McMaster is proceeding on the theory, which is almost universally taken for granted by the foreign policy establishment, that showing respect for the Qur’an and Islam will take the teeth out of the jihadi claim that the U.S. is at war with Islam, and win hearts and minds, resulting in reciprocal gestures of respect. But in reality, jihadis see this solicitude for the Qur’an as a sign that the Infidels know that Islam is true, and that Allah is granting the Muslims victory over them. And they look with contempt upon American weakness.
This is the kind of thinking that Trump seemed to have promised to sweep out. Instead, it is more entrenched than ever.
“H.R. McMaster Endorsed Book That Advocates Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies,” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, August 20, 2017:
TEL AVIV — A book on terrorism endorsed and touted by H.R. McMaster, the embattled White House National Security Adviser, calls on the U.S. military to respond to any “desecrations” of the Quran by service members with an apology ceremony, and advocates kissing a new copy of the Quran before presenting the Islamic text to the local Muslim public.
The book’s author further demanded that any American soldier who “desecrates” the Quran be ejected from the foreign country of deployment, relieved of duty and turned over to a military judge for “punishment.”
“Desecration” of the Quran, according to the McMaster-endorsed book, includes such acts as “letting the Quran fall to the ground during a search, or more blatant instances.”
The book, reviewed in full by this reporter, was authored by U.S. military officer Youssef H. Aboul-Enein and is titled Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat.
McMaster provided a glowing blurb for the book jacket, referring to Aboul-Enein’s book as “an excellent starting point” for understanding terrorist ideology.
McMaster also promoted the book in ARMOR, the journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, published at Fort Benning, Georgia, where McMaster served as commanding general at the Ft. Benning Maneuver Center of Excellence.
McMaster wrote in his blurb for the book: “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.”
In the blurb, McMaster revealed his own views on terrorism, claiming that “terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit undereducated and disenfranchised people to their cause.”
Aboul-Enein is listed as a senior adviser and analyst at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a position that he also held under the Obama administration. He is an officer in the Navy Medical Service Corps and Middle East Foreign Officer, and an adjunct military professor and chair of Islamic studies at the National Defense University.
Besides endorsing Militant Islamist Ideology, McMaster also wrote a forward for another Aboul-Enein book, this one titled Iraq in Turmoil: Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi, From the Ottoman Empire to King Feisal.
Quran ‘Desecration’
In the book, Aboul-Enein warned that “incidents of desecrating the Quran, such as letting the Quran fall to the ground during a search, or more blatant instances, allow our adversary to capitalize on outrage and to score points in the arena of public opinion.”
Any such “desecration” of the Quran, the author wrote, “would be considered an offense not only by Militant Islamists but by Islamists and wider Muslim community as well.”
Aboul-Enein recommended that “desecrations” of the Quran should be “quickly acknowledged, with unconditional apologies and reassurances to the public that the accused do not represent the United States or its military, that they have been ejected from the country and referred to their service’s judge advocate general for punishment.”
Besides ejecting the service member from the country of deployment and turning the soldier over to a judge for “punishment,” Aboul-Enein pointed to a May 2008 incident in which a U.S. Army sniper reportedly used the Quran for target practice. He upheld the response by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, as forming, in Aboul-Enein’s opinion, the minimal official U.S. military reaction to such desecrations.
The response included an “apology ceremony” at which a U.S. official kissed a copy of the Quran before presenting the text to the local community as a “humble gift.”
Aboul-Enein writes that Hammond took the following steps, “which in my opinion formed the basis by which American officials and Iraqi tribal leaders fighting al-Qaida can at least alleviate the emotionalism of such an event”:
- Hammond held “an apology ceremony, not a press conference, and he issued this statement, flanked by Iraqi Sunni leaders of the Radwaniyah District, where the incident had happened: ‘I come before you here seeking your forgiveness, in the most humble manner I look in your eyes today, and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.’”
- A U.S. official “kissed a new copy of the Quran and ceremoniously presented it to the tribal leaders.”
- Hammond read the following letter from the shooter: “I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together. … My actions were shortsighted, very reckless and irresponsible, but in my heart [the actions] were not malicious.”
- The offending sniper was “relieved of duty and reassigned.”
- Hammond himself commented, “The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior. … I’ve come to this land to protect you, to support you—not to harm you—and the behavior of this soldier was nothing short of wrong and unacceptable.”
The section on Quran “desecration” is not the only controversial part of the book. Breitbart News reported last week that Aboul-Enein’s book also calls Hamas an “Islamist political group” while failing to categorize the deadly organization as a terrorist group, and refers to al-Qaida attacks and anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance.”
The work frames jihad as a largely peaceful “means to struggle or exert effort,” such as waking up early in the morning to recite prayers. It argues that groups like al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations have hijacked the concept of jihad to wage war using such tactics as suicide bombings.
Hamas an ‘Islamist Political Group’
Throughout the McMaster-endorsed Militant Islamist Ideology book, Aboul-Enein struggles to properly categorize Hamas; but at no point does he call Gaza’s murderous Islamist rulers a terrorist organization.
Hamas is a terrorist group responsible for scores of deadly suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians. Hamas’s official charter calls for the obliteration of the Jewish state, and proclaims that there is “no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.” Hamas leaders routinely demand the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.
Yet Aboul-Enein struggles to properly classify Hamas. At one point, Aboul-Enein differentiates between “militant Islamists” and Hamas, grouping the latter among “Islamist political groups.”
In the book’s introduction, he writes:
Militant Islamists alienate not only the United States but even Islamist political groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. It is time for a more nuanced definition of the threat.
At another point, the author calls Hamas an “Islamist” group. He writes (page 131): “For instance, Zawahiri condemns Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas for participating in the electoral process.”
