Old 07-26-2008, 01:41   #1
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Threat Doctrine

You cannot understand the true nature of the threat until you've read Stehen Coughlin's Thesis "To Our Great Detriment".

Here's an introduction:
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4743

Here's his full thesis:
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib...emistJihad.pdf
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Old 09-30-2009, 14:31   #2
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There ought to be copies of MAJ Coughlin's Thesis in every team room, and the O&I Committee should be issuing it out as a course text.

It should have always been clear to any rational thinking, even half-educated person that this is a war between cultures and ideologies and the Islamists are fighting it to win.

One can only wonder at the motives of our country's leaders who refuse to recognize this and insist the contrary. I have my suspicions...
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Agree. And there should be a copy of The Al Qaeda Reader handed out at the end of SFAS - it's also a MUST READ.

Read the summary here:
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/the_al_qaeda_reader

The introduction and foreword by Victor Davis Hanson and Raymond Ibraham are excellent. It's a Coughlin 101.

Get a copy here:
http://www.amazon.com/Al-Qaeda-Reade.../dp/038551655X

"There is no firewall between mahdism and mainstream Islam,
since it is all "in the book," in the Quran, in the vast hadith literature,
in the fiqh, in the jurisprudence derived from both,
in the folktales and collective memory of Muslim peoples."


From Laurent Murawiec's The Mind of Jihad page 325.

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In Their Own Words

August 19, 2007
In Their Own Words
Newly translated writings of the al Qaeda leadership.

by Bruce Thornton
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The Al Qaeda Reader, ed. Raymond Ibrahim, Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson, Doubleday.

Given that war, as both Sun Tzu and Mohammed preached, is deception, it behooves us to understand accurately the enemy’s motivations and not be fooled by his deceiving propaganda. Yet in the current war against Islamic jihad, the West has stubbornly refused to take seriously what the jihadists tell us, believing instead what Thucydides called the “pretexts” with which an enemy rationalizes his aggression. Osama bin Laden and his theorist Aymin al Zawahiri in particular have provided us with numerous texts outlining the Islamic foundations of their war against the West. A few of these pronouncements and manifestoes have long been available, but now thanks to Raymond Ibrahim’s The Al Qaeda Reader, writings previously unavailable in English can be studied and analyzed. Such study will provide powerful evidence that contrary to the deceptions of apologists and the naïve delusions of some Westerners, the bases of the jihadists’ actions lie squarely within Islamic tradition, not in the alleged Western crimes against Islam.

Fluent in Arabic and trained as a historian in the ancient Middle East, Ibrahim is currently a technician in the Library of Congress’ Near East Section, where he discovered al Qaeda documents that had not been translated into English. He has organized these writings into two sections: theology, writings intended for fellow Muslims that ground al Qaeda’s war against the West in the traditional Islamic doctrine of jihad; and propaganda, writings meant for Westerners that cast bin Laden’s war as a just response to the depredations of Western powers.

The documents in the first section make a sustained, coherent argument for offensive jihad based on the Koran, the Hadith (the traditions of the words and deeds of Mohammed), and the Ulema (past and present scholars of Islam). Indeed, as Ibrahim notes, “Zawahiri’s writings especially are grounded in Islam’s roots of jurisprudence; in fact, of the many thousands of words translated here from his three treatises, well more than half are direct quotations from the Koran the Sunna [words, habits, and practices] of Mohammed, and the consensus and conclusions of the Ulema.” This extensive grounding weakens the “highjacking” charge apologists use to explain Islamic jihad. On the contrary, al Qaeda’s arguments are unexceptionally traditional — which is why, of course, millions of Muslims accept them.

In these writings addressed to fellow Muslims, bin Laden and Zawahiri argue against the notion of “moderate” Islam; the compatibility of Sharia (laws governing Islamic society) with democracy; the idea of accommodation with the enemy; and the prohibition against killing women and children. In other words, they meticulously attack as distortions of Islam all the popular assertions about Islam’s nature promulgated by apologists, Westernized Muslims, and even many Christians. As bin Laden himself writes in “Moderate Islam Is a Prostration to the West” — a letter written to the Saudi theologians who in 2002 publicly advocated coexistence with the West — such moderation necessitates the adoption of Western values: “They [the Saudi theologians] first acknowledge their [Westerners’] values and ideologies in their entirety, while shying away from evoking the truth valued by the Religion [Islam] and its foundations.” Even the notion of “co-existence” is a Western idea contrary to Islam: “As if one of the foundations of our religion is how to coexist with infidels!” Quite the contrary: the traditions and foundations of Islam urge believers to “wage war against the infidels and the hypocrites, and be ruthless against them” (Koran 66:9), a verse Zawahiri quotes along with the commentary of al Qurtubi, 13th-century author of a 20-volume exegesis of the Koran: “There is but one theme — and that is zeal for the religion of Allah. He commands the waging of Jihad against the infidel by use of sword, sound sermons, and the summons to Allah.”

