This ridiculous article in UCLA’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, reveals the mindset of those who believe that “Islamophobia” is a bigger threat than jihad terror. Does the U.S. face a jihad threat today? Obviously it does. Do many of these jihadis wear traditional Islamic garb and scream “Allahu akbar” when attacking? Once again, that is patently obvious. But a ROTC exercise that features the enemies of U.S. soldiers wearing Islamic garb and screaming “Allahu akbar” is “Islamophobic” and somehow endeavors to “marginalize 3.5 million Americans.”
The article’s author, Omar Said, even claims that “the university cannot expect these students on campus to feel safe or comfortable knowing that all it takes for them to be labeled an enemy combatant is to say an often used phrase or wear an outfit common in their country.”
Really? And when exactly did ROTC or anyone else claim that everyone who wears traditional Islamic garb or says “Allahu akbar” is an “enemy combatant”? Never. Said’s article is of a piece with successful efforts by Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S. to get all mention of Islam and jihad removed from counter-terror training: because not all Muslims are jihad terrorists, it is somehow wrong for the U.S. military to prepare to counter those who are. The end result will be that the U.S. is ignorant and unprepared in the face of the advancing jihad. Is that what Omar Said wants?
“Omar Said: Use of stereotyped Muslim attire in ROTC training perpetuates Islamophobia,” by Omar Said, Daily Bruin, May 10, 2018:
It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once.
But the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.
During a training held by UCLA’s and California State University, Fresno’s Army ROTCs in early April, students acting as enemy soldiers in combat simulations wore clothing commonly worn by civilians in Arab countries. The clothing included kufiyyas and iqals, which are better known as the flowing scarves Arab men traditionally wear on their heads.
At one point in the training, Maj. Tyrone Vargas, the executive officer of the battalion and a UCLA assistant adjunct professor of military science, held a rocket-propelled grenade above his head and said “Allahu akbar” in the presence of cadets. Vargas later told The Bruin that this had been a way to teach cadets how they would need to decide whether people approach them as combatants or in celebration.
“Allahu akbar,” which means “God is greater,” is a large part of daily Muslim worship and life, including the formal prayer done five times a day. Imam Omar Suleiman, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University, wrote in a CNN article that the phrase is used to indicate gratitude “when God bestows something upon you that you would have been incapable of attaining were it not for divine benevolence.” Notwithstanding, “Allahu akbar” has become a common element in Islamophobic jokes and stereotypes about terrorists.
ROTC’s cavalier attitude about Islamic ideas is damaging to Muslim Americans, and to the Muslim and Southwest Asian and North African students studying at UCLA. The university cannot expect these students on campus to feel safe or comfortable knowing that all it takes for them to be labeled an enemy combatant is to say an often used phrase or wear an outfit common in their country.
Training future military combatants is one thing; perpetuating discriminatory stereotypes is another. ROTC can certainly try to make amends for its actions during the spring cadet training, but the fact remains that it has only played into the continuing narrative of Islamophobia in the United States.
“This training negligently promotes an image of Muslims as dangerous,” said Marwa Rifahie, a civil rights attorney for the Los Angeles chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, in a statement released by CAIR-LA….
Jedothek says
People have a hard time thinking about responsibility. If ROTC realistically holds exercises in which the bad guys wear Muslim garb, is that the fault of ROTC? No, it is the fault of the Muslim insurgents who have created the combat situations that ROTC is replicating ( notice I am not saying “ it is the fault of the Muslims.”) .
Terry Gain says
Jedothek
Then you are being evasive. I congratulate you for your semi-political correctness. The only problem with Muslims is they practice Islam, which is beyond argument easily the most evil and dangerous ideology in the history of the world.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. If Muslims don’t want to be offended, they need to stop being Muslims. There’s really no other solution.
Richard Burns says
The most insidious threat to the western world today! Europe acquiescing to Islamic terrorism because of political cowardice and fear of confrontation. They would rather see their citizens subjected to a barbaric culture, much easier to placate savages than to face them. Perhaps too late for the west to grow a spine.
Simo Hayha says
“……. it takes for them to be labeled an enemy combatant is to say an often used phrase or wear an outfit common in their country.”
Well, DUH! This country is NOT Africa S**tholes, and not any sandy desert or mountain cave dwelling. This IS The United States! If you retards come HERE to get an educated mind, and want to “fit in” then WHY must you ostentatiously show off your NON-American clothing to apparently piss US OFF? It is purposeful Middle-Finger in the air to us. You wouldn’t wear NAZI uniforms with Swasticas on them, now would you? Same thing: an IN-YOUR-FACE reminder of brutality and bloody murderers! So, GFY!
J D S says
Muslims like this guy are infiltrating colleges all over the U.S., both as students and professors with one main item on their agenda and that’s to disrupt any and everything they can in the American way of life and try to install sharia in place of our constitution and nothing they can say or do will make what they are planning any different …It is factual and the powers that be had better soon, very soon, take notice or else they and we will be swallowed up in this cess pool of abomination.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Lu says
Subversion of the American Republic continues unabated, aided by enemies foreign and domestic and led by academia. Subversion will eventually end up in submission.
