrat – not a warrior’s arsehole. We have .03% muslims in the ADF – he orders that 50% of ration packs are to be halal. This imbecile and his cohort must be stopped. God help us if we actually have a real war – as this deadshit couldn’t run a bath.

        • PRCS says

          Jun 12, 2016 at 7:01 am

          Scott,

          Certainly doesn’t sound good.

          From his bio, I can’t tell if he is/was an aviator/a surface guy/something else.

          One would think that civilian administrators of the Aussie military would have at least asked why he mandated halal rats.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Depopulate the Muslim Middle East of women to destroy Islam.

    Why not? American men should learn to appreciate Arab culture.
    I advise that to be happy for the rest of your life every American man should make an ex-Muslim woman their wife.

    There is a huge back-log of women in the Middle East would just love to leave Islam. Marry a non-Muslim Westernize American and live in the United States as a non-Muslim.

    Make an Arab woman your wife
    tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5naoW6ntOo

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 11:56 am

      (ex-Muslims) only
      No Koranimals allowed

    • Leonidas says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 11:02 am

      The Koran states women are inferior to men , wives must be beaten by their husbands for disobedience and that ALL women will go to hell unless their husband says they were pleased with them.Those women who accept the above are deranged masochists and the rest of muslim women yearn for FREEDOM!

  4. Hope says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:07 am

    I love this line:

    ….the more this “cultural sensitivity training” was pushed down their throats, the more they gagged on it…

    I think that is exactly what’s happening to so many people, worldwide. The multicultural brainwashing is beginning to wear off. These soldiers’ own personal experiences contradict the shameful lies and propaganda churned out by the government. Even a child can see through this “religion of peace” crap! Either our leaders will have to stop imposing islam on us, or civil uprisings will begin to break out. The current situation cannot continue. We have had enough already.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 3:10 pm

      “Religion of Peace” == Peace of slavery or peace of the grave — same as socialism and esp COMMUNISM

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 4:27 am

      Hogwash meets reality.

    • Leonidas says

      Jun 12, 2016 at 11:24 am

      The more you know about Islam the more disgusting it becomes!
      YOU CANNOT SHINE S**T!

  5. ECAW says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:09 am

    This is the best news I have heard since yesterday’s poll result that shows a 10 point lead for Brexit. In both cases the grunts have shown there are limits to how far the elites can fool them.

  6. billybob says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:26 am

    This is hilarious. Trying to sell a pack of lies as “sensitivity training”… of course it’s gonna backfire. That was entirely predictable. Rather than analyze the subjects in an attempt to understand why the lessons didn’t take hold, they need to analyze the material. Furthermore, they need to analyze the goals of the program. Why is it desirable that troops be “sensitive”?

    I don’t think we should be expecting soldiers to be sensitive. In fact, their training is all about desensitizing them to violence so that they made do their job, killing as necessary, to defend the state.

    However, soldiers need to be more than just brutes. Warfare often requires subtleties such as deception that are just as fundamental to the art of warfare as brute force. Knowing the enemy to be better able to predict his movements and reactions can be more important than brute force on occassion.

    Being able to pacify a conquered population is another situation that calls for subtlety rather than simple brute force. This is where one might want to employ “sensitivity” – but NOT the PC kind of sensitivity,
    What is required is _understanding_ of the culture, not _appreciation_ for it.

    Understanding a culture can prevent riots and rebellions before they begin. If soldiers are employed in a place like Iraq where they are surrounded by Muslims, they need to understand that they should not set up a pork barbeque or they will start a riot. Then the kind of sensitivity called for is a very practical understanding of who you are dealing with. Very different than the PC kind of sensitivity that demands you learn to appreciate and respect cultural or religious aspects that are not deserving of your respect.

    The trainers in the story need to analyze their own goals and assumptions first, then the material second. It is not their role to make soldiers accepting of Islam and its followers. It should be their goal to give the soldiers accurate information so that these may hide their innate revulsion of this vile religion when necessary to deceive the enemy.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 3:13 pm

      And “Knowing the enemy ” — has absolutely NOTHING to do with being ‘sensitive’ to the bastards

  7. Ice Star says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 11:27 am

    How about making “cultural sensitivity” courses to Muslims instead?

    • umbra says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 2:53 pm

      Impractical, they will just “admiral Akbar” those trainers.

