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November 30, 2011
Stupidity Alert: Obama Administration Bans Knowledge of Islam
Topics: Political News and commentariesLast month The Daily Caller revealed that "the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive." Today, over at Hudson NY, Raymond Ibrahim discusses the dangers in such a ridiculously naive and misguided act and the Obama administration's ongoing campaign to eradicate words (word censoring), and thus knowledge, concerning Islam, including the argument that, by using words like mujahid, we "legitimize" the jihadists in the eyes of the Muslim world:
[...] the notion that the words we use can ever have an impact on what is and is not legitimate for Muslims is ludicrous: Muslims are not waiting around for Americans or their government -- that is, the misguided, the deluded, in a word, the infidel -- to define Islam for them. For Muslims, only Sharia determines right and wrong.Read the whole piece here.The U.S. government needs to worry less about which words appease Muslims and worry more about providing its intelligence community -- not to mention its own citizenry -- with accurate knowledge concerning the nature of the threat.
Without words related to Islam, how are analysts to make sense of the current conflict? What are the goals and motivations of the "jihadists"? What are their methods? Who might be "radicalizing" them? Whom are they affiliated to? Who supports them? These and a host of other questions are unintelligible without free use of words related to Islam.
Knowledge is inextricably linked to language. The more generic the language, the less precise the knowledge; conversely, the more precise the language, the more precise the knowledge. In the current conflict, to acquire accurate knowledge, which is essential to victory, we need to begin with accurate language.
This means U.S. intelligence analysts and policymakers need to be able to use, and fully appreciate the significance of, words related to Islam -- starting with the word "Islam" itself, i.e., submission to a worldview based on Sharia, a code of law antithetical to Western common law. It means the U.S. military needs to begin expounding and studying Islamic war doctrine -- without fear of reprisal, such as when counter-terrorism strategist Stephen Coughlin was fired by the Pentagon for focusing on Islamic doctrine and therefore being politically incorrect.
In short, it means America's leadership needs to take that ancient dictum -- "Know thy enemy" -- seriously.
What the Obama administration is doing is in effect not only putting blinders on our law enforcement and national security communities, but as former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy has said - it's empowering the worst elements of the American Islamic community, which are the leadership elements linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. However, I'll take what McCarthy says and go a step further by saying that the Obama administration is 'submitting' to Islamists while giving our enemy the tools to kill us with - both literally and culturally.
And make no mistake about it, groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) that the Obama administration 'submitted' to ... support political Islam and are Islamic fundamentalists whose agenda is that of the Muslim Brotherhood:
"The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of Grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions." - An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America; Mohamed Akram, 1991Related video: The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America:
Posted by Hyscience at November 30, 2011 2:04 PM
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