Despite its clear terrorist activities, Aboul-Enein suggests (page 2) that Hamas does not “fit into a neat category.” He asks an open question about whether Hamas “is an Islamist or Militant Islamist group,” but he does not provide an answer.
He writes (page 3):
There are also Islamists who do not fit into a neat category, such as the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. On one hand, Hamas provides social services, won 44 percent of the electorate in 2006, and is the government of the Palestinian territories. On the other hand, it has failed to compromise effectively with other Palestinian rejectionist and secular groups to form a governing coalition, and it has failed to provide social services for a wider Palestinian populace. In addition, it has conducted suicide operations directed against Israeli civilians – though it has not widened its campaign beyond targeting Israel. Further, al-Qaida senior leaders have viciously attacked Hamas for participating in electoral politics. The question for Americans is whether Hamas is an Islamist or Militant Islamist group.
Aboul-Enein fails to note that the U.S. government already answered that so-called question, designating Hamas as a foreign terrorist group.
In another section of the book, Aboul-Enein defines (page 193) Hamas as straddling “the Islamist and Militant Islamist divide, using its proficiency in suicide-bomber operations to strike at Israeli targets, yet it is currently in government.” He also writes (page 215) that Hamas “is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant organization and political party.”
Al-Qaida, Palestinian ‘Resistance’
In the book, Aboul-Enein refers to the deadly terrorism of al-Qaida in Iraq as “resistance.” Besides its worldwide mayhem, Al-Qaida has been responsible for countless terrorist attacks across Iraq that have targeted civilians, U.S. troops and Iraqi government institutions.
Aboul-Enein relates a struggle between the goals of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) and those of the Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) in terms of “resistance” locally versus a global fight against the West.
Aboul-Enein writes (page 101):
In post-Saddam Iraq, among the Sunni insurgency there are other stressors that undermine al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI), such as the tensions between the Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) and al-Qaida in Iraq. The IAI struggles with AQI over the concept of this fight being for Iraq’s Sunnis and not a wider pan-Islamist struggle; the IAI has narrower objectives than AQI. It is a tension between Jihad as muqawama (resistance) and Jihad for a wider pan-Islamist objective.
He refers to support for “resistance” against the U.S. presence in Iraq. He does so when documenting the rise of Muslim Brotherhood political parties and public criticism of an al-Qaida hotel bombing in 2005 in Amman, Jordan.
He writes (page 46):
This has split the Muslim Brotherhood, as there is deep hostility toward the U.S. presence in Iraq, support for muqawama (resistance) and for the Muslim Brotherhood concept of wasatiyah (moderation), and recognition of the need for grassroots representation of the Ahl-al-Sunnah (formal term for Sunni Muslims).
Aboul-Enein also categorizes deadly terrorist raids on Jewish settlements in the 1930s as “resistance,” even though those operations targeted and killed civilians.
He states: (page 138)
No study of Militant Islamist ideologues and the cleavages between Militant Islamist and Islamist groups can be complete without delving into the life, actions, theories, and legacy of Abdullah Azzam. Militant Islamist operatives take the nom de guerre “Abu Azzam” in his honor. A witness to increased Jewish immigration into Palestine in World War II, Azzam was reared on the stories of resistance by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade, which led guerrilla raids against the British and then Jewish settlers.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades is currently the namesake of Hamas’s so-called military wing. Aboul-Enein was referring to deadly attacks carried out by the original Brigade, founded around 1930 by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, a Syrian Muslim cleric who popularized the concept of jihad against Jews during the British civil administration of Palestine.
“Islamist” vs. “Militant Islamist”
The core of Aboul-Enein’s endeavor, and one that may help to elucidate McMaster’s views, is to differentiate between what he terms “Islamist” and “Militant Islamist,” and to show that “militant Islamists” present a distorted, dishonest view of Islam. The thesis might clarify McMaster’s aversion to using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”
In seeking to differentiate between “Islam,” “Islamist,” and “Militant Islamist,” Aboul-Enein comes up with the following basic definitions:
- Islam is “the religious faith of Muslims, involving (as defined in Merriam-Webster’s) belief in Allah as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet.”
- He defines Islamist as “a group or individual advocating Islam as a political as well as a religious system. Chief Islamist objectives include implementing sharia (Islamic) law as the basis of all statutory issues and living as did the earliest adherents to Islam. Many Islamists also assert that implementation of sharia law requires the elimination of all non-Islamic influences in social, political, economic, and military spheres of life.”
- Militant Islamists, Aboul-Enein claims, consist of a “group or individual advocating Islamist ideological goals, principally by violent means. Militant Islamists call for the strictest possible interpretation of both the Quran (Muslim book of divine revelation) and the hadith (the Prophet Muhammad’s actions and deeds). This narrow interpretation opposes the beliefs of Muslims and non-Muslims alike; Militant Islamists stand against Western democracies, Middle Eastern institutions of government, and Islamist political parties that participate nonviolently in elections.”
Defining Jihad
Aboul-Enein frames jihad as a largely peaceful “means to struggle or exert effort,” a term that has been hijacked by “militant Islamists” to wage extremist warfare.
Aboul-Enein posits, for example, that jihad “can be as simple as struggling to get up in the early morning to say your dawn prayers or struggling to learn and improve yourself spiritually or intellectually. It also can mean struggling in the path of God, which does not necessarily mean engaging in warfare but might be making time to teach Islam to children or providing financial support for an Islamic project.”
Jihad, in other words, is a struggle to fulfill one’s obligations to Allah, according to the author.
Islamists, he states, define jihad as a “means to expend every effort fighting against the disbelievers.” However, Aboul-Enein attempts to cloak this violent struggle in the shroud of morality.
