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US general: “Little progress has been made in addressing the underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism”

Oct 17, 2018 11:34 am By Robert Spencer

Indeed not, because the U.S. military is still committed to ignoring, downplaying, or denying outright the motivating ideology that leads to jihad terror. Dunford’s use of the Obama-era euphemism “violent extremism,” when he means Islamic jihad, is one indication of this. As long as the U.S. is committed as a matter of policy to not knowing the enemy, it will never be able in any effective way to “address the underlying conditions” that lead to the enemy’s gaining of strength.

“U.S. general says conditions for Islamist extremism still linger,” by Idrees Ali, Reuters, October 17, 2018:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ top military officer said on Tuesday that little progress had been made in dealing with the underlying conditions that have given rise to armed Islamist militants, even as military gains have been made against groups like Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

“Little progress has been made in addressing the underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism,” said Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

U.S.-backed forces and Iraqi militias liberated nearly all of the territory that Islamic State, also known as ISIS, once controlled in Iraq and Syria.

“Challenges remain in our political, our military, our intelligence, and our law enforcement cooperation despite the fact that we’ve had some positive trends and cooperation; clearly there is much more to be done,” said Dunford, who was speaking during a conference countering violent extremism….

In a report earlier this year, the State Department warned that Islamic State, al Qaeda and its affiliates have adapted by dispersing and becoming less vulnerable to military action after the United States and its partners made “major strides” against the armed Islamist groups.

Islamic State, al Qaeda and their affiliates “have proven to be resilient, determined and adaptable, and they have adjusted to heightened counterterrorism pressure in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere,” the report said….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    This US military general had spoken some truth concerning terrorism in our current times when he said “little progress has been made…” That general has unknowingly exposed as to why “little progress as been made” because he refuses to name the enemy, who are Muslim terrorists, who engage in the vicious murderous violence of Islamic terrorism in the violent jihad for the advancement of Islam..

    His refusing to specifically name the enemy is part of the strange but common phenomena in America modern PC culture that when it comes to Islamic terrorism there are many people who are afraid to call it what it is. That’s odd because no one is afraid to call a person who engages in violence for anarchy and “anarchist terrorist”. Nor are people afraid to call a Marxist who engages in violence for the ideology of communism a “Communist terrorist.” Likewise, a person who commits violence for Environmentalism an “Environmentalist terrorists. “Nevertheless, when it comes to a Muslim terrorist who engages in deadly violence because of the theology and ideology of Islam, many people fear to call that person an “Islamic terrorists.” Strange but true. Therefore its no wonder that little progress had been made in this “War of Ideas.”

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 12:08 pm

      It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 12:50 pm

        To mortimer, yesyou are indeed right. It is the ideology . To the more clear and specific ,its the Islamic ideology of the jihad of Islamic terrorism . Which has its entire foundation build on the theology of Islam.

        • Andy says

          Oct 18, 2018 at 10:06 am

          In order to defeat the ENEMY you have to NAME THE ENEMY.

          Just like Hitler had Mein Kampf telling exactly what he was going to do, Well Islam has The Koran telling exactly what Moslems will do.

          It doesn’t take a lot of brain power General to realize this.

          STOP POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and start to get real with looking into NAMING THE ENEMY OF OUR WORLD TODAY!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 18, 2018 at 11:58 pm

          True, Andy.

        • Andy says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 2:34 pm

          Thanks grave, Common sense leadership is what is needed more than ever at this crucial time.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 21, 2018 at 12:31 am

          And this is sadly in short supply right now.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 9:47 pm

      DEPROGRAMMING 101

      The Quran’s Many Problems 09 – Thirty-One Different Qurans! 31!

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 9:57 pm

        Mortimer, how many Muslims have been “deprogrammed” by having Infidels point this out to them?

        • Joe says

          Oct 18, 2018 at 6:56 am

          From the testimonials that I have read, the ex-Muslims were sickened by what they read in the Koran. You have probably seen it. AFAIK, there are no scientific analysis, but the answer is non-zero. Some Muslims are deprogrammed.

