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Pentagon still unsure of whether to link Islam with violent jihad

Oct 7, 2016 9:32 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic jihadists routinely link Islam with violent jihad. In all their communiques and all their appeals for support, and in all their attempts to recruit peaceful Muslims, they invoke the Qur’an and Muhammad. The fact that this is controversial and still being discussed fifteen years after 9/11 is an indication of how deep the denial, and how serious the crisis, is in Washington.

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“Pentagon still unsure whether to link Islam & violent Jihad,” by Hillel Fendel, Israel National News, October 7, 2016 (thanks to David):

Staffers in various departments in the Pentagon (the U.S. Defense Department) are busy preparing a document known as the National Military Strategy – but have not yet come to an agreement on at least one critical point regarding the worldwide terror threat.

The biennial document, intended for senior U.S. military commanders around the world, sets out big picture strategy guidance in light of the myriad threats they may face in the line of duty. This is the first one prepared under the guidance of Gen. Joseph Dunford, who took office as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff exactly a year ago.

The debate taking place at present concerns whether or not to clearly specify the strong connection between extremist Islam and terrorism.

Staffers of the Special Operations Command (SoCom) in the Pentagon believe that the report must note that Salafi jihadism is the branch of Sunni Islam that is responsible for most global terrorism in the world today. Salafi jihadism is the ideology shared by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

“Pretending there is no relationship between the violent jihadists and Islam isn’t going to win,” a source knowledgeable about the National Military Strategy told The Washington Times. “We’re completely ignoring the war of ideas. We’re still in denial. We’re pretending the enemy doesn’t exist.”

The source said that the issue cannot be viewed only in terms of those who believe in active violence: “It’s a much bigger problem, because it’s not just the violent jihadists; it’s the non-violent jihadists who support them.”

SoCom is the branch of the military charged with hunting down and killing terrorists. Countering its opinion, Gen. Dunford’s staff is reportedly not convinced that the term “Salafi jihadism” should be included in the report.…

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  1. Moses says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 9:42 am

    Violence is directly linked to Islam it’s not rocket science but with the current administration I’m not surprised at all they seem not to care at all.

    • robm says

      Oct 8, 2016 at 9:40 am

      Admin is Moslem Brotherhood

  2. mortimer says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 9:51 am

    GASLIGHTING : A vicious fallacy of illogic, DELIBERATELY changing or distorting facts, memories, scenes, events and evidence in order to DISORIENT, CONFUSE and to make a vulnerable opponent doubt his/her sanity. This fallacy is named after British playwright Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play “Gas Light,” also known as “Angel Street.” Gaslighting is a MALEVOLENT form of PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION in which intentionally false information is given to the victims in order to make them doubt their own observations, memories, thoughts and perceptions.

    The American government is MALEVOLENTLY MANIPULATING and DISINFORMING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT ISLAM?

    What will you say to your political representatives about that? NOW IS THE TIME BEFORE THE ELECTION!

    • Sheykh Yer Weeni says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 10:18 am

      mortimer, shukran. The Infidel Imam thanks you. I shall add this term, “gaslighting”, to my military vocabulary.

      • Sheykh Yer Weeni says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 10:20 am

        M, I must add that the whole “Islamophobia” narrative would be called gaslighting, right?

        • t. says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 11:31 am

          “the whole “Islamophobia” narrative would be called gaslighting, right?”

          Right, and even more than that, Sheykh!

    • t. says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 11:32 am

      This is one of your best comments, mortimer!

  3. LB says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Robert, I’m assuming that the “knowledgeable source” is you? It sound like a very islamo-savvy person.

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:04 am

    The American government of Obama has been treating WELL-READ, WELL-INFORMED WESTERN STUDENTS OF ISLAM AS THE ENEMIES OF THE US GOVERNMENT!

    If you have read Islam’s foundational source texts, Sharia law, the canonical commentaries of Islam’s ‘consensus’, and 1400 years of Islamic history AND UNDERSTAND THEM PERFECTLY … then the US government CONSIDERS YOU TO BE MENTALLY ILL AND DANGEROUSLY SO!

    “ISLAMOPHOBIC” means that you are well-informed and see that the US government’s ‘NARRATIVE’ about Islam is a DELIBERATE FALSIFICATION and INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION of Islamic doctrine, history and Islamic practices so that the US government can maintain the FICTION that SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN are not encouraging JIHAD TERRORISM. The American people are being manipulated to join this unconvincing CHARADE!

    The US government has been declaring that when a Westerner has a profound and CORRECT understanding of Islam’s essential doctrines, it is MENTAL ILLNESS! However, if an Islamist religious leader understands ISLAMIC TEACHINGS in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, then the Islamist is NOT INSANE according to the American government.

    • Sheykh Yer Weeni says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 10:35 am

      mortimer, yes exactly! The whole Western world is afraid of being called “Islamophobic”. There is even a sinisterly-humorous commercial produced by CAIR [which as you know is a front for the Army of Muhammad (alahi al-salam)] which extols the benefits of a medication called “Islamophobicin”. “Islamophobia” is even in the dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/islamophobia
      I, the Infidel Imam, am concerned that this “gaslighting” tactic will make people afraid to speak the truth about Islam, even here in the US. I would love to know exactly how many Muslims have been killed here (or in EU) as the result of “Islamophobia”. I cannot remember the last time the (leftist-Islamist) news published one. For the thousandth time, there is no such thing as “Islamophobia”! Fearing/hating Islam is as rational as fearing/hating a plague of cobras.