He writes (page 34): “Islamists delineate who can fight and when; unlike Militant Islamists, they generally set rules and limits for engaging in fighting in the name of God. … It makes Jihad obligatory upon all Muslims only if the enemy has entered Muslim lands and if the imam calls for Jihad.”
Some Islamists, he relates, “prescribe a protocol of warfare in which a noble Muslim warrior should be free of arrogance and conceit,” and espouse “etiquette” such as “warnings not to kill noncombatant women and children.”
Aboul-Enein describes the seemingly legitimate, moderate jihad as different from the jihadist views advocated by “militant Islamists,” who “use women, children, and the mentally infirm as suicide bombers, who reduce Jihad to fighting or supporting the fighting through financial means, and who make Jihad incumbent upon all Muslims, with no distinction between communal and individual responsibility.”
Islam experts, meanwhile, have pointed out that mainstream Islamic scripture advocates a violent jihad to spread Islam worldwide….
tedh754@gmail.com says
Kiss the koran? He can kiss my fat a*s.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Some kafir giving a Koran a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_kiss and getting his najis saliva on it? Yuck!
IanB says
+1 !!
Gordon Miller says
How this fellow insinuated himself into the Trump administration is beyond comprehension. McMaster appears to be someone Obama would pick for his cabinet and exactly the opposite kind of person who would appeal to Trump.
Yes, McMaster has an impressive background, but that shouldn’t hold any sway in being appointed to this position. I think it would be well if someone on the Trump team explained the rationale for the appointment. It just doesn’t make sense to many of us.
tom parry says
GI’s and the rest of the world should be issued Koran printed toilet paper.
Mark says
Agree
Kevin Dunn says
Agree.
David H says
That’s insulting to good, honest toilet paper!!
John A. Sash says
I have gone to the source of Islam, their holy scripture the Koran, and am reading it as though I am a true believer in Islam. I am only a fourth of the way through it and so far I find it to be the most evil book I have ever read.
Skeptic Sam says
Yes the book is pure evil, and should be shoved into McMaster’s butt.
VRWC member77 says
Now that Bannon is back at Breitbart, I look forward to him being free to hammer home the toxicity of herbert mcMaster in the Trump White house on a frequent basis.
Bindon Blood says
This is classic dhimmi conduct where one humbles oneself to Islam in order to stop them from killing you. The Koran is not sacred to non Muslims, to enforce this on the military is degrading in the extreme to the military and America. It is Islamic blasphemy law. How humiliating for the most powerful army in the world to grovel to these primitive tribesmen!. McMasters should be court martialled and sacked.
D Austin says
More humiliating than being forced to march in red high heels?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/22/whose-bright-idea-is-it-to-march-rotc-cadets-around-in-heels/
Just more crap from the treasonous Obama Administration to cause America’s enemies laugh their a$$ off.
Lydia says
The only thing I will ever do is use the quran for toilet paper.
It sounds like McMaster is eager for a but-kissing ceremony to me!
Bow down low and kiss them earnestly!
The Bible I will kiss, but no other book.
The name of Jesus is etched across my heart, but no other name.
If you behave like a muslim, like a muslim wants you to behave, they have basically won.
You are just doing their conversion work for them.
And you can’t be a Christian and pretend to be ‘something else’ just to save your life.
It doesn’t work that way. Remember Matthew 10; 32-33. He wasn’t kidding.
somehistory says
This is beyond sickening.
These guys, mcmaster and hammond, and the others like them, may as well haul out the photos of them personally kissing their little carpets when they bow all the way to the wild beast. The evidence is there. We don’t actually need photos..
A crime is only a crime if it’s written somewhere by a legal entity. Where is it written that destroying a book…any book…is a crime? And the unholy, filthy, murder encouraging book that the man “kissed” before handing it over as a “gift”….deserves destruction as it comes from satan. When he goes, islum goes and so does the filthy book.
D Austin says
So that means McMaster won’t mind kissing my Bible, apologize for being a traitor, and then moving to the Middle East?
Phil Copson says
“….McMaster also wrote a forward….” – the devil he did ! It’s called a “foreword” – a few words by another writer that come beFORE the author’s text. Simple, eh ?
Other than that, the Aboul-Enien and McMasters love-in seems to be the perfect synthesis of a liar and a charlatan in perfect harmony…..
gravenimage says
Phil, you are correct. But some things are worth righteous anger–others, not so much. A misspelling is not in the same league of wrong as appeasing Islam.
Foreward, Forward
A foreword is an introduction, usually to a book. It’s sometimes confused with forward, meaning “ahead,” “forth.”
http://www.grammarbook.com/homonyms/foreward-forward.asp
John W. says
Considering they are a bunch of “undereducated and disenfranchised people” they are pretty darn effective at what they are doing.
Jack Diamond says
The best strategist here is the “disgraced” soldier, because using the Qur’an for target practice, metaphorically, at least gets to the black heart of the problem, unlike the generals and Aboul-Eneins of the world who are such fantasists and liars, building castles out of “Islamist” sand. The more educated (sic) a Muslim becomes about Islam, the more dangerous to infidels, not the less dangerous. Aboul-Enein neglects to mention that Abdullah Azzam, the father of Al Qaeda, also had a Master’s in Shari’a and a Ph.D in Islamic Jurisprudence from Al-Azhar. Not that Azzam’s narrow “militant Islam” (what does he think Shari’a refers to but the narrow way?) has anything at all to do with “the religious faith of Muslims” (what is that faith again? in whom do Muslims model their behavior?).
PABLO says
Is Trump asleep at the wheel? McMaster is an Islamic Supremacism enabler, get rid of this guy.
marina says
“Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies,”
How stupid is that. Why would anybody living in the 21st century kiss a 7th century war and hate manual and have a ceremony to go along with it. The only ceremony koran deserves is “tear the pages of the Koran and burn it ” ceremony.
gungadin says
Or using it to wipe one’s arse…..