          Of course, Islam has a remedy, death to apostates. Yet, in some countries that allow Muslims, murder is not legal.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 2:10 pm

          Joe, if most Muslims became deprogrammed by reading the Qur’an, we would not have the problem with Jihad that we do.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 18, 2018 at 8:30 am

        GI, you know VERY WELL that no prisoner anywhere is being INFLUENCED to be DEPROGRAMMED … that is that problem. You know damn well that no study of deprogramming has been done because such measures would be politically EXPLOSIVE for Western countries. But they have to do something … doing nothing in the ideological warfare side IS NOT AN OPTION. You know that… yet your approach is to do nothing and wring your hands at Jihad Watch daily! What effect is your hand-wringing having to counter jihad?

        You know damn well, no government department anywhere is COUNTERING THE IDEOLOGY of JIHADISM. Your do-nothing-ism is GUARANTEED to change NOTHING, isn’t it? Can you measure how little YOU are accomplishing by hand-wringing?

        GI, your very smug question avoids and ignores the extreme STUPIDITY and NEGLIGENCE of Western politicians. Western politicians are so concerned about the Muslim vote, that they are doing NOTHING about countering the DOCTRINE of JIHADISM.

        There is a book on AMAZON that highlights the sad state of affairs.

        Countering Heedless Jihad: Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage by James A. Sheppard (Author), David J. Dunford (Contributor), Major General Michael Lehnert (Contributor), Khuram Iqbal (Contributor).

        They think they can confuse the jihadists by claiming in different ways that ‘Islam is a religion of peace.’ Anyone who read the source texts knows that is NOT going to happen.

        A FOOL’S ERRAND that book is.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 18, 2018 at 11:56 pm

          mortimer wrote:

          GI, you know VERY WELL that no prisoner anywhere is being INFLUENCED to be DEPROGRAMMED … that is that problem.
          …………………………..

          Mortimer, since this has never been done anywhere successfully, how can you continue to claim that this works? There is absolutely no evidence that Muslims will ever listen to these they regard as the “filthy Infidels”, nor that they are apt to be impressed by reason and logic. In fact, everything about Islam points to this not working.

          More:

          You know damn well that no study of deprogramming has been done because such measures would be politically EXPLOSIVE for Western countries.
          …………………………..

          There have actually been numerous hopeful attempts to “deprogram” Muslims–all of these attempts have been failures, when not outright fakes.

          Robert Spencer has pointed out many of these over the years.

          Here is just one sad example:

          “Australia: Multi-million-dollar taxpayer-funded ‘deradicalization’ helpline ‘failing to gain traction’”

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/australia-multi-million-dollar-taxpayer-funded-deradicalization-helpline-failing-to-gain-traction

          He says, “Deradicalization programs, upon which the West has placed so much hope, have long been an obvious failure”.

          There are, sadly, many more examples.

          More:

          But they have to do something … doing nothing in the ideological warfare side IS NOT AN OPTION. You know that… yet your approach is to do nothing and wring your hands at Jihad Watch daily! What effect is your hand-wringing having to counter jihad?
          …………………………..

          The idea that we can do nothing save pretend that the hordes of Muslims flooding in to the West can all be handily “deprogrammed” is the only thing we can do is quite mistaken, Mortimer.

          As I have said umpteen times here, we need to stop importing millions of violent supremacist Muslims into the West, then we need to start deporting Muslims here–beginning with the worst Jihadists.

          We have to crack down hard on Jihad, investigating families, Mosques, and all known associates.

          We also need to reassert our civilized culture and values, rather than playing the dhimmi for stealth Jihad.

          And we know that the West was almost entirely safe from Islam for almost two hundred years before Muslims began to flood in here. We *know that this works*.

          More:

          You know damn well, no government department anywhere is COUNTERING THE IDEOLOGY of JIHADISM. Your do-nothing-ism is GUARANTEED to change NOTHING, isn’t it? Can you measure how little YOU are accomplishing by hand-wringing?
          …………………………..

          How are my proven suggestions “do-nothing-ism”? Mortimer, this makes no sense.