  8. Mike Ramirez says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 12:11 pm

    Perhaps the following fatwa and instructions to jihadists should be part of the “sensitivity training”. This way we can all say that suicide bombers and Islamic terrorists just need to be understood better and not hurt their feelings by questioning what they have been taught. This was written around the period of the Ft Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan:

    Article: Definition of Martyrdom Operations, and their effect on the Enemy

    “Martyrdom or self-sacrifice operations are those performed by one or more people, against enemies far outstripping them in numbers and equipment, with prior knowledge that the operations will almost inevitably lead to death.

    The form this usually takes nowadays is to wire up one’s body, or a vehicle or suitcase with explosives, and then to enter amongst a conglomeration of the enemy, or in their vital facilities, and to detonate in an appropriate place there in order to cause the maximum losses in the enemy ranks, taking advantage of the element of surprise and penetration. Naturally, the enacter of the operation will usually be the first to die.

    Another technique is for an armed Mujahid to break into the enemy barracks, or area of conglomeration, and fire at them at close-range, without having prepared any plan of escape, nor having considered escape a possibility. The objective is to kill as many of the enemy as possible, and he will almost certainly die.”

    “The name ‘suicide-operations’ used by some is inaccurate, and in fact this name was chosen by the Jews to discourage people from such endeavours. How great is the difference between one who commits suicide – because of his unhappiness, lack of patience and weakness or absence of iman and has been threatened with Hell-Fire – and between the self-sacrificer who embarks on the operation out of strength of faith and conviction, and to bring victory to Islam, by sacrificing his life for the upliftment of Allah’s word!

    As for the effects of these operations on the enemy, we have found, through the course of our experience that there is no other technique which strikes as much terror into their hearts, and which shatters their spirit as much. On account of this they refrain from mixing with the population, and from oppressing, harassing and looting them. They have also become occupied with trying to expose such operations before they occur, which has distracted them from other things. Praise is to Allah. Many of their imminent plans were foiled, and furthermore, Putin issued a severe condemnation of the Home Affairs and Defense Ministers, placing the responsibility on them, and threatening high-level reshufflings in the two ministries. Those troops who are not busy trying to foil martyrdom operations are occupied with removal of Russian corpses, healing the wounded, and drawing out plans and policies from beneath the debris. This is all on the moral level.”

    “On the material level, these operations inflict the heaviest losses on the enemy, and are lowest in cost to us. The cost of equipment is negligible in comparison to the assault; in fact the explosives and vehicles were captured as war-booty, such that we returned them to the Russians in our special way! The human casualty is a single life, who is in fact a martyr and hero gone ahead to Gardens of Eternity, inshaa-Allah. As for the enemy, their losses are high; after the last operation, they had over 1,600 dead and wounded, and the most crucial concentration of Russian forces in Chechnya was completely destroyed.

    All of this was achieved by the efforts of only four heroes. We feel sure that the Russians will not remain long in our land with such operations continuing. Either they will fear aggregation, in which case they will become easy targets for attack, or they will gather together to combat the assaults, in which case the martyrdom operations will be sufficient – Allah willing – to disperse them. If they wish to keep matters under control, they would need more than 300,000 troops in every city, and this is no exaggeration.”
    “One can see how much fear the operations in Palestine caused, and that they were a major factor in convincing the Jews to grant self-rule to the Palestinians, hoping that they could be more easily controlled in that way. In Chechnya, the damage is much greater than in similar operations in Palestine, on account of Russian fortification being much less than that possessed by the Jews.”

    Original Source: http://alhaqq.jeeran.com/ruling.html

    Active link: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Islamic_Ruling_on_the_Permissibility_of_Martyrdom_Operations

    Questionable teachings of Islam http://www.Starman3000.com

    • billybob says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      That is somehow so depressing.

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:24 pm

      The FATWA is of course very logical in cost effectiveness. A few dead suiciders against hundreds of Kuffar is perfectly plausible.

      The answer should of course be as DRACONIAN as the Fatwa:
      1. Execute every Imam
      2, Close every mosque & madrassah
      3. Prohibit Hijab & Niqab
      4. For a whole year EDUCATE the population about Islam by revealing the TRUTH about Muhammad & his Quran based entirely upon the Islamic sources that actually DISPROVE Muhammad as a Prophet and the alleged divine origin of his Quran
      5. Millions of Muslims will leave Islam or CONVERT to Christianity

      A WIN WIN situation without firing a single bullet

      IQ al Rassool
      Kafir & Proud!