Gary says
God warned us long before the Quran was ever written to steer clear of false teachings…..
“But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.”
(2 Peter 2:1-3)
moeped says
mcmasster must be as deep state as it gets. I bet he’s too dangerous to remove. Instead, Trump should fire everyone around him and put in Patriots with the correct agenda.
Barry says
I have something McMaster can kiss, and it ain’t a quran.
WorkingClassPost says
I’m starting to get it.
The whole stupid mess we’re in, is because most people who seek power and influence, are just dumbf+#&KS masquerading as intelligent beings.
Shooting korans should be an Olympic sport.
D Austin says
Considering many in the crowd are practicing “open carry”, it’s amazing no one has started shooting yet.
jewdog says
The ill-informed tend to project their own thoughts and feelings onto others. McMaster commits the usual fallacy in thinking that all people will respond positively to the Golden Rule. Islam has a Golden Rule, but only for other Muslims – everyone else pays retail.
Someone like Walid Phares would never make this mistake, but Trump somehow thinks military rank equates with intellectual prowess.
moeped says
I was hoping Walid would be part of Trump’s Government. He knows his stuff.
robm says
If he said the, he is one nescient booger
Benedict says
Before you show respect and veneration for a book you’d better decide if the book betrays respect for its readers. The mediocracy of this plagiary called the Qu’ran and its barbarism ought to be an embarrassment to anyone who can read. By kissing it you only reveal your own stupidity, profane yourself and incur the secret contempt of Muslims, who easily discern the sycophancy and pretense of infidels.
Kepha says
Indeed. While I’ve read the Qur’an only in English, the agreement between Daoud, Yusef Ali, and Pickthall is enough to let me see that they were all working from the same original; so I won’t fall for the dodge that you can’t understand the Qur’an without knowing Arabic. Qur’an translators, like Bible translators (and tech and business and literary translators, if they’re worth their salt) seem to have done their job.
Nothing disgusts me more than the arrogant Westerners who deem themselves to intelligent to take the Bible seriously reverently calling Muhammad “the Prophet”. If the Qur’an is indeed his work, he had the spiritual discernment of an unregenerate seven-year-old. He is impressed with fragments of narrative, obsessed with the Day of Judgment, and mixes these with more fragments of Midrash (such as young Abram put in a furnace by Nimrod for breaking Terah’s idols) and early Christian apocrypha (such as Jesus speaking from the cradle), plus even more Arab tribal tradition. Hence, I wouldn’t even call the Qur’an plagiary. Mediocre, yes; but just too garbled to be plagiarism.
I am no fan of burning the thing. I won’t even burn _Min Kampf_ and Mao’s Little Red Book, even if I have German Jewish and Taiwanese connections. But to kiss the Qur’an is ridiculous.
Wellington says
Seconded, Kepha. The Koran can’t even get the Christian Trinity correct, In Sura 5 it refers to the Trinity as the Father, Mother (Mary of course) and Son. Aside from its many disturbing passages calling for war to be made upon unbelievers “until all religion is with Allah” (Sura 8:39) and the sheer hatred for non-believers found on almost every page of this wretched excuse of a holy book (e.g., Sura 98:6), it is mind-numbing in its repetitiveness and devoid of an overarching chronological narrative. I forced myself to read all 114 Suras and it was one of the most tedious reads I have ever had to endure. How anyone can think it is the word of the deity, word for word, is beyond me. If it is, then this universe has one piss-poor excuse for a deity, which I think so unlikely that for all intents and purposes it can be said to be impossible. And thus the Koran is a made-up work, replete with those silly abrogations, and only suckers could accept it as something stemming from a divine source.
Hope you and family are doing well. Take care.
Kepha says
It was Carlyle who said that only a stern sense of duty could get him to read the Qur’an in its entirety. I have read it in translation and agree.
I’ve had a harder read, though. Once, in Taiwan, I picked up an anthology of a few Mahayana sutras from a used book stall, thinking I’d give my Classical Chinese a workout. Unfortunately, the intermixing of Sanskrit terms transliterated into Chinese, plus the rust that had accumulated on my Classical Chinese, made it hard to figure where the Chinese phraseology ended and the transliterated Sanskrit began, so I gave up (I also had a lot of English lessons to prepare, and a new family to solidify and support).
I’m actually not doing well. I was doing a read of the Qur’an and trying to make some comparisons with the Biblical texts to which it alludes, and lost the notes. I was even noting from websites whether certain Suras were Makani or Madani.
But, thanks for your concern, Wellington.
Benedict says
Appreciate your comment, Kepha.
The late Christopher Hitchens had some interesting things to say about the Qu’ran, e.g. : https://youtu.be/pveGeGjyMZM
mgoldberg says
More idiocy prescribed that only causes others to rage inside.
Look, I’m a jew. If you happen to knock over a book, a copy of the Torah, it’s polite to dust it off a bit and put it back on the shelf or wherever you knocked it off, onto the floor. But If your not Jewish you wouldn’t be expected to kiss it. Even if jewish, there’s no crime in not kissing it. The whole point of religious observance, in the jewish sense, has to do with learning, studying, following on actions that are constructive, decreasing actions destructive, etc etc
For muslims to think they have THE best book- and yet, outsiders may not examine it, nor comment upon it, and…. neither can muslims, if they have critical things to say.
Now… for politicians, and military men to posture about kissing a qu’ran is preposterous. He should be called out on this at a news conference.