So too with other Western notions such as tolerance and “dialogue,” which bin Laden correctly asserts are “built on Western conceptions, which themselves rest upon the most loathsome, secular principles.” Indeed, bin Laden has a strong case, for he appeals for evidence to the life and practices of Mohammed and his companions — along with the Koran the Muslim’s guide to every aspect of life — and asks sarcastically, “What evidence is there for Muslims for this [dialogue and shared understanding]? What did the Prophet, the companions after him, and the righteous forebears do? Did they wage jihad against the infidels, attacking them all over the earth, in order to place them under the suzerainty of Islam in great humility and submission? Or did they send messages to discover ‘shared understandings’ between themselves and the infidels in order that they may reach an understanding whereby universal peace, security, and natural relations would spread — in such a satanic manner as this?”

History shows that bin Laden has the better understanding of Islam than do Western apologists; as Ibrahim summarizes the argument, “‘radical’ Islam is Islam — without exception.” In this same vein, Zawahiri argues in his “Loyalty and Enmity” that the only relationship one can have with the infidel is enmity. Zawahiri buttresses this argument with numerous quotations from Islamic theology, the most important coming from the Koran 60:4: “‘We disown you and the idols which you worship besides Allah. We renounce you: enmity and hate shall reign between us until you believe in Allah alone.’” On this authority comes the necessity to wage jihad against the infidel.

Perhaps the most important document in Ibrahim’s collection is Zawahiri’s “Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Killing of Innocents.” For years, we have been told that terrorism is un-Islamic because Islam forbids suicide and the killing of non-combatants. Zawahiri, however, teases out from Islamic tradition a perfectly rational and coherent argument in support of terrorism and suicide bombings.

Zawahiri starts by repeating Islam’s acceptance of deception in war as justified, thus legitimizing suicide bombings, which are deceptive by nature. Next, he builds his argument on selected hadiths, which as Ibrahim notes requires some interpretive stretching. Zawahiri gets around this difficulty by resorting to analogy, “a legitimate tool of Islamic jurisprudence,” as Ibrahim reminds us. Zawahiri focuses on intention, why the Muslim kills himself, not who kills him: “Thus the deciding factor in all these situations is one and the same: the intention — is it to service Islam [martyrdom] or is it out of depression and [despair]?” As for killing women and children, Mohammed himself provides a precedent during the siege of Ta’if, where he used catapults. The Prophet’s response to the question of killing women and children, which of course catapult missiles would do perforce, was “They [women and children] are from among them [infidels].” Again, the ultimate intention is the key: referring to al Shafi’ and the Hanbalis, two schools of Islamic jurisprudence, Zawahiri argues that it is permissible “to bombard the idolators even if Muslims and those who are cautioned against killing are intermingled with them as long as there is a need or an obligation for Muslims to do so, or if not striking leads to a delay of the jihad.”

Zawahiri’s reasoning in defense of suicide bombing may be ultimately unconvincing to many Muslims, or unsustainable by more careful exegesis. But the mere fact that such a case can be made — something impossible to do in the Christian, or Hebraic, or Hindu, or Buddhist traditions — and that millions of faithful Muslims accept the case, speaks volumes about the “religion of peace.”

The next section of The Al Qaeda Reader comprises selections Ibrahim calls “propaganda,” arguments designed for Westerners that exploit all the self-loathing pathologies of Western intellectuals. Every distortion of history repeated in thousands of American college classrooms, every lurid lie peddled by the Chomsky-Moore cult is repeated by bin Laden, the only difference being a much more explicit indulgence in anti-Semitism. Thus in “Israel, Oil, and Iraq,” Bin Laden really doesn’t sound much different from your typical college professor off on a rant about the Halliburton-Cheney-Bush-neocon [read Jews] nexus. We hear about the “Jews — who direct you [Americans] through the lie of ‘democracy’ to support the Israelis and their machination and in complete antagonism to our religion,” which is basically the same argument American academics continually make about the “Israeli lobby.” Bush is castigated in Chomskyean terms for “concealing his own ambitions and the ambitions of the Zionist lobby in their desire for oil.” Western guilt is massaged by statements like, “He [Bush] is still following the policy of his ancestors who slew the American Indians in order to seize their land and wealth” — this coming from a devotee of the most ruthlessly imperial religion ever. And our old leftist bogey, the “military-industrial complex,” appears when bin Laden tells our troops, “You are spilling your blood to swell the bank accounts of the White House gang and their fellow arms dealers and the proprietors of great companies.”
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These leftist bromides appear over and over in subsequent speeches and manifestoes, and testify to bin Laden’s shrewd recognition of the West’s Achilles heel: the appeasing proclivities of its elite intellectuals who, riddled with self-loathing guilt, are incapable of defending their way of life and its highest goods. So our Saudi millionaire businessman rants on about “providing business [contracts] for their [the Bush administration] private corporations,” the 2000 presidential election “stolen” by the Bush clan, the “contracts acquired by large and dubious corporations, such as Halliburton,” and the stupidity of our troops, who “convinced of injustices and lies of their government . . . fight only for the sake of capitalists, the lords of usury [code for Jews], and arms and oil dealers — such as that gang of criminals in the White House.” Even the failure to sign the Kyoto agreement, the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, and the supposed flouting of international law — standard anti-American leftist charges — are trotted out by bin Laden, who mentions not one of these complaints when talking to fellow Muslims, for the simple reason that traditional Muslims care nothing for them. But guilt-ridden, self-loathing Westerners of the sort currently agitating for withdrawal from Iraq care very much.