Debra Jamieson says
Section8 usc 1324 ENFORCE THIS LAW….Muslims want to fight go back to their own dam country
elee says
Is anyone taking offense at the 3.5 million Americans whose scripture calls for another Holocaust? Didn’t think so.
Terry Gain says
elee
Some of us condemn this evil ideology called Islam. Some of us actually have the courage to use our real names.
Cicero says
In an inner city residential street in London UK two of the few remaking ZJewish families had bricks thrown through their windows recently. One of them was an 85 year old woman who lives on her own. It is a very mixed street but over the last fifteen years since 9/11 certain elements are quietly moving in . In fact a huge mosque was built 17 years ago nearby and five years ago a madrasah was opened in a house in the street where the bricks were thrown.
UK is sinking and stinking
gravenimage says
Horrible.
john jansen says
they are a race of people ready to take on the world no matter how , ,because they will never assimilate to our way of life , they belong in asia were there is no rules of law , so send them back to the dessert , were they belong !!!
Buz says
Islam is not a race. It is a sick cult.
gravenimage says
+1
Sam says
The article’s author, Omar Said, even claims that “the university cannot expect these students on campus to feel safe or comfortable knowing that all it takes for them to be labeled an enemy combatant is to say an often used phrase or wear an outfit common in their country.”
We just have to say and do nothing and let Islam take over the USA.
We got to get rid of this evil Islam which is not even a religion and yes we need to get rid of Jihadis too.
jihad3tracker says
****** GOOD NEWS, FRIENDS ! THERE IS A COMMENT SECTION WHICH ACCEPTS A VARIETY OF PATHS FOR POSTING *******
Please take a few minutes to inject some REALITY ABOUT ISLAM & JIHAD. Cite Hadith and Qur’an, statistics for deadly Muzzie attacks, a couple of videos by David Wood or Bill Warner, your fave truth-telling websites and blogs.
jihad3tracker says
I JUST NOW (3 PM EASTERN U.S.) LEFT A LONG COMMENT — mentioning David Wood’s videos Read it soon before it is “moderated” out of existence.
somehistory says
They all claim that they are Americans and that America is “their country.”
However, this guy who is attempting to keep the ROTC from telling the truth, just showed how many holes that claim has.
“wear an outfit common in their country.”
If a bunch of little old ladies, like Ma Barker, carried bombs, stabbed and ran over people, non-involved little old ladies would not say that the authorities were creating littleoldladyphobia if they told the public, or trained their members what to look for and what to do.
If the murderous little old ladies shouted “pickle relish” when attacking, non-involved little old ladies would not worry about serving pickle relish.
moslims know and are aware that the phrase shouted by the murderous raper of children, and by those who hope to be like him, is not a common phrase that means no more than shouting pickle relish.
And they are aware that the terrorists are trying to do what they are trying to do…establish islam wherever and as soon as they can.
Rey Ybarra says
I guess ucla lets useful idiots and stooges write articles appeasing terrorist front groups like cair (council of all islamic radicals) for thier politically correct, sharia based totalitarian theo/political ideologist supporters.
Indiana Tom says
ROTC exercise featuring jihadis “promotes an image of Muslims as dangerous”
Because they are?
Terry Gain says
9/11 was not a one off.
boakai ngombu says
Imam Omar Suleiman, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University, wrote in a CNN article that the phrase is used to indicate gratitude “when God bestows something upon you that you would have been incapable of attaining were it not for divine benevolence.”
the great failure of islam is that the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) cannot ABSOLVE anyone of their sin. the allah god is not greatest.
FORGIVENESS and RECONCILIATION is offered and bestowed upon the penitent sinner by the One Anointed of God – Jesus, who is Savior and Lord and GREATEST. in contrast, the allah god offers only an immoral direction to hate what it hates, but love the fellow slaves; no righteousness there, no hope.
the imam is wrong, as wrong as muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts; lacking compassion) who is the slave (muslim) of the allah god that humanity is to emulate. what a loser.
let the ROTC shoot a pictures of the koran, sira, hadith without fear. this islam is an enemy, not a friend. their attitude should not be construed as “cavalier.”
Terry Gain says
Islam is totalitarian, supremacist, hateful, xenophobic, violent, deceitful, irrational, misogynist, homophobic, backwards beyond belief and its members are world class whiners and propagandists.
Other than that I have no problem with Islam.
Terry Gain says
I apologize. I forgot to point out that Islam is also imperialist. In fact, Islam’s goal of conquering the world is Islam’s pre-eminent characteristic.
mach37 says
Terry, I believe you have covered it well.
gravenimage says
+1
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer, the Idiot terrorists being promoted by evil mithraist christian west headed by evil united states are not jihadis. Now that they are being decimated in syria and Iraq, savage mad devil trump ordered strike on victorious Syrian Forces to get the zionist death squad terrorists regroup to continue with the game for Islam haters like mr spencer to continue with hate propagandas against muslims. we want know when terrorism is finally wiped out, on what is mr spencer going to write?
mach37 says
Mr Spencer has his lifetime work cut out; with the Evil anti-Mithraist “Christians West” continuing to support Jihad, he needs more help.
