Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Interview with 20-Year U.S. Naval Instructor, “In all that time, from 1998 to 2018, were you given one class, one lesson, a book, anything at all, that discussed Islam’s doctrine of warfare against unbelievers?”

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Unbelievable.

Why We Are Bogged Down in Afghanistan

Last Friday, I spoke at the Eagle Council in St. Louis, where both the speaker roster and the audience were full of stalwart, indomitable patriots. One of the patriots there was Mark Schneider, President of Gen IV Nuclear Inc. in Chesapeake, Virginia. He served for twenty years  was on the ground in Iraq and Kuwait, and he offered a disquieting insight into an important but overlooked reason why our lengthy military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have borne so little fruit.

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Schneider was in the United States military from 1998 to 2018, years during which the primary threat that our nation faced was the global jihad, which was, after all, the reason why we had our forces in Iraq and Kuwait, as well as Afghanistan, in the first place. We had a long and fascinating conversation, but the most important takeaway was this: I asked him, “In all that time, from 1998 to 2018, were you given one class, or even one lesson, or were recommended one book, anything at all, that discussed Islam’s doctrine of warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers?

No. Not one.

Instead, all his training revolved around not offending Afghans’ cultural sensitivities. Schneider went for detention operations; his cultural training included subjects such as “What is Ramadan?” He and other American personnel were told not to eat or drink during the day, even though none of them were Muslim. They were allowed to eat and drink during the day when they were on military bases, but not off; American personnel were discouraged from consuming food while off military installations.

The other thing that Schneider and other American troops were taught was that if they were anything other than Muslim or Christian, they had to say they were Muslim or Christian, because, they were told, the Afghans “didn’t like other religions.” They were only allowed to say they were adherents of the religions of the God of Abraham, although of course they were not to mention Judaism.

They were also told not to wave at people with their left hand or ever touch anyone with that hand, as it was considered unclean. Also, men were warned not to speak directly to women.

That was about it. Nothing, nothing whatsoever, on why the enemy was fighting against us. Nothing about how the enemy viewed the world and what he was trying to achieve. The first rule of warfare is “Know your enemy,” and our troops have been and are woefully ill-equipped in that regard. They know how not to wave at the enemy, but they know nothing about his motives and goals.

That’s why we are negotiating with the Taliban now, as if we could come to some kind of viable agreement with them. This is a ridiculous idea, and amounts to rewarding Islamic terrorism. The Taliban was the most prolific and deadliest group during Ramadan this year, while those negotiations were going on. And yet the Afghan government recently released 490 Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) fighters and commanders from its prisons in June, as part of a goodwill gesture to persuade the bloodthirsty jihadis to come to stay at the negotiating table.

The desire to negotiate with the Taliban and the complete absence of any training in the enemy ideology both proceed from the same willful ignorance, an ignorance to which far too many people at the upper levels of our government are still committed. Mark Schneider’s story ought to be taken as a cautionary tale (although it will almost certainly not be). During World War II, our soldiers were all given instruction in the Nazi ideology, so that they knew the magnitude of the evil they were facing, and would understand the mindset of those they were facing on the battlefield. For the last twenty years, by contrast, our troops have been flying blind, going into highly dangerous situations without having a clue of what they were up against.

It’s inexcusable.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The Geller Report and author of the bestselling book, FATWA: Hunted in America, as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook.

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Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago

when politicians are bought out by lobbyists for jihadis what do you expect ?

Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d

And their holdovers still support it.

Its all about money. Anyone pays them they will sell out American interests.
china, Iran, qatar even pukistan know it and they have been screwing up America for decades now

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

its worst than that, john apple-seed kerry married into the moolahs, literaly …LOL

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Funny – if it was’nt so serious –

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Remember when Obama purged allot of Generals?
He made sure the pipeline had LEFT people running the show in our military.
Note this was an article from 2013 – MORE were purged!

Obama’s Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years
10/29/13

Defense: What the president calls “my military” is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or disagreement with the administration on matters of policy or force structure, leaving the compliant and fearful.

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, notes

“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and ObamaCare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

(THIS was the MESS Trump has to deal with – a stuffed pipeline of Obama worldview imbeciles.)

For President Obama, the military of a once-feared superpower is an anachronistic vestige of an America whose exceptionalism and world leadership require repeated apologies. It must be gutted and fundamentally transformed into a force wearing gender-neutral headgear only useful for holding the presidential umbrella when it rains. It is to be “his” military and used only for “his” purposes.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Thx 4 this!