The idea that someone needs to have their book kissed is itself preposterous. When men and women have had their heads cut off, blown off, and the screams of allahu yabadaba doo, thrown up like dog vomit at the thousands of jihad attacks, hardly merits bowing and prostrating too. Rather a polite query…
” I beg your pardo sir, but… have you lost your mind” might actually be more appropriate.
And you can make book on that.
Kay says
+1
Minutes1234 says
Well said.
David Pimentel says
Most of us retaining a semblance of sanity are too tired of this stuff to be polite.
Kepha says
Get it. I hold the Torah (along with Nevi’im and Kethuvim) in highest regard, too. But I do not kiss the Old and New Testaments when I read them (I am a Christian).
mgoldberg says
This whole idea that a text must be honored, but others texts not only shouldn’t but are disallowed in muslim countries, or that symbols of other religions need to be covered lest they ‘offend’ muslims is preposterous. McMaster should be asked this bluntly and the effect on military policy.
moeped says
+1
somehistory says
When what’s-his-face spoke at the University…it was one that was originally founded by people who believed in Jesus Christ as Savior…anything related to Jesus was covered up. In this country. And he claimed to be Christian.
As Mr. Spencer has written time and again, moslums must be appeased in their countries by everyone and moslums must be appeased in non-moslum countries too. Their way always supersedes all others, their feelings always come first and others must bow. (Mr. Spencer uses different words).
James says
It gets worse. The Christian Bible – including but not confined to the part Judaism acknkwledges as sacred – is regarded as OK for uses lavatory paper by Muslims. One can only guess how furious Muslims would be if the Koran were treated like that. Yet that is the kind of respect they show for books *which the Koran itself* speaks respectfully of.
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Fatwa:_It_is_Permissible_to_Use_the_%22Torah_and_the_New_Testament…_for_Anal_Cleansing_after_Defecation%22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCb0NYxzMKU – go to the last 20 seconds, and turn on the subtitles
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/09/defecation-torah-new-testament
The revoltingness of these people knows no bounds.
James says
That first link again:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Fatwa:_It_is_Permissible_to_Use_the_%22Torah_and_the_New_Testament…_for_Anal_Cleansing_after_Defecation%22
somehistory says
Recalling several years ago, moslums took over a church in Israel and used the ancient copies of the Bible as toilet paper. Copies that could not be *replaced* as a new Bible off the shelf might be.
They are demonic, children of the devil. There is no limit to the evil depths they explore, in part, to insult those who respect and even love the Bible.
Peacemaker says
Kissing ass and kissing Quran are no different.
Terry Gain says
+1
Wellington says
Prediction: McMaster will never learn. He’s an obsequious, obedient dhimmi for life. But Holy Hell, he’s America’s National Security Adviser and if you criticize him John McCain will compare you to a Neo-Nazi.
Deep State? You betcha’. Deep Shit too. (I think the two are related.)
gravenimage says
H.R. McMaster endorsed book telling US military to kiss Qur’an
…………………….
McMaster can kiss my *ss.
Wellington says
Succinct and eloquent, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington. I am seldom so crude, but this idiocy seemed to call for it.
IanB says
Your use of such language is surely justified in this context gravenimage.
The effectiveness of such language is inversely proportional to the frequency of its use.
From you, therefore, it has maximum effect.
Kepha says
Nod to you and Wellington.
I groan for those who are charged with protecting us. Seriously. They have a hard enough time as it is.
And as for SomeHistory’s comment, I also recall the Abominable O (a child at best and excretion at worst, depending on which tone you use when speaking my wife’s native dialect).
stan lee says
“It makes jihad obligatory only if the enemy has entered Muslim lands and if the imam calls for jihad.”
That is known as “the weasel clause’, to any others than Muslims, because the concept is a trigger to jihad. We have not seen Islam back-off of a territory,but instead “acquire it.” With his (McMaster’s) understanding, Israel is “odd-man out.” That’s in conflict with President Trump’s rationalization, and will pose many problems ahead for us. It also conflicts this American too.
Wherever Islam has penetrated, even for the shortest time, has been considered by Islam to be “Muslim lands.” They, Muslims can play with the English language all they want, in order to create confusion, but for them to believe that Christendom is confused by the Muslim concept of what belongs to Islam is purposely meant to contradict what they think we in the west, would believe.
Yet, they continue to battle the Israelis with their jihadis, killing in order to terrify and choosing the softest civilian targets to do so. They don’t attempt what could be construed as strategic, they just make a blanket claim of Israel from “river to sea,” meaning the entire land of Israel. and genocide of its people. It is of no significance to them whether Israel and Judea were Jewish states before Islam ever existed. Therefore, it must be that Islam makes territorial claims if Islam ever was an occupying power at any time. The fact that much of the mid-east was under the conquest of the Turkish Empire, and that the empire is Islamic, gives all Muslims the belief that such lands belong to Islam, just as Islam claims at least half of Spain, and territories in the Balkans. And still, they seek to conquer Germany, France, UK, wherever they land in Europe.
I don’t understand why Gen. McMaster’s beliefs are pro-Islam despite the fact he is considered to have a fine armored warfare record. But also is an apologist for Islam. Plus, perhaps too much influence as a staff member for the President. When he was “turned”, who knows?
That fact remains that his present political position can sour many good and Conservative Americans for his obvious favoritism to Islam, especially between Islam and U.S. ally, Israel. But Israel is not the entire contention, Islam obviously believes it can be far more influential to the U.S.A. than it is, and McMaster could be anchoring Islam’s efforts to spread Islam in the U.S.A. and its military.
It’s hard to believe how he’s disposed to Islam, but by his own words and deeds it must be true.
marblenecltr says
McMaster controls information and association with people for Commander-in-Chief Trump? Is McMaster greatly lacking in knowledge of Islam, or, even worse, does he understand it reasonably well? We have the possibility of great disaster or immense disaster ahead if changes in staff are not made. Is this Making America Great Again or destroying America to make the Globalists great?