      • خَليفة says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 4:40 pm

        And let’s have an international “get out of Islam” day.

  9. Est says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    I’ve done a lot of diversity and sensitivity training. It is always fear-based and manipulative. It seems to operate on the idea that if you can get people to parrot an ideology, you have gotten them to believe it. People will do many things to keep their jobs, and pretending to believe something is one of them.

    Islam is in a losing game. The non-Muslims who like Islam are those who know very little about it and don’t pay attention to world events. To learn about Islam in depth is usually to dislike it.

  10. Guest says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    “Anti-Islam?” I prefer guardian of my culture

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Guardian of My Culture is positive instead of negative, and could evolve into something proactive instead of being frozen in reactive mode. Whatever, we need a name. Right now the most accurate name is Resistors in a Defensive War against Islam’s Unprovoked Attack on Our Peace and Freedom. That’s a mouthful.

      • PRCS says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 1:46 pm

        RDWIUAOPF?

        RIADWAIUAOOPAF?

        Needs work.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Jun 12, 2016 at 12:04 am

        How about, “Defenders of Civilization”?

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Jun 12, 2016 at 8:10 am

          If it weren’t that Rowling would probably get a bit sticky about copyright, *I* think “the Order of the Phoenix” has a nice ring to it.

  11. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Soldiers from four special operations units based at Holsworthy army base were asked whether they believed “the Muslim religion promotes violence and terrorism”.

    Of the 182 people who took part, an estimated 80% agreed with the sentiment

    If the surveyed soldiers who went through sensitivity training course had first been put through a 101 level course on the Holy Ko-Ran and the Hah-Deaths, with tests, the number would’ve been somewhere in the general range of 100%.

    Meanwhile, things are so good up here in America, where the senior brass in the Pentagon and at the major bases and ports seem to be happily pacified by ex-Prez Dubya’s definition of Islam. The best example of this, and there are many, is the execrable Gen. David Petraeus, who is now in line to potentially sign on as Hillary’s running mate. That would put him in some fine company, including Moslem Sisterhood member Huma Abedin. But Gen. David would fit right in. In Iraq he “won” a fake and temporary “victory” during the surge in Iraq by showering local tribal leaders with hard earned U.S. taxpayer dollars. And that’s what Hillary’s socialist program will be, same as Obama’s, the showering of prerogates with hard earned U.S. taxpayer dollars for a fake and temporary economic victory.

  12. Nigel GFF says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    I must admit that I giggled through most of this report and especially the discussion notes by Mr Fitzgerald (not a pretty site – my giggling, not HF).

    This sensitivity training is a bit of a misnomer and I reckon should read, something like … ‘Muslim Sensibility Recognition’ (a little like IED spotting and neutralising training – a bit of a mouth full). What training was given of other cultures? Was a similar inverse correlation observed with, say, ‘tree huggers?

    “When these blokes live cheek by jowl with the problem on a daily basis…they have a more sophisticated understanding than people back here in Australia. Now the idea that this somehow makes our diggers Islamophobic, the Defence Association finds it outrageous.”

    Quite right to, mate.

    A day well spent for these ‘diggers’, 91% good on yer. I don’t know if it was a simple gag response, or it could be they wised with the text and that is encouraging.

  13. Angemon says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    Attempting to force the soldiers to believe what for them was the opposite of what they had experienced likely pushed them even further toward adopting their “anti-Muslim sentiments.”

    Well, who are those soldiers supposed to believe – the trainer or their lying eyes and ears?

    • umbra says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 2:58 pm

      … lying eyes, ear and bullet (IED) wounds.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 3:21 pm

      “When you put your hand in a puddle of goo that a moment before was your best friend’s face — you’ll know what to do!”

  14. Paula says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    Perhaps if they used this South Park Muslim sensitivity training clip they would have better results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aQ4D-6pok

  15. Kiwi Kaffir says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Just imagine that, in 1942, some government organisation tried to promote the idea that we had nothing to fear from national socialism – it was the ideology of the Germans and Austrians, those peaceful, gentle, tolerant people who had given us Mozart and Beethoven, Dresden porcelain and cuckoo clocks. We should ignore the misguided actions of a few lone wolves who had been led astray by a certain A. Hitler who had misunderstood German culture. A few home-based soldiers might have bought it, but those who had seen the German Army in action in Greece and North Africa would have expressed their derision.