          More:

          GI, your very smug question avoids and ignores the extreme STUPIDITY and NEGLIGENCE of Western politicians. Western politicians are so concerned about the Muslim vote, that they are doing NOTHING about countering the DOCTRINE of JIHADISM.
          …………………………..

          Of course the West should not be pandering to Muslims–implying that I have ever urged this is just calumny.

          And my question is not smug–nor is it one you have been able to answer. I don’t want to see the West waste more time and effort on programs based on the assumption that Muslims are logical and rational and will happily respond to Infidels pointing out the inconsistencies of Islam.

          More:

          There is a book on AMAZON that highlights the sad state of affairs.

          Countering Heedless Jihad: Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage by James A. Sheppard (Author), David J. Dunford (Contributor), Major General Michael Lehnert (Contributor), Khuram Iqbal (Contributor).

          They think they can confuse the jihadists by claiming in different ways that ‘Islam is a religion of peace.’ Anyone who read the source texts knows that is NOT going to happen.

          A FOOL’S ERRAND that book is.
          …………………………..

          Yes, it is a fool’s errand–or perhaps Taqiyya, in Khuram Iqbal’s case. Given his being at the National Defense University of Pakistan, this is most likely.

          This is a straw man argument, in any case, since I have never said that Islam is a religion of peace, nor that we should absurdly try to convince Jihadists that this is so.

          Mortimer, I actually have a great deal of respect for your knowledge of the vicious texts of Islam. But with all respect, your constant flogging of the fantasy of “deprogramming” Muslims simply makes no sense.

        • Mark Swan says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 6:21 pm

          Thank you gravenimage for not letting this Hypotheses go unquestioned.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 9:38 pm

          Thank you, Mark.

    • Norger says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 11:58 pm

      No war has ever been won against an enemy whom the victor refused to name. And it’s even worse than that. As Major Stephen Coughlin chronicles in his book Catastrophic Failure, our military leaders have made a conscious decision to discourage study of our enemy’s self-declared threat doctrine; I.e. Islamic theology. That is a refusal to KNOW the most numerous, dangerous and determined enemies in the history the United States, on the part of military officers who took an oath to protect this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Sun Tzu’s axiom, “know your enemy” is the most basic necessity of any competent military force. Infuriating and treasonous..

    • J D S says

      Oct 18, 2018 at 9:19 pm

      As long as the President,top officers in the military, congressmen, senators, the judicial, law enforcement and every other American citizen and all other nations leaders and peoples that crave FREEDOM, refuses to call Islamic terrorism what it is. ISLAMIC TERRORISM and use all the means at hand to defeat it, then nothing will happen and innocent people will continue to be murdered….and terrorism is murder no matter what Islamic teachings calls it..IT STILL IS MURDER and the world needs to understand and take action.

      Any religion, sect or group that condones what Islam does should be eradicated…what Islam condones and practices is against what God (JESUS) teaches and I’m sure He is looking down upon us with sorrow and punishing thoughts.

  2. mike9a says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Good to know they are all the same: violent extremists, Asian origin, refugee origin, dark complex, vehicle attacked people, lorry plowed into people, knife attacked and killed two, bomb activated itself among infidels, …. motives unknown to police.
    Please add to the list all the UNKNOWN descriptions so we can recognize the CULT!

  3. mortimer says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Marine General Joseph Dunford is pointing his finger at the ‘underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism”. Is he being naïve or intentionally and craftily ambiguous. I prefer to believe it is the latter, because that gives us a glimmer that he gets it. If the former, then Robert Spencer is on target.

    Dunford is CLUELESS about the JIHAD DOCTRINE which is an ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE of ISLAM, rather than an aberration.

    An ESSENTIAL religious teaching is one that is REQUIRED FOR SALVATION. Muslims must BELIEVE AND PRACTICE jihad in order to be admitted to Islamic paradise.