D Austin says
Can’t wait to see how McMaster down plays this one…
Petition calling on White House to recognize Antifa as terrorists has 90k+ signatures
https://www.rt.com/usa/400272-petition-us-antifa-terrorist-trump/
The White House is obliged to review the initiative if it reaches the benchmark of 100,000 signees by September 16 – within the 30 day period.
Heidi says
D Austin, I might have some good news for you. This is what Israel News reports today.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234261
Daniel Triplett says
Yes, in Charlottesville, it could have just as easily been an Antifa who drove a car into a crowd. Antifa/BLM has demonstrated a penchant for violence in the dozens of riots they’ve waged, especially since last November.
Then the conversation would be much different now. As it is, there’s wholesale condemnation of everyone who voted for Trump, along with a metastasizing mob bent on sanitizing American history.
rubiconcrest says
Did we show Nazi’s respect? Were we worried whether they liked us or not? McMaster is not a leader because he is not informed. He is not a leader because he believes by doubling down on failed policies we can have success. Get rid of this coach Mr. President. The team is very capable but cannot win with the same old strategy. I don’t want any US soldier kissing the Koran.
More Ham Ed says
McBasterd doesn’t understand that the unholy ko ‘ran teaches ONE-WAY “respect” i.e. one-way submission.
31606 deadly documented ISLAMIC terror attacks since 9/11.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Ren says
Ignorance is the worst enemy. Let’s kiss the quran, a book invented by Muhammad a pedophile, a thief and a murderer. Let’s worship the thug.
balam says
A Muslim would never advise to kiss the Bible.
Ren says
Muslims prefer Muhammad to Jesus and that is why they are doomed.
J_not_a says
Kiss a book that openly and repeatedly calls for your torture and death. What kind of a demented masochist would you have to be to stoop to that? Smdh
Debi Brand says
Infuriating.
What’s more, all who empower this man are guilty of the same alliance with and subservience to Islam that MCMaster’s actions reveal he has and practices.
Trump, you either stand up and shame this fool for his subservience to Islam, rid him from your administration for his promoting of lies concerning Islam and for his promoting obsequence to it, or your absence of such, Sir, affirms, you, Sir, share McMaster’s regard and subservience to Islam and to those who live by its guidance.
Lacking that called for action, Sir, affirms, you too, Sir, like a damn fool, also promote obsequiousness to Islam and to those who live guided by it.
You Sir, share, in the effort to deceive the gullible concerning facts and reality on Islam and those who live guided by it.
Infuriating …
Heidi says
This is what the Conservative Review says about McMaster
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/is-hr-mcmaster-talking-trash-about-pres-trump-behind-his-back
and this was the reported in theatlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/hr-mcmaster-cleans-house-at-the-national-security-council/535767/
Looks like he is replacing all People who do not bow to him
Look at the video embedded. Since I am no US citizen I have not watched it
https://pro.healthyalliance.net/p/AAH_obamasrevenge_0417/LAAHT6BU/?utm_source=MailGet&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Obama%20Agent%20Caught%20INSIDE%20the%20White%20House%3F&utm_campaign=This%20leaked%20video&h=true
Debi Brand says
“Looks like he is replacing all People who do not bow to him”
Who empowered him to do such? In other words, who gave him his present damn job?
Trump did.
Heidi says
Debi, Trump should remove him from his position immediately. I do not believe that McMasters is uninformed, I believe that he knows damn well what he is doing. One has to stop people like him in Government positions with far reaching responsibilities for the country and the citizens.. You want to avoid by all means to become like Germany and other European countries where the left has infested peoples’ minds and are well on the road to install an Orwellian world, far worse than Orwell could have ever imagined. I certanly hope that Trump will wake up to see that he hired the enemy to avoid confrontation with his opposers who will not stop of using methods of suppression, threats, slandering, burning cars, destroying offices and hurting people to bestow their beliefs onto people.
Debi Brand says
“One has to stop people like him in Government positions with far reaching responsibilities for the country and the citizens.”
Amen, Heidi, my Friend, and that is for dang sure.
Across the board there in your above post.
balam says
I admire your honest remarks. May God bless you!!!
Debi Brand says
Thank you, my Friend, balam.
‘ appreciate it.
dl
Miriam Feldstein Case says
Here we go again. I was sickened by Pres. Obama’s apology tour and I really thought things would be so much different under Pres. Trump. I guess I was totally naive.
balam says
Time has come for the President either to FIRE MCMASTER immediately or he should resign as POTS .Period
Debi Brand says
Indeed, however, that will not happen–promotion of Islam will proceed, sails filled for robust sailing by the efforts and by those who empower, as stated, the McMasters of our world.
Daniel Triplett says
Obama put that third Star on his shoulder, so this doesn’t surprise me.
He’s an Obama holdover–part of “the swamp.”
WPM says
He should be flushed out ,all Obama holdovers are like cancer cells they must be removed .
D Austin says
Lets not forget that Obama purged about 200 Colonel and flag rank (general/admiral) officers from the military that didn’t agree with him.
Heidi says
Daniel, if you want to dry up the swamp, you can not ask the frogs. Maybe someone should brong that to Trump’s Attention.
Daniel Triplett says
Agreed Heidi.
I believe Trump knows of the growing chorus of dissent against McMaster, but another voice certainly helps.
Here’s a quick way to attempt to be heard by him:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
D Austin says
Wouldn’t you tread softly if you were surrounded by traitors, and one or more whispered, “It’s a shame what happened to JFK when he was in your position!”
James Stamulis says
It will never work for Islam has no respect whatsoever for the west! With me the feeling is MUTUAL!!!