BTW, did their oath to, defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and …DOMESTIC? expire as well??

……I have to know. SO I CHECKED.

Does a military oath expire?

Technically, you remain obligated to that service until discharged. Technically it expires once our enlistments/commissions are up. BUT, as Capt Seid Waddell says, our Oath never expires. It is our duty to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.

Looks like those discharged highly trained patriots are sitting on their hands.

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Take a look at #13 of the 45 Goals of the Communists , written in the book “The Naked Communist” in 1958 and entered into the Congressional record in Jan., 1963:
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

My loyalty oath never ended.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

soetoro was and still is an enemy combatant – he should be tried and shot for being a spy during time of war –

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

MARX said they will sell us the rope we will hang ourselves with –

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Hell, Corporate America exported the plants to make the rope to Communist China.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

No kidding – MUELLER got rid of them. Muslims objected to it so Muller removed them.
It offended them. If you as k any serving military person of any rank and they are able to be honest,
they will ALL tell you trying to change a Muslim country to our system with our freedoms is a waste of time, money and lives.

BTW, Bill Clinton was President in 1998, need I say more? He was President for our first WTC attack in 1993 and for the U.S.S. Cole attack in 2000 Obama made sure there was NO training material in Islamic terrorism in the military and brought in Muslims as instructors etc… The enemy is within! and enabled by our own people.

As FBI director, Robert Mueller purged anti-terror training materials deemed ‘offensive’ by CAIR
By World Tribune on August 16, 2017

Mueller’s purge “was part of a broader Islamist operation designed to influence the opinions and actions of persons, institutions, governments and the public at-large,” Judicial Watch said, adding that the records it obtained “show similar incidents of Islamic influence operations” at the Departments of Justice and State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Obama White House.

Judicial Watch said the records it obtained show Mueller was intent of getting rid of “offensive” training documents: “Article is highly inflammatory and inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.”

Mueller himself, Judicial Watch noted, “had previously described the Muslim Brotherhood as a group that supports terrorism in the U.S. and overseas when his agency provided this ludicrous explanation.”

Mueller’s actions while FBI chief “have had a widespread effect because many local law enforcement agencies followed the FBI’s lead in allowing Islamic groups like CAIR to dictate what anti-terrorism material could be used to train officers,” Judicial Watch said.

https://www.worldtribune.com/as-fbi-director-mueller-purged-anti-terror-training-materials-deemed-offensive-by-cair/
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dylan thomas
dylan thomas
4 years ago

this is much more than stupidity, it’s evidence of muslim control of the deep state. no one wants to believe that we are being controlled by muslims at the highest levels of our government, including the military

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
4 years ago
Reply to  dylan thomas

@ Dylan Thomas: You are precisely correct. Not all, but a substantial percentage of the western elites – in particular among the ranks of the globalists – have betrayed their very own nations, people, and civilization in favor of the oldest and most-implacable enemy of the West – Islam. Whereas communism (cultural Marxism) is the dominant ideology of the west today, it has joined forces with Islam in what is termed for brevity, the “Red-Green Alliance,” red being the color emblematic of communism, green being indicative of Islam.

The Muslims, per se, do not control the deep-state. Rather, the globalists who rule the West via the deep-state are in league with Islam. Globalism is transnational in nature, and many of its non-Muslim members – are more loyal to their fellow globalist Sunni Muslim Arabs than to their own kind. The “Red-Green Alliance” controls the deep-state. Where does the red end, and the green begin, or vice-versa?

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a good soldier for globalism for years, but before she was ever a globalist, she was a committed communist. Judging with how friendly she is with Turkish President Erdogan, it would not surprise me if Frau Merkel has already said the shahada and converted to Islam.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

The alliance is only temporary. If this continues it will be communism vs Islam.
The two can not co-exist. Communism does not allow for worship of anything but the state.

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Historically, communism has been atheistic. Although at times, some communist regimes have permitted the practice of various religious traditions when it benefits the state and the party to do so, i.e., such as Stalin allowing the reopening of the Russian Orthodox churches during WWII.