    Dunford should consider the repercussion of that last statement for policy. The only way to stop jihad, in that case is to DEPROGRAM MUSLIMS. Deprogramming Muslims should be a top priority of the English-speaking alliance. They should immediately develop programs and operations to expose the fragile and incredible historical origins, contradictory archeology, late dating and fabricated texts of Islam which completely undermine faith in Islam. When most Muslims understand these things, few jihadists will exist and their support will drop from 280 M Muslims to a few thousands.

    • PRCS says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 3:26 pm

      “Dunford is CLUELESS about the JIHAD DOCTRINE which is an ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE of ISLAM, rather than an aberration.”

      You’re not clairvoyant, Mortimer.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 9:45 pm

        Dunford is either concealing lying about his knowledge of Islam or he is GENUINELY uninformed.

        There are only two options. If he is concealing his knowledge, those who are knowledgeable do not trust him. If he is uninformed, he should inform himself or leave the job.

        Dunford doesn’t speak like someone who understands the AL WALAA WAL BARAA DOCTRINE.

        Without a knowledge of AL WALAA WAL BARAA, YOU yourself, PRCS, haven’t a solid understanding of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      Mortimer, when has Infidels “deprogramming” Muslims *ever* worked?

      • mortimer says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 9:38 pm

        GI, deprogramming is being done successfully every day on the internet (ex. Hamid Abdul Samed’s “A Box of Islam” series, Al Fadi’s Cira Series and many other series).

        You are admitting you are non-observant and cannot see what is going on.

        These are NOT being used in jails. Such materials are designed to deprogram and will do so with exposure over time.

        You are not paying attention.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 12:33 am

          Mortimer wrote:

          GI, deprogramming is being done successfully every day on the internet (ex. Hamid Abdul Samed’s “A Box of Islam” series, Al Fadi’s Cira Series and many other series).
          ………………………….

          The handful of questioning Muslims who may seek out Hamid Abdul Samed’s or Al Fadi’s work are not being deprogrammed. They are deciding on their own to leave Islam if they choose to do this.

          They are not doing so because the Infidels are making them do it.

          And the pious Muslims who watch these videos are more apt to send death threats to these brave apostates:

          “German author in hiding after receiving Islamist death threats”

          A German author of Egyptian origin has gone into hiding after having recieved death threats from Islamists. Hamed Abdel-Samad is one of Germany’s highest-profile experts on Islam.

          https://www.dw.com/en/german-author-in-hiding-after-receiving-islamist-death-threats/a-16874970

          More:

          You are admitting you are non-observant and cannot see what is going on.
          ………………………….

          How does my noting all of this make me “non-observant”?

          More:

          These are NOT being used in jails. Such materials are designed to deprogram and will do so with exposure over time.

          You are not paying attention.
          ………………………….

          Certainly, we should not be pandering to Muslims in jail, giving them Qur’ans and prayer rugs and Halal meals.

          But where is your evidence that Muslims in jail–many of them there for crimes against the “filthy Infidels”–would all decide to leave Islam if made to watch apostate videos? Citations, please.

          I *am* paying attention–there is absolutely no indication that Muslims in general–let alone violent felons–are going to leave Islam just because we ask them to.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:14 pm

    It’s very obvious and this US general is being politically correct by walking on Islamic eggshells by refueling to uses the appropriate terms to describe and name the enemy . So instead if using the filling terms as Islamic terrorism or Muslim terrorists he substitutes the the accurate terms by using the vague phrase “violent extremism.”

    What is US general calls “violent extremism” is very much based on religion. The religion of Islam For Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.

  5. kaboooooooooooooooooom says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:14 pm

    The systemic root of “violent extremism”, General Dunford, is islam and the systemic root of islam, General, is the koran. I just solved your “underlying conditions” recognition issue for you – now read the koran and subsequently create Policy to address the problem of islam.

    Implement the prescribed solution and you will save TRILLIONS of Dollars and MANY MANY thousands of lives. Achieve that and you will enter history as perhaps the greatest General the planet produced and having summered with your predecessor, General Martin Dempsey, in Ranafast, as a young teen, and gotten a measure of him – it should not be as difficult as his job was (he had to deal with a marxist/moslims President) – you have the support of a REAL American POTUS, Trump, who at minimum has significant awareness of the evil that is islam and who is implementing measures to address islam.