FYI says
Making friends with islamic supremacists is foolish.
It is like poking a hungry bear with a stick and then imagining that the bear will roll over on his side and playfully want you to tickle his tummy when in reality that hungry bear will want to rip your head off and shove it down your neck.Don’t be stupid!
Besides,the concept of peace and non-violent response tends to be missing in the followers of the religion of peace.
FYI says
If you kiss the koran please remember this:-
allah curses the Jews and the Christians(k9:30)
If you are Jewish.. then you surely know about the insults to the Jews in the koran.
If you are Christian then you must know that apart from cursing Christians,allah also denies Christ.
That is not a book you should kiss!!
Kepha says
Believe me, I will not kiss the Qur’an. The Pope did not represent this Christian when he kissed the thing.
Then again, I’m a benighted Fundamentalist Christian.
David says
Notice how McMaster and Brennan have the same cringe. It’s like they both are on the same team. Which is team “traitor”.
SAM says
OH MY GOD! BIG VICTORY FOR ISLAM AGAIN. GIVE IT TO ISLAM. IT KNOWS HOW TO WORK STUPID AMERICA HATING LIBERALS AND CLUELESS REPUBLICANS ALSO. GOD WE NEED YOU NOW!!
Lorensacho says
Please tell us the real reason you are on the smash McMaster bandwagon. it surely can’t be because he endorsed a book. That kind of pettiness doesn’t sound like you. Her’s my guess. You are after McMaster because he threw Bannon off the NSC and you are inspired by Bannon’s animosity.
D Austin says
The reason is more likely due to the fact that liberals like McMasters exhibit irrational mental illness…
The sun is racist! Two major liberal papers agree the ‘Deplorable Solar Eclipse of 2017’ cuts out black people
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/08/21/sun-racist-two-major-liberal-papers-agree-deplorable-solar-eclipse-2017-cuts-black-people-527867
Lorensacho says
People unlike you are mentally ill. Wow.
D Austin says
McMaster says kiss that Quran! The Sun is Racist! Liberal response: “Well, what’s wrong with saying that?” BIG WOW back at you! Overcoming your denial is the first step to recovery…
Daniel Triplett says
Listen to McMaster speak for himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUz-ZggSFak&list=WL&index=5&t=144s
Daniel Triplett says
Well, I don’t know why the link doesn’t work. I just watched it again on YouTube 30 seconds ago.
Do a YouTube search for this term:
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster at NGAUS 2014
His foolishness comes straight from his mouth.
Heidi says
Daniel, they are fast with deleting things they want to Keep secret and do not you to listen or watch them. It is like it is in Germany now. Facebook deleted ten thaousands of accounts before the General election next month because of “fake news”. That is not the reeal reason, the real reason is that the Government instated an Orwellian Minister of Truth and his Stasi helper. So anything said against their “truth” is fake news. But only the lie needs the support of the state power, the truth stands by itself.
Forearmed says
Well, it’s just about all be said here, but I will add this; When an entity declares war upon you, you don’t pretend that they aren’t unless you know for a fact that they are just bluffing. WE ALREADY KNOW ISLAMIST ARE NOT BLUFFING YOU IGNORANT FOOL.
McMaster is an idiot if he thinks our military should bow to islam. Not in my lifetime you idiot. As far as I am concerned the government should be issuing toe-tags for muslims like deer tags for hunters, or at least put a bounty on the heads of jihadist who profess they want to kill White America.
As far as I am concerned islamist have declared war and should be taken out by whatever means necessary. They have to understand that when you declare war against a much large enemy you had better be able to back up Bluff.
paul says
Anyone still think McBastard isn’t a traitorous muslim?
Phil Copson says
“….Anyone still think McBastard isn’t a traitorous muslim? ”
Hillary Rodham McMuslim, you say ?
John A. Marre says
“Desecrate” is based on the word “sacred.” It means to profane something which is sacred. I suggest a different word than “desecrate” since it is obviously not the right word.
PKG says
OMG -no self respecting person could possibly stoop so low- literally as well as metaphorically!!!
Mega ****UGH***** ****CRINGE*****
Just when I thought I’d heard everything- !!!!
Richard says
Back to the dark Ages in 2025 ….
Frank Thiboutot says
To: The smartest people in the room who believe that tolerance at the expense of
the truth isn’t total stupidity.
What ideology turned beautiful, innocent German newborns into Nazis who were
responsible for up to 85 million deaths during WWII?
What ideology turned beautiful, innocent Russian or Chinese newborns into
communists which lead to 94 million deaths in the 20th century?
What ideology turned beautiful, innocent Middle Eastern, No. African or Arabian
newborns into Islamic jihadists responsible for 270 million deaths for 1400
years? (Hint: It wasn’t Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism or
even wiccanism)
*Combating these attacks from a counter-terrorism or counter insurgency position
is helping but not working.
*Candlelight vigils, turning out the lights on the Eiffel Tower and teddy bears
are not working.
*Telling us that Islam is a religion of peace is not working.
*Qualifying Islam as radical, extremist, hijacked, militant or fundamentalist is
not working.
*Appealing to “moderate” Muslims is not working.
*Insisting mosques are places of worship just like churches & synagogues rather than seditious jihadist factories is not working.
*Insisting that “No-Go Zones” or Sharia courts do not exist is not working
*Allowing CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front group access to the highest
levels in our institutions is not working.
*Talking tough AFTER a jihadist attack is not working.
*Blaming the only democratic country in the Middle East and legitimizing the
Palestinian cause is not working.
*Throwing out the welcome mat by Europe and the U.S. to Muslim refugees is not
working.
*Using the excuse that all religions have had violence in their history is not
working.
