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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: CAIR Enraged by ROTC Exercise Featuring Jihadis as Enemies

May 21, 2018 2:43 am By Robert Spencer

ROTC’s got a lot of nerve to notice the global jihad. My latest at PJ Media:

A ridiculous article last Thursday in UCLA’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, reveals the mindset of those who believe that “Islamophobia” is a bigger threat than jihad terror, and reveals yet again the insidious agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once,” writes the article’s author, Omar Said, “but the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.”

Who are American troops facing in Afghanistan? Methodists?

Said complained:

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.

It might seem incongruous and wrong for the enemy combatants in the exercise to be dressed as civilians, until one recalls that the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the rest don’t usually march out in full uniform. Also, they often base their activity in civilian areas in order to claim that U.S. strikes hit non-combatants so that they might win points in the ongoing propaganda war.

In any case, the civilian dress was not the only aspect of this exercise that enraged Said. He noted:

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.

Said then goes on to point out that the phrase “Allahu akbar” is “a large part of daily Muslim worship and life,” which has nevertheless “become a common element in Islamophobic jokes and stereotypes about terrorists.”

Now, why would that be?

“Training future military combatants is one thing; perpetuating discriminatory stereotypes is another,” Said fumed. He quoted Marwa Rifahie of CAIR’s Los Angeles chapter: “This training negligently promotes an image of Muslims as dangerous.”

The idea that this is a gratuitous affront is a telling indication of how far the public discourse today has strayed from reality. Some Muslims are dangerous; some aren’t. CAIR’s objective is apparently to attach such a stigma to preparations to counter those who are dangerous that such preparations will be dropped altogether.

But back in the real world, everyone should recognize that CAIR’s statement is as absurd as it is subversive. 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.”

Said even claimed 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, of course, but reality seldom intrudes upon those who wax indignant about “Islamophobia.”…

Read the rest here.

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  1. Ren says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:22 am

    How not to point out to muslims when speaking of jihad? After all, muslims are the ones that perpetuate a doctrine founded by a terrorist Muhammad who incites muslims to do jihad.

    • J D S says

      May 21, 2018 at 12:23 pm

      Islamophobic, racism, bigots, political correctness all these things are part of the problem with islam..because they are using these and one other BIG thing to implement their agenda..That BIG thing is Religious Freedom….Our law in the U.S. concerning religious freedom was never ment to apply to Islam…. AS A FREEDOM…Islam being political and religion in one, would be why the law was established in the first place, Separation of the two, and a BIG plus against Islam is their actual teaching.
      What they teach is pure terrorism along with laws that butt up against everything Christianity stands for,,,The religion that our Constitution was built around…and therein lies the rub…Our elected officials are so AFRAID of even talking about addressing the Freedom of Religion portion of the Constitution as it pertains to Islam….There is nothing in our Constitution that gives Islam the freedom to murder, rape, enslave and do so many other obstructive things that are against every law of God and man.
      Just look at EUROPE…Oh people will say that it can’t happen here..Our Constitution won’t allow it…..well Isn’t Religious Freedom a part of our Constitution…and just look how the Muslims are circumventing it. Oh I do believe God will deal with the Muslims…in time. But in the meantime it’s left up to us to deal with them and their barbaric religion. …..WAKE UP!! The Enemy is at The Gate

    • cjmcd says

      May 22, 2018 at 11:02 am

      muslims love everyone, huh except non-believers. Oh, the word “love” is not found anywhere in the koran. Who said that?

  2. Terra Nova says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:32 am

    Doe CAIR relies how many people are enraged by the behaviour of Islam and CAIR? They don’t have any idea. It still is that people have been made scared by Islam and CAIR and all the other vile organisations,
    otherwise it would be a total different ball game. When people don’t have free speech anymore, are told that their countries will be taken over by Islam, who have promised us all as infidels and Jews to be killed
    or beheaded, who are raped, oppressed, no go zones in their own countries, their children brain washed,
    people robbed, they pray on the streets, they destroy things. They whine as victims. Etc. etc.

    Their “religion” is so violent and they want to conquer the world and we should be happy about that, to live in a oppressed country with people (so called police):
    How to think
    how to and what to belief
    how to dress
    how to eat and what to eat
    how to behead
    how to flog
    how to crucify people,
    how to stone them
    how to order them around
    how to live under Sharia
    forced to get married at a very young age
    forced marriages.

    You CAIR are out of your minds. And we all on top have to pay. By whom are you paid people of CAIR?
    Right ! And you Universities of the USA and all Western countries should be ashamed of yourselves.
    And we are Democracies, we never were, and we will never be.
    You never get away with this, don’t count on it !!!

    • Ren says

      May 21, 2018 at 3:40 am

      Does CAIR know how many people are enraged by the behaviour of Islam and CAIR?

      They don’t. Muslims don’t have any insight.