    I implore Americans to vote Republican in November to provide President Trump the platform, beginning with the SCOTUS, whereby to finally begin addressing the scourge of islam. Trump in 2020 – if he is not re-elected America will return to kicking-the-can of islam down the road, at unsustainable economic and human life cost.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 1:02 pm

      Dear kaboo, you need to learn more about Islam. No Islamic teaching is based solely on the Koran, but upon the VOLUMINOUS complementary literature of the Sira, hadiths, canonical commentaries, Sharia law manuals and fatwas of leading *ulemas* and finally, upon the CONSENSUS of Islam. Please inform yourself on the sources of ISLAMIC AUTHORITY.

      There is no PRIVATE opinion of Islam that ordinary Muslims may exercise based on their PRIVATE interpretation of the Koran. Islam is not permissive in the matter of interpretation as are some Protestant sects.

      • kaboooooooooooooooooom says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 2:05 pm

        Morti hound – acquaint yourself with the meaning of the expression/term “Systemic Root” – the more informed you become, the less you will make a fool of yourself. On a more positive note you appear to have reduced your dystopian obsession with deprogramming moslims – a moderately encouraging sign.

        You might also consider adopting Dr. Kaboooooooooooooooom’s advice to gravystain regarding a daily light massaging of the temporal nodes to resume normal cognitive processing.

        • CelticToTheBone says

          Oct 17, 2018 at 2:21 pm

          Kabooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 17, 2018 at 7:29 pm

          “gravystain” is myself. The nasty kaboooooooooooooooooom has said that he is going to make me bang my head on the floor–presumably a reference to Muslim “worship”.

        • mortimer says

          Oct 17, 2018 at 9:48 pm

          DEPROGRAMMING 101

          The Quran’s Many Problems 09 – Thirty-One Different Qurans! 31!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 19, 2018 at 2:18 pm

          No–the idea of deprogramming Muslims so they won’t murder us is not dystopian. Really, I wish it would work.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 10:09 pm

      The PENTAGON’S THEORY of jihad is confused, wrong, silly and WORTHLESS.

      THIS IS THERE PLAN TO CONFUSE THE JIHADISTS … (it won’t convince anyone … )

      … the Pentagon’s confused jihad theory is in this book …

      “Countering Heedless Jihad: Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage

      by James A. Sheppard (Author), David J. Dunford (Contributor), Major General Michael Lehnert (Contributor), Khuram Iqbal (Contributor)

      Review: In this innovative manual for the professional and interested layman alike, Sheppard has taken aim squarely at a problem that has shackled the West’s “War on Terror” for nearly two decades now: how to delegitimize radical ideology without appearing to attack Islam itself. Politicians seldom come closer than broad platitudes about the benign nature of Islam that fail to ring true with jihadis, their supporters, and their audiences in the Muslim world. Sheppard’s insight is that the extremist message, while rooted in religious imagery and theology, is at heart a war-fighting doctrine, an ideology forged to advance political and military purposes. As such, it is susceptible to sabotage and confusion. The trick is to find the right tools. Sheppard proposes a wide range of tactics and techniques, such as selecting the right messengers and making clever use of the Internet-based multimedia outlets use by the radicals themselves, with which to cross-wire militant ideology from within. Countering Heedless Jihad is an insightful and comprehensive guide to a neglected but vital battlefield. (Charles W. Dunne, Middle East Institute)

      Pentagon Refuses to Recognize Salafi Jihad as US Enemy

      The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) demands of staff officers of US Marine Corps and General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to include Salafi Jihad to the list of US enemies. However, the officers oppose the demand.