The “Red-Green Alliance” is unlikely, but stranger things have happened in history – and sharing a common enemy – western (Christian) civilization – is a powerful inducement to put aside for at least the present whatever “doctrinal differences” they may have. Once they have vanquished their shared enemy, those other things can be sorted out, shall we say. Until then, the old aphorism applies: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

It is too soon to tell, but we may be witnessing the birth of a new hybrid of the belief systems. Perhaps the Muslims on one hand, and the communists on the other, will be less-inclined to protest when they find that together they are stronger and can realize more of their goals than being apart and hostile to one another.

And in individuals like Barack Hussein Obama, the former President of the U.S., we see the comfortable coexistence of Islam and communism alongside one another. Obama picks-and-chooses from either, neither or both as circumstances dictate, and he seems to be doing rather well for himself based upon that strategy.

Infamous international assassin-for-hire and terrorist, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known to modern readers as “Carlos the Jackal,” was finally caught by the French authorities, charged, and convicted before being incarcerated in a French prison. There, he converted to Islam, and eventually penned a book entitled “Revolutionary Islam” (L’islam révolutionnaire), published in 2003, in which he stated, “only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.”

By the way, Sánchez was/is an admirer of Mr. Obama….

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

Jamie Glazov stated Christians (and Jews) were universally persecuted in the USSR.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
4 years ago

Great article Pam. So long as our leaders fail to understand the enemy we face, innocent lives will be lost and billions of dollars will be wasted on pointless wars and appeasing our enemies.

I’m sure the Muslims are laughing at us in their mosques about how clueless we are for not figuring out their real goals/intentions. They probably think Allah blinded us to give them an easy victory.

Our retarded leaders have doubled down on their mistakes. Europe continues to let the Islamic invaders in by the thousands and they do nothing while Muslims keep raping, robbing and killing.

But the media/politicians/police are intensely focused on ‘hurty words’ (hate speech) used against Muslims online and in public and investigating hijab-grabbing hoaxes and ‘far-right’ terrorism which barely exists.

All the while ignoring real terrorism caused by Muslims. If this trend continues, the West will be conquered within a few decades by Islam.

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
4 years ago
Reply to  Ban Islam

Re: “I’m sure the Muslims are laughing at us in their mosques about how clueless we are for not figuring out
their real goals/intentions. They probably think Allah blinded us to give them an easy victory. Our retarded leaders have doubled down on their mistakes. Europe continues to let the Islamic invaders in by the thousands and they do nothing while Muslims keep raping, robbing and killing.”

Incompetent leaders ignorant of the nature of Islam would be bad-enough, but unfortunately the problem is much worse than that: It isn’t incompetence or ignorance which drive the current transformation of the West, it is treason. A significant percentage of senior political and other leaders, globalists both here and in Europe, have aligned themselves with the Muslims. They have betrayed their native lands, their own peoples and their own civilization, and are now working with the oldest and most-implacable enemies of the West – the Muslims of the Islamic world.

I am speaking of people such as billionaire George Soros, EU President Jean-Claude Juncker, former British PM Teresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Macron. Even Pope Francis has gone over to the “Red-Green Alliance,” and is now working for the globalists. “Red” being the color of communism; “Green” being the color of Islam – hence, the “Red-Green Alliance.”

From the vintage point of the present it seems as if the globalist elites are employing the soldiers of Allah as their shock troops, something like how the Nazis used the SS-Gestapo. The puppet-masters try to keep things natural looking, since the success of their plan depends on stealth, but it is now plain that the elites are quite sympathetic to the Muslims, even as the Saracens wage jihad across Europe, bringing the chaos, death and destruction which always accompany Islam, to a once-peaceful Europe.

If caught, the authorities seem more sympathetic to the Muslims themselves than the victims – the hapless people raped, murdered or otherwise brutalized by their new neighbors. Even when charged, if convicted, the Muslims get a slap on the wrist and are soon out of jail and again causing mayhem. Meanwhile, the so-called “leaders” of places like Germany lecture their besieged people about Islamophobia!

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

A fine example of what so many will do for money and position. You are so right.

Yes we are all but done. Our next generation is theirs (the muzzies) to do with.

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago

More evidence of what I have been saying for the past 20
plus years: the non-Islamic world is refusing to face the clear and present
danger emanating from the Islamic belief system. The effect of that conduct is
suicidal. What will it take for our leaders to come to grips with this
philosophy that mirrors the teachings of Nazism, Fascism and Communism?