  3. Bobby Ray says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:36 am

    Excerpts from the Bukhari Sharif (kept by almost every Muslims at home, next to the Q’uran)
    – Guillaume – Page 673 **** (Very peaceful TEACHING indeed)

    A Muslim man named Amr Umayya, who was sent out by Muhammad TO MURDER MUHAMMAD’S ENEMY ABU SUFYAN, However, their assassination attempt failed. As he returned home, he met a one-eyed shepherd. The shepherd and the Muslim man both identified themselves as members of the same Arab clan. Prior to going asleep, THE SHEPHERD SAID THAT HE WOULD NEVER BECOME A MUSLIM.

    Umayya waited for the shepherd to fall asleep, and thereafter: “as soon as the badu was asleep and snoring I got up and killed him IN A MORE HORRIBLE WAY than any man has been killed. I PUT THE END OF MY BOW IN HIS SOUND EYE, THEN I BORE DOWN ON IT UNTIL I FORCED IT OUT AT THE BACK OF HIS NECK.”

    Umayya returned and spoke with Muhammad. He relates…….”He [Muhammad] asked my news and when
    I told him what had happened HE BLESSED ME”.

  4. DogOnPorch says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:51 am

    The ROTC should clearly mark their enemy troops as “CAIR members” to avoid confusion.

  5. Phil Copson says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:56 am

    “….perpetuating discriminatory stereotypes is another,” Said fumed….”
    —————————————————————————————–

    Says the man whose belief system is based upon the idea that all non-muslims must be fought against and subjugated…..

  6. Notmoron says

    May 21, 2018 at 4:43 am

    Who cares what ever CAIR say, they’re just a bunch of terrorists in Democrats clothing

  7. Jaladhi says

    May 21, 2018 at 6:39 am

    If jihadis are not the enemies of mankind then who is the enemy – the so called “peaceful Muslims”? All this fake rage by Muslims is only points to all of them being jihadis and nothing else!!

    • Jaladhi says

      May 21, 2018 at 6:42 am

      Correction:

      If jihadis are not the enemies of mankind then who is the enemy – the so called “peaceful Muslims”? All this fake rage by Muslims only points to all of them being jihadis and nothing else!!

      • boakai ngombu says

        May 21, 2018 at 7:18 am

        and they should remain marginalized. also, true jihadis are no longer Americans, even if they remain 3.5 million (+ or -) and democrat.

  8. Jaladhi says

    May 21, 2018 at 8:25 am

    >“This training negligently promotes an image of Muslims as dangerous.”<

    Aahaa- aren't they dangerous? Just look around the world and count how many innocent non-Muslims are being killed by them everyday!

  9. Tom says

    May 21, 2018 at 10:33 am

    How is it negligent to show that people who are combative and aggressively attack with the intent to kill you are dressed as ISIS or taliban fighters are usually dressed. Given that recent combat experience in war zones has shown them to be exactly dressed in such a way.

    The most active terrorists have been muslims and although all muslims are not terrorists we have found that most terrorists these days are muslim. So it would make sense to emulate the dress of our most common adversary to teach our young warriors who they may end up dealing with.

    CAIR can go shove their cries of racism and Islamophobia, I, for one, am sick of hearing their lies and false accusations.

    • Carolyne says

      May 21, 2018 at 12:40 pm

      I, for one, am sick of Muslims doing anything at all. Period. I’m just sick of them.

  10. Hogdude says

    May 21, 2018 at 11:57 am

    It’s obvious to rational people that Islam is at war with all other religions and governments that are not Islamic based. We, then, should treat them as such by labeling them as the enemy, isolating them by “shunning” them and, if necessary, limiting them and finally, eliminating them from society. Harsh words, yes. Necessary, yes. If not, then, like cancer, it will spread as the result of the mocking liberal attitude of “diversity” and “political correctness”. Lets’ opt for freedom from oppression instead of an eternal threat of death every day of our lives.

  11. FYI says

    May 21, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    CAIR?

    Contrived,
    Absurd,
    Islamic
    Reaction

    Campaign to
    Accentuate
    “islamophobia” :
    Rubbish!

    Cunning
    Avoidance of
    Islam’s
    Reality

    Convert
    America to..
    Islamic
    Repression

    Calling
    All
    Islamists
    ..Retarded

  12. mortimer says

    May 21, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    DO MUSLIMS CONSIDER THEMSELVES “HOSTILE” or “INAMICAL” towards the DIRTY KUFAAR??

    ANSWER: YES. Islam’s top scholars say so…

    -Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]

    -“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.

    – from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”

    – from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”

    – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”

    – from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to SHOW ENMITY to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.
    (Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their ENMITY or HATRED towards the kufaar)

    – from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”

  13. WESTPAC Spy says

    May 22, 2018 at 12:51 am

    “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”

    One need not rely on a lecturer, or what At-Tawbah merely implies. The Quran is much more direct than that

    Surah al-Mumtahanah 60:4

    “There has already been for you an excellent pattern in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people, “Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah . We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you ANIMOSITY AND HATRED FOREVER until you believe in Allah alone” except for the saying of Abraham to his father, “I will surely ask forgiveness for you, but I have not [power to do] for you anything against Allah . Our Lord, upon You we have relied, and to You we have returned, and to You is the destination.”

    Any questions?

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