      The Washington Times information website reported:

      “US Special Operations Command has privately pressed the staff of the nation’s highest-ranking military officer to include in his upcoming National Military Strategy [NMS] a discussion of the Sunni Muslim ideology underpinning the brutality of the Islamic State group and al Qaeda… The 2015 public version does not mention Islamic ideology. It lists terrorists under the ambiguous category of ‘violent extremist organizations’ and singles out al Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

      …Special Operations Command wants the National Military Strategy to specifically name Salafi jihadism as the doctrine that inspires violent Muslim extremists. Salafi jihadism is a branch within Sunni Islam. It is embraced by the Islamic State and used to justify its mass killings of nonbelievers, including Shiite Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds, as well as Christians. People knowledgeable about the discussion told The Washington Times that SOCOM has not been able to persuade Gen. Dunford’s staff to include Salafi jihadism in any strategy draft.”

      https://southfront.org/pentagon-refuses-to-recognize-salafi-jihad-as-us-enemy/

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    Of course “little progress has been made…” since to many of the men in power in different positions US government are too politically correct and weak as to cave in to the “Muslim sensitivities ” and not name the enemy . The enemy are the Muslim terrorists who are totally committed to their religion of hard core non-watered down genuine Islam..

    For example, those brutal vicious jihadist/ Muslims of ISIS with their murderous Islamic scheming for further jihad attacks in the USA and in the different countries of Europe is a awful and wicked reality. Those brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice, with all their ruthless actions, the violence and killing that is part of the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. Which contain the doctrine of extreme violent force for the advancement of Islam. As seen in the Koran, for example, 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So in spite of the strong denials by many, ISIS is an actual Islamic organization. Likewise the malicious, bloodthirsty violence jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling and deadly ? “ The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.

  7. mortimer says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 12:56 pm

    “VIOLENT EXTREMISM” is a way of referring to JIHADISM … the doctrine that JIHAD is the MOST IMPORTANT ISLAMIC PRACTICE. JIHADISM is NORMATIVE ISLAM, rather than ‘extreme’ Islam.

    – “In the Muslim community, the HOLY WAR IS A RELIGIOUS DUTY, because of the… MISSION TO CONVERT EVERYBODY TO ISLAM EITHER BY PERSUASION OR BY FORCE… Islam is under OBLIGATION TO GAIN POWER OVER OTHER NATIONS.” – from The Muqudimmah by Islamic historian and philosopher, Ibn Khaldun

    -Muhammad said: “I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah …” (Bukhari 4.52.196; 1.2.25)

    -Whoever dies without having fought or having resolved to fight has died following one of the branches of hypocrisy.” (Reported by Muslim).
    (Zad al-Ma`ad, 3/9-11)

    – “Muslims must kill disbelievers wherever they are unless they convert to Islam.” – Dr. Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt, Al Ahram, Apr.7, 2008

    -Al Qaida tells us that (Al Qaida Rejects Saudi Ultimatum, Worldnetdaily 7/15/04):

    Jihad for the sake of Allah is one of the religious obligations of Islam, which has been practiced by the heroes of the Islamic nation, as a way of removing injustice to them, slaughtering their enemies, and aspiring towards rightly guided caliphate.

    -“There is no nobler life than to die as a martyr for jihad. None. The highest deed in Islam is Jihad. If we commit to Jihad, we can neglect other deeds, even fasting and prayer”.
    Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, Jakarta 2005

    -“As a complete Code of Life, the Holy Quran gives us a philosophy of war as well. THIS DIVINE PHILOSOPHY (of war) IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TOTAL QURANIC IDEOLOGY. It is a philosophy that is controlled and conditioned by the Word of God from its conception till conclusion. No other military thought known to Man possesses this supreme characteristic; from it, flow its numerous other attributes. It is complete, perfect, comprehensive, balanced. practical and effective.” -From “The Quranic Concept of War” by Gen S.K. Malik.

    -Saudi-based Web site Al-Minbar quoted Sheikh Muhammad Saleh al-Munajjid as saying:

    “Muslims must … educate their children to Jihad. This is the greatest benefit of the situation: educating the children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels; educating the children to Jihad and to revival of the embers of Jihad in their souls.”

  8. Guy Forester says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    Dear General D:

    Thank you for the obfuscation, psychobabble, and military jargon PPT. It was interesting, but not useful. I suspect that the marines at the point of the spear would tell you to pull your head out of a rather dark and obnoxious location. However, I will be polite and recommend that you retire while you still have some degree of credibility. Perhaps someone that is not politically correct can replace you. However, after BHO removed so many officers, I suspect that those willing to name the enemy were culled at least 2-3 years ago, if not more.