Warmac9999
Warmac9999
4 years ago

The movie “Day of the Siege” is a riveting depiction of the evils of Islam and how fortune and godliness was used to combat it. The nature of the enemy is pretty clear, and the stupidity of politicians nearly ended the Christian rule of Vienna. Show that movie to the military.

Pelatiah Adams
Pelatiah Adams
4 years ago

On the positive side, my husband was a Marine for 30 years and didn’t have to be told about the ideology he was fighting. Most military people and families DO read, get it. Which does not excuse the absence of official information. But don’t forget, Pamela, the military is DIRECTED by our civilian politicians. They just execute the orders, they don’t make the policy except at the highest levels, and even then, they must acquiesce to the commander in chief and his civilian staff.

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
4 years ago
Reply to  Pelatiah Adams

@ P. Adams

Yes, the military are required to follow civilian orders, but that does not absolve the senior officer corps. They are taught the difference between lawful and unlawful orders, and their duty is to refuse to obey the latter. However, too many senior military men care more about their next promotion and their pensions than doing what is right. If the armed forces are being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood – as happened under Obama – then those senior officers and NCOs had a duty to warn the American people. If not through official channels, then via unofficial ones.

You probably already know that the defense “I was just following orders” did not work for the German defendants at Nuremberg.

If your husband knew the nature of the threat – I sincerely hope he did everything in his power to the best of his ability to warn policymakers and his fellow citizens.

Unfortunately, the damage was done – some of it well-before Obama, under Clinton and both Bushes. George W. Bush’s White House and Pentagon were, in many respects, no better than Obamas. The House of Saud have owned the Bushes for years. The Clintons, well, you already know who they are. Ever wonder why there are imams in the so-called “chaplain” corps? Blame Bill Clinton.

Of all of the services, the Marine Corps has done the best job of staying truth to their roots and their mission to the American people. Maybe it is because the very first war fought by the newly-independent United States was against the Islamic Barbary states of North Africa.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

Marines are the only branch of our military that did not LOWER physical fitness requirements to accommodate females. Marines are amazing!

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Not really, I believe that it did not accept failures at one time, but now you get do-overs, and overs.

Georgiaboy61
Georgiaboy61
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I was very disappointed to see that the Corps is allowing women into the combat arms and is diluting the standards to allow female Marines to pass selection for platoon leaders, which course has historically been extremely challenging. If the brass have to put their thumb on the scale to get the intended result, women grunts – it isn’t an intellectually or morally honest process anymore. The fix is in, even in the Corps. Same with the U.S. Army Rangers, too.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

False!

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Georgiaboy61

But it took for the powers to be to realize that we, as a country, was giving the muzzies over half our national treasury, yes half, and I wonder why it took as long as it did to act.

It is an interesting story and yet NEVER mentioned.
The congress has been infiltrated with King Georges loyalists since the beginning trying to subvert and subdue our Constitutional agenda, and long after the war of independence, heck the Skull and Crossbones society was and is home up to this day to a subversive sect, think Bush and his cronies.

Pelatiah Adams
Pelatiah Adams
4 years ago

Sorry, but I have to stand up for our military here. We are NOT ignorant.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Don’t talk to Afghani women, they’re just furniture anyway. And the little boys who are screaming while being butt raped? Just ignore them too.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

Islamic Necrophilia: Or, “Every Hole Is a Goal” :: Middle East Forum

https://www.meforum.org › islamic-necrophielia
Feb 8, 2019 – A Muslim man who sexually violated a number of corpses was … parlour before having sex with a woman’s corpse has been jailed for six years.
Why Do Muslims Execute Innocent People?: Islamist Ideology …
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Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

Fifteen teens treated for rabies after GANG RAPING a donkey …

https://www.thesun.co.uk › news › fifteen-teens-treated-for-rabies-after-gang…
Aug 15, 2017 – The stricken youths spent a week in a Moroccan hospital after catching … The innocent donkey has now been put down on the orders of police …

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

LOL. Poor donkey.

capt planit
capt planit
4 years ago

Maybe they should have just shot the donkey rapists and retired the donkey to a field,this day and age the victim gets the raw end of the deal.