    Of course, in 1942 no government would have been so deluded as to try to persuade us that Nazi ideology was essentially benign. So why are they doing it now with Islam?

    • PRCS says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      The Allies weren’t desperate for German votes.

  16. Emet-Veritas says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    How is it that the conclusion that ‘Islam is NOT a religion of peace’ equals “anti-Muslim sentiment”?

    In some respects, this is like saying that a rodent is not a pretty animal, so one is anti-rodent.

    Or a monkey is not as smart as a human, so one is anti-monkey.

    That is simply untrue. There are some who are attracted to Islam because they have concluded that it is not a religion of peace, i.e., “the strong horse.” Just as there are some who acknowledge that rodents are not pretty, but keep them as pets anyway.

    The point – just because something is “not peaceful” in a person’s estimation does not equate to that person being anti-it.

  17. خَليفة says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    No amount of “sensitivity” training about aboriginal cannibal culture will make me feel eating
    “long pig”, ( a euphemism for “Human” ) is ok. I’ve been told that the cannibals of Papua New Guinea really like Spam, they claim it tastes very much like long pig. ( This from a priest who was there in the 1940s)

    No amount of Islamic sensitivity training will convince me that it is ok to beat women, or that if a women is raped she brought it on herself, or that a parent can kill their children or grandchildren if they suspect that child might leave Islam.

    Not all cultures or religions are the same. Just because a culture has something worthwhile, does not make it equal to other cultures, after all even a broken clock is right twice a day, but the rest of the time it’s wrong.

    ( what has Islam contributed to humankind ? Nothing that it did not steal from another culture and claim as its own )

    • SBJ says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:41 pm

      Agreed.

      One muslim poster tried to convince me muslims invented the crapper.
      I near died laughing. Digging a hole in the ground to poop, is not an invention.

      • Mike Ramirez says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 5:50 pm

        SBJ wrote, “One muslim poster tried to convince me muslims invented the crapper.
        I near died laughing.”

        Too funny! By the way, since toilet tissue was apparently not invented at that time, Muslims were instructed on the following bathroom procedure:

        “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: When anyone wipes himself with pebbles (after answering the call of nature) he must make use of an odd number and when any one of you performs ablution he must snuff in his nose water and then clean it.” (Sahih Muslim Book, Book 002, Number 0458)

        “Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked about cleaning after excretion. He replied, “Are any of you unable to find three stones?”
        (Malik’s Muwatta, Book 2, Number 2.6.28)

        more http://www.Starman3000.com

  18. Jay Boo says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Ironically …
    Six year old Aisha said that Muhammad was very fond of:

    ” … Looking Up, Down Under”

    • خَليفة says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 4:40 pm

      Haha

  19. jewdog says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    It sounds like the Land Down Under is also the Land Upside Down. Just use reverse psychology and have anti-Islam courses – that should produce the desired Islamophilic results. I’ve heard that it’s hazardous to drive in Australia as motorists go on red and stop on green. Yup, those courses have boomeranged.

  20. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    Whether it flushes clockwise or counterclockwise, Islam should be flushed. Or 90% of it should.

  21. Bushy says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    I am an old ex-soldier and I can assure all you readers that Diggers (Australian soldiers) have always employed a healthy scepticism when it come s to what comes out of the mouths of their leaders. We call it bullshit detection. This nonsense was introduced by a previous Army Chief, LtGen David Morrison, known around the traps as “Pooh-Faced” Dave due to his perpetual turned up nose as if there is something unspeakable foul beneath his nose. There is since the fox smells his own stink first. Old Pooh Face is currently Australian of the Year courtesy of his viral speech about how sexists etc were not welcome in the ADF. Nowadays he is retired from the military but he wants the use of “guys” banned from workplaces on the grounds that it is a sexist term and does a great deal of harm in the workplace. What does do harm in the workplace is inadequate rules of engagement in Afghanistan. But we don’t discuss that.