    So, in addition to resetting US policy and priorities here and abroad, the military needs rebuilding and re-equipping due to overuse and misuse. That means the leadership needs reorienting and replacing. That means our military academies need re-staffing with not politically correct instructors that can teach leadership and combat skills. This is a daunting task and DJT will need a second term or a successor that is willing and able to reorient our country and military.

    Finally, the military is not useful as a nation building tool unless the nation wants rebuilding and those that were leading it into ruin have been discredited, removed, and are no longer a threat (as in dead). The folly of what we are trying to do in the meddle east (pun intended) should be obvious by now. Time to leave them to their own usual internecine conflicts.

    I do thank you for your service, but I think it is time for some new thinking.

  9. gravenimage says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 7:35 pm

    US general: “Little progress has been made in addressing the underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism”
    …………………

    Gee–might it be…Islam?

  10. rooare says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    The only way to deal with Islam is to isolate Muslims in their own little Shiite holes, not allow any to enter our Republic or any other free or civilized nation, the only thing Muslims understand is force and that is what must be applied generously.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 9:20 pm

      Yes–we were largely safe from Islam of the better part of two centuries when Muslims were isolated from the West.

  11. Berengaria says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    Why are these DEMS-In-Uniform, still in the High Command of Our Military? Gen. Dunford is still pushing the “WIN THE HEARTS & MINDS OF THE ENEMY” Mission & still has the same Cadre of Officers, who are committed to the same Failed Policies.
    VIOLENT EXTREMISM, My Aunt Fanny, The Enemy is ISLAM, not Radical Islam, just ISLAM!

  12. Rob298 says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 1:28 am

    This is true of virtually all western governments. The reason is that the advisers who are telling the truth about just how bad Islam is are precisely the advisers they refuse to listen to.

  13. Indiana Tom says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 5:37 am

    As long as the U.S. is committed as a matter of policy to not knowing the enemy, it will never be able in any effective way to “address the underlying conditions” that lead to the enemy’s gaining of strength.
    The government knows the enemy alright, they just deliberately tiptoe about the real issues for the sake of political correctness and pursuing soft skills and corrupt nation building.

  14. Terra Nova says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 5:46 am

    General D. Does this article of yours give you a promotion in your job? Wise words of a general.
    My God, is this the US Army nowadays.
    You should kick all muslims out, because the moderates will start again when instructed by their “prophet”,they will only do the killings faster.
    Don’t you know it yet what is going to happen? Stick your head in the sand and keep it there, the easiest way, the spineless way, selling your own people out. If you did not get it by now, I have no hope for us.
    I am not for war and I write sometimes primitively, but English is not my mother language, but I am so disgusted and fed up and I can see it coming closer and closer.
    And all you muslims, the kabooooo and Mr Ibrahime who are yelling at Mortimer, Spencer, and Graven,
    what do you know, you are only thinking of your victory, your 72 virgins, how many you girls you are going to get and rape, your new slaves, etc.
    What I never wanted, was another war, but even Christ told us, you have to love your enemies, but when attacked you have to fight back. What Christians do now is: hiding themselves behind Christianity
    and making up words from Christ: Love your enemies and don’t fight back. They really have put fear into you.
    And then. This high ranked General wants to say something and he did.
    I don’t care any more what the underground or background of muslims are, that point was passed a long time ago.Is this the way you raised your children too over all those years? Then you sold them out too. From the USA I expected some more. You let Trump drain the swamps, by himself, you tried to impeach him, slender him, he might not be the best of people and is not so civilized, but he is a Patriot, which you can’t say of most of your presidents. The only one I can think of is JFK.
    But do not try to tell us stories, we heard enough lies of muslims, clerics, Popes, brotherhoods, leftists, feminists, globalists, presidents, etc. You will have to come up with something better.

  15. Brad says

    Oct 18, 2018 at 7:21 am

    Underlying problem? it’s called islam.

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