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago

What about the goats, the goats?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Those poor goats….You know who likes them….
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santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Ah yes. True romance!!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Hard to believe but people from Germany are asking for asylum in France because they feel unsafe in Germany. .So when will beastality be legalized there? We can’t have unhappy Muslims! It’s all part of that glorious multiculturalism that we must respect…..
Never forget, ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! (Sarcasm off)
http://hardnoxandfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/muzzie1.jpg

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Thats priceless – the goat can be his number one wife – until she brings in a sheep – then its up for grabs lol

capt planit
capt planit
4 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

These Muslims are pulling the wool over everyones eyes whilst wearing a sheepish grin.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Let’s not forget about camels!
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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes, who can leave out those sexy camels!
http://www.thedailyrag.co.uk/man-sentenced-after-sex-with-camel/

patd
patd
4 years ago

Those without a functioning brain cell believe that muslims will coexist with non-muslims….they won’t!!! All muslims are terrorist or support terrorist!

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
4 years ago

Ignorance of islam is no excuse.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Pray Hard

Unfortunately most people will not take the time and trouble to look for facts and willingly believe what others tell them. Plus many don’t want to believe Islam is so hideous because the consequences are horrendous when they dominate a country.

santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago

Our troops are not being trained on islamic idealogy for a reason. It is not because of ignorance by military leaders, or gov officials. It is by design. They know what they are doing and have the blood of thousands of our troops on their hands because of it.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

False!!!

Exclusive: Senior U.S. General Orders Top-to-Bottom Review of Military’s Islam Training
04.24.12

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/military-islam-training/

THE CHAIRMAN OF the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to ensure it doesn’t contain anti-Islamic content, Danger Room has learned. The order came after the Pentagon suspended a course for senior officers that was found to contain derogatory material about Islam.

The extraordinary order by General Martin Dempsey, the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces, was prompted by content in a course titled “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” that was presented as an elective at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. The course instructed captains, commanders, lieutenant colonels and colonels from across all four armed services that “Islam had already declared war on the West,” said Lt. Gen. George Flynn, Dempsey’s deputy for training and education.

“It was inflammatory,” Flynn told Danger Room on Tuesday. “We said, ‘Wait a second, that’s really not what we’re talking about.’ That is not how we view this problem or the challenges we have in the world today.”

The strong response by the Pentagon brass illustrates growing sensitivity around the issue since Danger Room’s investigation of anti-Islam material in the FBI’s counterterrorism training last September. That story sparked strong condemnation of the training material from the U.S. Attorney General on down, and prompted the White House to order a review of U.S. counterterrorism training last October.

Despite that White House order, the “Perspectives” course, taught since 2004, not only evaded review, but had defenders in the Joint Forces Staff College that taught it.

Danger Room first learned about the course last month, and determined that one of its guest lecturers was Stephen Coughlin, who has taught FBI and U.S. Army audiences that Islamic law is a danger to U.S. national security. We sought comment from a representative for the Joint Forces Staff College, who defended the propriety of the course.

Lynn D
Lynn D
4 years ago

Why does this not surprise me???.. GW Bush cemented the TERRIBLE LIE that Islam is a religion of peace….. Then Western leaders took the notion that since Islam was a abrahaimic faith, it was not that much different from Christianity and Judaism.. Another thing that compounded the problem was believing that Muslims share the same values as Western people. a kind of western arrogance. Yet another problem was the belief that everyone in the world had IQ’s in the same range…Western naiveity… No wonder ME wars are such a sh*tstorn for allied troops… I’m curious to know, did this man find out for himself what Islam was all about?

Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen
4 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

You are 100% correct in everything you said. It is compete folly to think all people are the same. I often shake my head when conservatives try to show how horribly democom policies and leadership have failed by pointing out Detroit, Baltimore, etc. There is no doubt liberal policies make things worse in almost every situation, but that is really not the main cause of it. No one dares point out the obvious however, with the PC insanity that cripples us. Muslims will never have a decent civilization if we remain there for 100 years.

Our leaders in the 19th and early 20th century were either far more intelligent than the ones of today, or they were not crippled by PC insanity.

I honestly hate and despise young Bush. Without his blind stupidity we would never have the Muslim problem and without Bush I doubt we would have ever elected Obama, who just accelerated the insanity started by Bush.

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Jensen

Yes and no, the Repulicans that ran were so weak as to come across as too dumb to hold the office.
Remember this is the culmination of two centuries of subversive indoctrination of both simple-minded adults and open-minded children.