*Claiming that there is a moral equivalence among all the major religions is not
working.
*Not wanting to offend the perpetually offended Ummah (Muslim community) is not
working.
*Believing the ACLU that FGM is not taking place in the U.S. is not working.
*Continuing to purchase OPEC oil to finance the purchase of weapons is not
working.
*Regurgitating the “Lone Wolf” mantra that terrorists are being radicalized on
the internet as a deflection is not working.
*Vilifying those who are trying to warn the West from committing cultural
suicide is not working.
*Destroying ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, al-Shabab, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and so on
will not work in the long term to solve this problem.
So, what is the answer?
It’s simple. Drilling down to the root causes and motivations behind Islamic
jihad are what’s necessary. 2500+ years ago, Sun Tzu believed in knowing the
enemy which means understanding in detail his political philosophy.
Why aren’t there nationally televised public forums on Sharia law vs. our U.S.
Constitution? Why do politicians, academicians and the media continue to
apologize and enable Islamic jihad? What are they hiding? Are they being bought
off?
We must unravel Islamic doctrine (the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith), expose it
and it would implode on itself if our pathetic “leaders” actually had the
backbone to do it. If you think that we’re going to accept these attacks as the
new normal or that “terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city”, then
you’re totally misjudging the American people. Peeling back the onion on this threat is long overdue.
Daniel Triplett says
Great post.
Further, our understanding alone of Nazism and Shintoism didn’t eliminate Nazism and Shintoism. Kinetic force did.
Kinetic force is required now too, in addition to everyone understanding the threat.
Tom says
Spot-on Frank.
After 9/11 I started studying this ideology in earnest. After 40 books, 4 Qurans, some of Hadith, and Reliance of the Traveler (Sharia) I know we are in big trouble when our military doesn’t understand it. Can’t someone get to the ‘McMasters’ in the administration and make them see reality?
For anyone about to buy some Islamic texts to learn about Islam, in my opinion, start with Reliance of the Traveler. It is easier to read than Quran and numerous volumes of Hadith. In one volume you have everything easily arranged along with a complete index. Whether it’s Jihad, prayer, bathing, lying, women’s clothing or whatever….it’s all easily found. Makes it very easy to prove your point to friends and neighbors.
Been There Got the Tee Shirt says
Those who don’t know history will be doomed….
But I don’t want these uneducated “leaders” to take us with them. McMaster has a credibility gap you could drive a jihad bomber with a rented explosive-laden van through…and he is our president’s adviser? What a mistake. History will not be kind to this so-called leadership.
Daniel says
With leaders like these guys who needs enemies?
Henner720 says
He circles high society, lost in it. Arabs , found, i think much to there suprise how, islam work for them like a magic dooropener. Although there own contries are doomed in relentless misery and backwardness, the-ONE THING WORKING – the islam asset, the ideologic arab culture world conquest through islam, stelth and deceptive, but working magic. Why not oppose it.?.that this man can not oppose it, is telling on the irritation its spread causes. If not id’et the irritation will lead to europeans again starting death factories for muslims. WE DONT WANT THAT. It easy. I say after me. I prefer the eu , usa lifestyle, i do not want to be arab or introduce here any arab lifestyle, or to be subjected to one. Now we are honest. See it was not bad, nobody got hurt.it is not racist. All fine.
Jacqueleen says
McMasters is an anti-American….either that or he is plain old nuts! Islam is not a religion. It is a cult…It’s origin is not from God but rather from man. Allah is Satan , the master deceiver and those who follow the Islam cult are Satan’s army…..Did McMasters get re-assigned?
bobm says
game over trumpeteers.. Ubin HAD..
Eric says
Some of the ideas Trump campaigned on like nonintervention are good ideas. Trump is very bad at picking advisers who support what Trump campaigned on. Trump has abandoned his base.
We the USA citizens must find other platforms to implement the policies that help us. Policies like nonintervention, economic development and controlling our borders.
Eric
Graminator says
This makes me sick
ploome says
Aboul-Enein posits, for example, that jihad “can be as simple as struggling to get up in the early morning to say your dawn prayers or struggling to learn and improve yourself spiritually or intellectually. It also can mean struggling in the path of God, which does not necessarily mean engaging in warfare but might be making time to teach Islam to children or providing financial support for an Islamic project.”
like constipation…another struggle
I wonder about leftists says
It is so disgusting, they get funded, they are in the military, in the government, police, schools and they pray in small mosques on the compound.
This all has become so outrageous and so sly and so sick. The Europeans are crazy, but the Americans are as crazy.
Most americans don’t know what is happening in and outside the USA
We never asked for war, but that everybody has te keep to the law and constitution and people to behave.
and not to kill, threaten us, beheading, flogging, burning torturing, burning raping, terrorise us, forcing people to convert, put people in cages burn them or drown them, terrorising people that we alle have to live under Sharia, profiting from the health care, playing the victim, destroying things, calling us kaffirs, threatening to kill the Jews and the Christians, taking away our freedom of speech, trying to poison
Robert Spencer, etc.
And to top it of, for the military, don’t say anything offensive and kiss the koran , don’t let the b
Koran fall out of your hands, God knows what will happen than.
How people can absorb this is a total guess, enigma for me.
But muslims will meet themselves and they will be very surprised, (not happily). And so will all people,
it will take a while but…. for sure.
You will never conquer the world, nobody will. Nobody is superior to anybody, the trouble is only that what you know in your conscious mind, you can not think above the level you are, because you don’t know how and if the level is just at the base and you can’t think above that level, you are really making big trouble, but then remember, luckily there are people with a higher consciousness, who are looking out for all people on this world and not only for the individuals or if somebody has a different religion or ideology.And people with a low consciousness are dangerous as they can not look at things right.