Norger says
“When terrorism is finally wiped out.” That’s rich. 30,000 + Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 and counting. Not holding my breath on that one Ibrahim. What do you the chances are that Al Azhar will repudiate that Hadith in which your prophet said”I have been made victorious through terror?”
Indiana Tom says
we want know when terrorism is finally wiped out, About the time that Islam is finally wiped out.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Indiana Tom, Filthy mithraist christianity will vanish because it is exposed to be paganic inspired by the satan (holy spirit).
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed himself has affirmed that Muslims have the right to rape, rob, and mass slaughter us if we do not submit to Islam. The idea that he opposes Jihad terror is just ludicrous.
Lydia Church says
What came first?
islam….. or islamophobia???
It’s a no brainer, so all should be able to pass this simple quiz!
Even itm… maybe.
Time will tell.
Terra Nova says
Yes, I would really like to know what Muslims expected when they all came by the millions running to the USA and the European countries, in the beginning before you destroyed, beheaded, raping, robbing, etc.just telling us your were going to destroy the Jews and the Christians. The USA never was planning to conquer your countries, neither did the Europeans. I am really curious about that. What did you expect?
You expected we would be happy with people who could never regulate their own countries and make something out of it for themselves ! And we have to pay more taxes and obey your Sharia?
What did you expect?
And you think we will just let you conquer our countries? You are so mistaken because we won’t let you.
But pls tell us what you wanted.
Infidel says
OF COURSE MUSLIMS are DANGEROUS… Is there any doubt after all these 1400 years of nonstop blood and gore
Ezra says
The sooner we all recognize the truth about the mohammedan religion the safer we will be. If a person professes to be a moslem (or call himself a ‘muslim’) he is a terrorist, either now or potentially. It is the call of the qur’an to destroy any and who oppose the pagan god they name as allah.
This is a spiritual war of good vs evil and to tiptoe around the truth that moslems embrace an evil religio/politico system hellbent on destroying all in its path to world domination is to invite in the cobra.
Wake up and smell the coffee before it is too late.
Politicianophobia says
Ibrahim, the thighing Master, Please make arrangements with someone to let us know about your demise.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
politicianophobia, you and you pagan satan god you Call holy spirit will vanish and casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever. Get prepared for hellfire the moment you die as mithraist christian
gravenimage says
Notice that Ibrahim itace muhammed becomes enraged when called out on his apologia for pedophilia. He has said before that those who oppose Muslims raping children are damned.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ignorant Norger ,the Hadith is not talking about terrorism in the sense of indiscriminate killings of people as terrorists holding perverted interpretation of Islam assume. It is talking about miracle of Islam that whenever non-believers attempt to annihilate muslims, Allah will caste fear in the minds of confronting unbelievers as it happened when pagan meccan forces surrounded muslim forces at battle of uhud, Allah casted fear in their minds and they dispersed. It could happene to truthful Muslims even today where world oppressors unbelievers gang against them.
so, it not a command that muslims shall kill unbelievers indiscriminately to caste fear in their minds.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Ignorant Norger ,the Hadith is not talking about terrorism in the sense of indiscriminate killings of people
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Of course its not indiscriminate–it refers to Muslims terrorizing and slaughtering Infidels who do not submit to Islam.
And no–terrorizing one’s victims is *not* a “miracle”. It is thuggery.
FYI says
Where,oh where would anyone get the idea that islam is based on violence and terrorism?
{How dare anyone suggest that:they must me “islamophobic”.Yeah,that’s it!}
“I have been made victorious through TERROR”
says mo,the al-insan al-kamil(“the perfect man”)
in Bukhari 4:52:220
Straight from the camel’s mouth:and mo would know about terror,being a mass-murderer of Jews
{Abu Dawud 4390}
Then there is..
“Violence is at the heart of islam”
Ayatollah Yazidi
And that cheerful chappie would know wouldn’t he?
AS long as there is mo’s justification for terror in islam,there will be terror.
It’s no wonder hitler admired islam’s vicious,violent,antisemitic cult.
But then maybe he was a feelthy mithrsist inspired by holy santas(spirits) with horrible smells.
Savvy Kafir says
The ROTC should tell CAIR to go piss up a rope.
I long for the day when all infidels will be knowledgeable enough regarding Islam, and bold enough, to begin treating CAIR and their ilk like the enemies they clearly are. There is simply no need to make nice with them. Did the Brits care about the hurt feelings of Nazis in 1940?
SB says
They are,
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR complains that ROTC exercise featuring jihadis “promotes an image of Muslims as dangerous”
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How dare anyone consider Jihad a bad thing? Bad dhimmis…