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

Well, when you marry your first cousin for many generations the results are predictable.
https://vdare.com/posts/cousin-marriage-it-s-badcomment image

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
4 years ago

The west is committed to a belief that that if society is indoctrinated to accept that “a Trojan horse is not a Trojan Horse” and to believe other wise, or even be suspicious is to be Islamophobic….than Islam will conquer and murder with ease.

byronmullet
byronmullet
4 years ago

My tweet to the president this morning: Potus, how about if we respond ideologically to this drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil refinery for a change instead of militarily? Please read this short scholarly analysis of Islam for ideas: https://t.co/p8PyxKlHNT it won’t cost us a penny and would be the most effective.

byronmullet
byronmullet
4 years ago

Multiculturalism is why America and the West refuses to call out Islam, or as this article says why we won’t train troops in the duplicity of their ideology. Multiculturalism is why the left push’s open borders immigration. The left has become just as duplicitious as Islam. Our leaders, preachers and teachers refuse to call their ideology out as well. In fact gives them their children to raise on school curriculums replete with leftist secularist globalist socialist ideology and Muslim appreciation, much like conquered lands gave Rome their children to raise so they wouldn’t rise up against them. and may be why the Bible says in the end times there will be a rebirth of the Roman Empire. Waking them up is akin to trying to wake the dead.

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago

On Wikiislam one can research that the Muhammadist texts tell that unjust Muhammad said: “Who doesn’t eat during Ramadan is not a Muslim. He can be killed.”
So the Ramadan-fasting can be viewed as selection method: who is a Muhammadist & who a target.

It’s important to know Muhammadism as it influences Muhammadists who have power over people.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali for example has a video on Youtube where she tells in an interview that declitorization wouldn’t be in the Koran & only mentioned in the Hadiths by a 3rd generation Caliph Omar.
Truth is as can be researched on Wikiislam (Wikislam – FGM) the Hadiths show that unjust Muhammad commanded the torture of declitorization for all Muslim women.

Also today Africans are enslaved from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania because of unjust Muhammad’s ideology who said that his unproven deity turned Africans black so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs and Turks (Wikiislam – racism).

The article says that during world-war 2 soldiers were taught the Nazi-ideology. I don’t think so.
The Nazis were Islamic. I don’t think they were teached that.

Ken Kruger
Ken Kruger
4 years ago

Its called the culture of PC which has infected our military even since
the late 1970’s when Carter deemed it necessary to force the military to be
a vehicle and leading edge of social change in this country. I was in the
Navy until 1988 and this culture was one of the reasons that I
resigned my commission. Granted, it got a lot better when Reagan became
president, but the seeds of this harmful dogma was never rooted out
fully and mostly infected the minds of the careerist officers. Famous
military men such as Gen Patton or Adm Bull Halsey would have been pariahs
even 50 years ago. So sad that the real power in the military is with the
lawyers and their enablers…the mostly clueless/control-obsessed
politicians.

Fuggitabowdit
Fuggitabowdit
4 years ago
Reply to  Ken Kruger

And yet, you can’t name the BETTER candidate to have won the Presidency, during these time periods. It’s too bad that you didn’t run, Nitz. You couldn’t possibly be any worse than the present crop of low-down, lying, loser, lefty libtaard, Dimms. Actually the “blame game” you are playing is NONSENSE. I don’t know if you are just simple-minded, or just a hateful, lefty TOOL. I lean towards some of both. Yes, you are right that there is ALWAYS blame to be allotted following such incidents, but THAT would go DIRECTLY on the heads if the US Commanders. I’ll simplify for you, Nitz. “Force Protection” is always the responsibility of the LOCAL commander. That would be: 1) Marine Baracks, Lebanon 1983, Lt. Col. Larry Gerlach. Guards did have loaded mags. Suicide bomber was shot dead but truck had already breached concertina wire barrier and rolled into entryway. 2) Khobar Towers 1996, USAF Gen. Schwalier who had been warned of several incidents of Tower surveillance just prior, Jihadis parked bomb-laden truck at chain-link fence perimeter, 70ft. from bldg, and drove away in another vehicle, 3) USS Cole, Commander Kirk Lippold, during refueling ops, failed to establish secure perimeter. These are incidents that immediately come to mind where the immediate commander was derelict in Force Protection responsibilities. Evidently, you think the President is omnipotently appearing worldwide, walking the halls at every military installation and ship, Project Managing every minute detail….even though he ISN’T a trained military man….LOL…???????? That being said, the Commander-in-Chief IS responsible for when, how or if we respond to certain provocations, but THAT’S an entirely different kettle of fish.
++MAGA!++????