  22. TheBuffster says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    There’s another thing not mentioned in the article – when you have first-hand experience with something, and it contradicts the line being shoved at you by authorities, you have a strong motivation to get the contradiction settled. You’re more likely to go to the sources – the Koran, the Hadith, the Sira – to do research on your own to try to settle the mental dissonance with facts. What does the religion actually *say*? So the soldiers subjected to “sensitivity” training may be more likely to learn more on their own.

    Not only that, but just by getting soldiers together in a classroom to be indoctrinated about something gets them to talking with each other afterwards about it. The ones who already know more about Islam, who have read up on it from reliable sources and primary sources, will be prompted to tell their fellow soldiers what bullshit they’ve just been fed. The sensitivity sessions bring the subject up, and gives the knowledgeable a reason to push back for their brethren’s sake. Perhaps soldiers who are given the indoctrination are more likely to be motivated to then check into it themselves. I would expect this to happen even among those with no first-hand experience in Muslim countries.

    Reality is what it is. Independent minds who aim to know what it is can’t be brainwashed for long, and people whose job it is to put their lives on the line know more than anyone that if they don’t get reality right, they’re dead.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 11, 2016 at 10:49 pm

      Speaking of Qur’an, Hadith, Sira, here is a website that collects the juiciest examples, listed on the right side of the site, with reference links to a university website. Islam ain’t pretty if you look at it straight on, which few people are willing to do:
      http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com

      • ECAW says

        Jun 12, 2016 at 4:28 am

        Thanks for the link. Looks useful.

  23. Westman says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 12:09 am

    Occam’s Razor: Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

    Could it be that the “wrong answers” are right?

  24. Howard says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 5:13 am

    The new term “cultural sensitivity training” sounds so much nicer than the old term of “re-education camp”, don’t you think?

  25. kestrel says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 5:21 am

    Never thought I would be saying “good work” to these sanctimonious idiots.

  26. Echo says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 6:51 am

    I hate the term ‘cultural sensitivity.’

  27. Kasey says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 7:59 am

    It just shows that what is thought would be the outcome in theory, can be vastly different in practice once reality kicks in!

  28. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 8:26 am

    The “Guardian” wasn’t brave enough to open up their report for Comments.

    The “Australian” did.

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/most-adf-soldiers-believe-islam-promotes-violence-and-terrorism/news-story/a82e81ee27309612a5c120c3e121baee

    Most ADF soldiers ‘believe Islam promotes violence and terrorism’

    Click on the link and read the Comments; be encouraged.

    Here’s just one of many:
    “Never ever underestimate the inate inteligence of the average digger, they can smell bulldust from miles away and can always be relied upon to tell it like it is (no frills attached). ”

    And another – As a ‘civie contractor’ I routinely work with RAE and RAEME personnel and they all believe that ‘the religion that cannot be mentioned for fear of mentioning it’ is the enemy. It’s not just the “commandoes” [who think this].

    Another commenter remarked briefly (a propos Islam)”the Voldemort religion”.

    Columnist Tim Blair of the (Aussie) “Telegraph” also got a LOT of very interesting Comments when he had a bit to say about the subject at his blog.

    http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/they8/

    THEY’VE BEEN THERE AND THEY KNOW

    Click and read.

    I don’t know, now, what the percentage of Infidel citizens would be – whether soldiers or ordinary civilians – in many western countries (or for that matter, places like India) – that have *figured this thing out*.

    But surely it must be starting to reach some kind of critical mass. Remember: a committed ten percent is the bottom line. Perhaps we’re starting to get near that first ‘tipping point’.

    Oh, sure, there are plenty of the wilfully ignorant (as well as the simply-distracted and the blissfully-ignorant) around, not to mention the active wilful Islamophiles and well-groomed Dhimmis. But I do think the number of the Islamoinformed is increasing steadily.

  29. Roberto says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 8:45 am

    I can assure you that anti or perhaps better expressed a full understanding of Islam is very strong in the ADF. Plus the more the false ‘religion of peace’ message is rammed down their throats the more it’s resented. More Australian Muslims (>250) are fighting with ISIS that the ADF (<100 from ~100k ADF). Yet Muslims are 10% of the prison population. This anti Islamic sentiment is common in the vast majority of Australians and mirrors the ADF

  30. Dennis says

    Jun 12, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Though many Muslims are peaceful, Islam itself, through the Quran, is not peaceful. As an ex-pat living in India I personally experience a Muslim mentality of superior ism and feeling that the Hindus and others are somehow inferior.

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