      • t. says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 11:40 am

        Sheykh, will you stop posting completely rational and logical comments on this article; I can’t keep up with them?

  5. thelastvirgingoat says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:13 am

    Gaslighting is pretty normal behavior for muslims. Hence they stone wommen for being raped. ofcoure their slaves where treated like Kings. They’re wommen are the most emancipated in the world. Islamic civilization is the epitome of science and technology. The prophet was a champion of wommen rights and humanitarianism.and Islam is the religion of peace and love.

  6. Sheykh Yer Weeni says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:14 am

    This still amazes me. The Infidel Imam wonders what has to happen before US officials, in this case military leaders, see that Islam does literally mean “Submission (to Allah)”, and that Muhammad (alaihi al-salam) did literally say, for example, “Fight those who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, (even if they are) People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9.29, also see 9.33, 60.4) What does the Army of Muhammad (aas) have to do, launch a full-scale war on our homeland, before these “leaders” recognize our enemy?

    • t. says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 11:45 am

      “Muhammad (alaihi al-salam)”

      I find your comments to be interesting but why you keep saying the above quote?

      You’re not a Muslim anymore?

  7. Don McKellar says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:17 am

    NEWSFLASH: Scientists still uncertain whether to link the reason to breathe with the need for oxygen.

  8. robm says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Snowflakes….Snowflakes running the Pentagon?

  9. kessler says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:55 am

    I doubt the people at the Pentagon are that stupid. The questions is “can we get away with linking Islam with violent Jihad, or will we get in trouble”.
    Of course, the latter option will be the outcome. Which means the people at the Pentagon simply lack balls and prfioritize political correctness to national security.

    • Norger says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 11:38 pm

      Yes. Our own Pentagon won’t speak the truth, out of fear of offending the “moderates” whom we supposedly need to combat Islamists. Extreme denial and timidity as official national security policy, just like Europe.

  10. duh swami says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:56 am

    Climate change causes terrorism…We know that because Bernie and Prince Charles said so…Islam has nothing to do with it…We know that because Rasool Obama and Hillary both say so…

  11. underbed cat says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    Think word purge. No islam, jihad etc.etc……..adjectives which describe the enemy or the doctrine. It has been purged by who else but the M/B….very clever.

  12. Peter says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    DOD – Department of Delusion.

  13. Infidel from Down Under says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    Is it The Pentagon who is unsure or their Commander in Chief ?

    I suspect the latter

  14. Kim says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    Go on, Pentagon, do it…..make my day

  15. Angemon says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    The debate taking place at present concerns whether or not to clearly specify the strong connection between extremist Islam and terrorism.

    What do muslims have to do to get their attention, fly a plane into it? Oh, wait…

    Staffers of the Special Operations Command (SoCom) in the Pentagon believe that the report must note that Salafi jihadism is the branch of Sunni Islam that is responsible for most global terrorism in the world today. Salafi jihadism is the ideology shared by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

    This is a dangerous pit to fall in – say that one type of islam is responsible for terrorism. How does salafi islam differs on the treatment of non-muslims? Or apostates? Or women? Or the imperative to wage war against non-muslims to spread islamic law? The only difference is that salafis are sitting on oil and so can afford to go from words to actions. Look at Iran. They’re not salafis. The routinely shout “death to America”. They support islamic terror groups.

    The source said that the issue cannot be viewed only in terms of those who believe in active violence: “It’s a much bigger problem, because it’s not just the violent jihadists; it’s the non-violent jihadists who support them.”

    Yes! That’s exactly the problem: you can’t just point to a sub-sect of islam or a specific group of muslims and say “these people are out with guns killing people therefore they are the problem”. The people with guns killing other people do not exist in a vacuum. They have a large backing behind them that supports their ideas, even if they can’t/won’t take up arms and start killing people. And there’s more than one way to wage jihad – to wage holy war against the enemies of allah, against the “Great Satan”. What is lying and saying that islam is a religion of peace or that the people who take up arms and start killing people are not acting in accordance to islamic tenets if no jihad as well? Go back to WWII and both the allies and the Axis fought the war of propaganda. I don’t remember Britain, France or the US scratching their heads and going “well, this chap, Goebbels, is saying that the people fighting us have nothing to do with Germany, Italy or Japan, so let’s not attack them”.

  16. Ciudadano says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    It is a positive sign that they are pondering about the relation between Islam and terrorism. To me the problem goes well beyond terrorism. The scope should be Islam and religious intolerance. Religious intolerance that manifests itself sometimes as terrorism, but more frequently as human rights violations. This approach could lead to a more comprehensive strategy for dealing with the Islamic problem, from intelligence, military, policy and diplomacy.

    Narrowing the problem just to terrorism is like fighting the Hydra. Once you cut off one head, two more grow to replace the lost one. The west have to attack the core of the beast. Islamic bigotry and legitimization of violence has to stop.

  17. underbed cat says

    Oct 8, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    Pent…..What do the terrorist read? Hmmm start there. What do the mosque teach that they’ll never hear?
    Why is it a terrorist says they are fighting for Allah. ? Why and who has told you otherwise.? Do you know who the OIC is or the MB? Do you know sharia is a legal system? why does my 9/11 Book use words you cannot.? Guess what my high school friend told me…in the 60’s…same stuff….sounded pretty creepy, never thought that at this time in my life I’d see it unfold…..guess how old this doctrine is?

    Russia did not fly planes……

  18. Oh One More Thing says

    Oct 8, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    WTF

  19. Troybeam says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    Simply put, No one in the ranks of Military elite have read the Quran or sharia law, they are being led by CAIR plus no one can think outside the Obama box.

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