The Al Qaeda Reader, simply by letting our enemies speak in their own voices, explodes the popular delusion that Western crimes and policies are responsible for the “distortion” of Islam that al Qaeda represents. As Ibrahim writes, “This volume of translations, taken as whole, prove once and for all that, despite the propaganda of Al Qaeda and its sympathizers, Radical Islam’s war with the West is not finite and limited to political grievances — real or imagined — but is existential, transcending time and space and deeply rooted in faith.” This means that the fight will be long and hard, that leaving Iraq or creating a Palestinian state will not buy peace, and that the side that accurately understands its enemy and has confidence in its own beliefs will ultimately triumph. Thanks to Raymond Ibrahim’s The Al Qaeda Reader, we have the means for achieving that understanding.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/thornton081907.html
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Gaubatz' Recommended Reading...

Gaubatz' Recommended Reading...

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Gaubatz: "First I should mention the majority of mosques in America are predominately Sunni, and therefore the manuals/books being used are in accordance with this sect of Muslim people. There are five primary manuals used by the Sunni people to help them better understand ‘Pure Islam’. All are very clear in one aspect. They promote hatred of Jews, Christians, and Muslims who do not adhere to ‘all’ aspects of Sharia law. These manuals are:

1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir

2. Fiqh Us Sunnah

3. Sahih Ul Muslim

4. Sahih al-Bukharii

5. Reliance of the Traveler


"I highly encourage readers, specifically our elected officials and law enforcement to review these Islamic materials. After reading the entire manuals, readers will be more educated about Islam, but more importantly they will understand Islamic leaders in America are putting a ‘sheet over the eyes of non-Muslims’ in order to hide their true objectives; which are to spread Islam across the world, under Sharia (Islamic law), and through violence when required.

CAIR leaders promote and advocate the teachings of a prominent terrorist leader, Abul Maududi. Maududi describes the goals and objectives of Islam best through his many writings and specific statements:

1. “If you accept the whole of Islam in your life…a time will come when Communism will fear for its survival in Moscow, Capitalistic democracy will tremble for its safety in Washington and New York”.

* Book: “Come let us change this World” page 83. Author: Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi. Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic Party), a political party in Pakistan.

2. “Islam requires the earth—not just a portion, but the whole planet”

* Book: Jihad in Islam, by Syed Abul A’la Maududi. Page 10
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Republicans Call for CAIR Investigations

On a related issue
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Republicans Call for CAIR Investigations
10/15/2009 - Connie Hair
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. non-profit Muslim activist group associated with Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, is reeling under new allegations of highly suspect activity.
--The allegations are contained in a new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America—
“It’s frightening to think that an organization with clear-cut ties to terrorism could have a hand in influencing policy -- especially national security policy -- within our government,”
One 2007 CAIR internal strategy memo in particular exposes CAIR’s plan to place their operatives as interns on the staffs of members of targeted national security-related Congressional committees. The Intelligence, Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees were specifically singled out in their internal memo as the objective of their intern placement operation.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33987#
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Jed Babbin (Human Events) asked why they weren't interested in the small business or agriculture committees?

You do the math.
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You cannot understand the true nature of the threat until you've read Stehen Coughlin's Thesis "To Our Great Detriment".

Here's an introduction:
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4743

Here's his full thesis:
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib...emistJihad.pdf
Sorry to bump another old thread . . .

I'm going to read this thesis. I've already done about 10 pages. Pretty compelling. As for the link to Campus Watch, Jeffrey Breinholt is a pin head IMO. But he's still right about the analysys (so far).
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Green Light,
After you finish reading the tome, you might want to check out Warrior Mentors review of the book -Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...t=Muslim+Mafia

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Green Light Thanks for this Bump!!!!

I missed this one.


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"There is no firewall between mahdism and mainstream Islam,
since it is all "in the book," in the Quran, in the vast hadith literature,
in the fiqh, in the jurisprudence derived from both,
in the folktales and collective memory of Muslim peoples."
Great Quote!!! So ture too!!
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