[Warrior-Mentor]

"Jihadi leaders are surprisingly frank when discussing the vulnerabilities of their movement and their strategies for toppling local regimes and undermining the United States. Their candor is, in large part, a consequence of struggles for leadership within the movement; thus, a leader
of one group will publish his strategic vision in order to gain more recruits and achieve a reputation as a serious scholar worthy of respect. It is also a consequence of the United States’ success in destroying jihadi training camps and denying safe havens—jihadi leaders have had to put their writings online so as to provide continuing guidance to a very decentralized following."

- From "Stealing Al Qaida's Playbook

READ IT HERE:
http://ctc.usma.edu/pdf/Stealing%20A...20--%20CTC.pdf

Originally Posted by Sigaba

She takes others' disagreement with her view point as license to question their intellect, politics, and integrity. She sums up her view: "You're either with us or against us."

In her view, "us" consists of herself, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Bostom, Mr. Wilders, and herself. Which brings us to the five letter word upon which she seems most focused: power. Namely, her own.

This is a nonsequiter - a logic leap.

Originally Posted by Sigaba

Ms. Geller chides Americans for not paying sufficient attention to the supposed threat of Sharia law to American civilization. She blames others for the fact that her message doesn't resonate. Maybe it isn't the message but the messenger. Given the choice between being "right" and being an effective advocate, she picks the former.

Perhaps it's because people are too busy with their day-to-day lives to notice the creeping sharia. Or afraid to recognize the problem. Or unable, unwilling or afraid to do anything about it. "If I ignore the problem, it will go away. It works for ostriches, right?"

[QUOTE=Sigaba;296408]She thinks that throwing a tantrum on a blog she can influence American elites will see it her way. Good luck with that.Do you really believe it is possible for human beings to understand "exactly" how other human beings interpret anything? Consider the best trained, most disciplined people you have ever known. Were they always on exactly the same page all the time? Did they in every instance interpret a communication precisely the same way? Was every directive, instruction, or order obeyed without the least bit of dissent, discussion, comment, or question?

Originally Posted by Sigaba

Do you also believe that human beings are capable of "perfect" understanding of any topic?

Originally Posted by Sigaba

Do we know for a fact what over a billion Muslims are being taught?

We know what sharia law requires. We know our Constitution. And we know that they are incompatible. Starting with the binary answer required of the simple question: which is the supreme law of the land? Article VI of the Constitution says that it is. Sharia states that it is. Which is it?

There are many more, already discussed in the thread comparing the two.

Originally Posted by Sigaba

There are all the comparisons of Islamic theology to Nazism. Yet those who have devoted their professional careers to understanding the latter still don't know for certain what Nazism was about. This state of imperfect knowledge comes despite the fact that they scour the planet for any and all information that might help them piece the puzzle together.

We've got a good enough understanding to know that Nazism led to genocide. It was an evil ideology worthy of destruction by our "greatest generation."

Originally Posted by Sigaba

On the other hand, this wonderful cottage industry built by self describe experts on Islam rests on what? Blog posts linked to blog posts? Journalistic accounts taken off the internet? Google?

This "cottage industry" rests on what? It rests on the sharia itself. It rests on reading the black and white and knowing that the things those you dismiss are in fact right on track. How can someone say so with such surety?

Simple.

Read Hasan's slides. They're on the internet too.

Originally Posted by Sigaba

Where are the translations of sermons being delivered in mosques across the planet? Where are the transcripts of interviews and discussions in cafes, family rooms, farms, office buildings, and in chat rooms that show what a credible sample of Muslims really think, believe, and practice? Where are the field studies showing that the driving force in the Islamic world is Islam and not other factors such as gender, nationalism, politics (including the politics of religion), ethnicity, language, economics, age, psychology, culture, war, or even contingency?

We could show you all of those things and you would deny them too. Just as you'll deny the meaning of the word jihad. "Jihad means fighting. Nothing else." You know who said that? Not me. It was Osama Bin Laden's mentor - Abdullah Azzam. His credentials? He was taught islamic jurisprudence at al-azar university. You can't have a stronger pedigree than that.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/securi...llah_azzam.htm

Originally Posted by Sigaba

IMO, the only thing she's exposing is her own egoism (the name of her blog is instructive, albeit not in the way she'd like) and her utterly abysmal understanding of the history of American strategic culture.

Meanwhile, she's deflecting attention and inquiry from where either would better serve her professed interest--figuring out why her message does not and finding more effective ways to communicate.

Then again, that would require her to put down her megaphone, climb down from the soap box, step out the limelight, and maybe do the kind of research, analysis, and communicating that is going to resonate with people other than those who already agree with her.

But she's obviously too important to the cause to do anything of the kind. And what would be the point? She already has a perfect understanding of exactly what over a billion people already think.

She's got a much better understanding of the issues than most in America - especially those who would willfully blind themselves to the facts.