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Fuggitabowdit

Don’t be too hard on him/them they have gotten the idea that the CIC is the final word, in the field it is the CO.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Fuggitabowdit

The USS Cole attack was facilitated by a muslum US sailor who gave ship berthing information to Al Qaida.

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Ken Kruger

Patton died because of his animosity. His story is a must read as is President Hoovers bio, it really opens the door to the inner workings of the Roosevelt administration the real anti-American socialists and his CPA advisors.

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago
Reply to  Ken Kruger

Be careful. bullets would not have made a difference. the guards tried to stop the truck, they were not prepared for that to happen. I worked with one of the victims, they had no idea of what happened until they were recovering in the hospital.
Also keep in mind that in WW II the troops turned in their guns before turning in for the night. Because of this standing order they were caught off guard and many were killed when they were over run by the last Japanese on Iwo Jima, one of my uncles got a Silver Star there by using a bulldozer to shield a group of guys while he sealed up the enemy within their caves. Three brothers were in the war of the Pacific and in Korea at lease one was called up. And I thought 11 months in Viet Nam was hell, (it was) Thanks Mr. Johnson

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  imwithstoopid

‘Also keep in mind that in WW II the troops turned in their guns before turning in for the night.’ I can’t see that happening for the soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge or the paratroopers during Montgomery’s Operation Market Garden.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

liberal officers

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  Ken Kruger

I was in the Navy in the 1970s and I did not see any PC, but no doubt that Jimmy Carts with his Communist adviser began to bring it in. Mika’s is daughter. No doubt it went full force when William Antonio Gramsci Clinton was elected. Thank your fiends who vote Democrat for destroying the country. It save the Russians money. Until Clinton was elected I had never hear of the Frankfurt School or Gramsci. Consider the Governor’s School he created. Right out of Gramsci and people handed their children to it.

Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
4 years ago

A programmed dereliction of duty. There should be courts martial and punishments for top leadership that promoted this treasonous failure.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Can’t identify/recognize your enemy? Then you lose.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

then you die… The enemy is in the demo partycomment image

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

looks like a whole bunch of bacha bazi

leonore35
leonore35
4 years ago

Negotiating with any jihadist (or any Muslim group for that matter) groups is just like negotiating with Hitler in the late 1930’s. Every concession is regarded as weakness or deference due to Islam and any treaty will soon be broken as like Hitler they are liars and without honour. They also have absolutely no respect for non Muslims

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
4 years ago

What’s REALLY ridiculous was not only that they were not taught about the vile ideology of the “enemy” Muslim terrorists but they also weren’t taught that it’s the same vile ideology as their Muslim “allies.” They should have been taught never to trust any Muslim including a so-called “ally,” who will smile in your face and then slit your throat. We are never defending FREEDOM when fighting on any one side of any war between Muslims…we are only trying to get rid of the most devout religious Muslims. Maybe we should think of our American troops fighting on behalf of one group of Muslims in a war between Muslims as the modern day equivalents of the Ottoman Sultan’s Janissaries (an elite corps of slaves made up of kidnapped young Christian boys who were converted to Islam). The American dhimmi forces of Janissaries of today must submit to Islam nonetheless even if not converted.
I suppose this is the best that we can do since there are 1.6 billion infidel-hating Muslims in the world who adhere to the same Manifesto of Hate known as the Quran.
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gfmucci .
gfmucci .
4 years ago

The duration of our warring, billions spent, and thousands of lives wasted with no end in sight and no positive result to claim bear witness to the willful ignorance of our leaders and approach.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Our military has sustained many unneeded deaths and injuries as a direct response of this blatant refusal of our military leaders to provide the required instruction on Islam to our brave soldiers. When you combine this deliberate malfeasance with rules of engagement that are unrealistic and place men in danger at all times. Then, they all fear to cross the line and being prosecuted for murder by some Obamatype SJW posing as a JAG officer. This has already cost us 1000’s of lives and trillions of dollars. And, it all starts in our schools where our children are taught from texts that only report the fake “glories” of Islam and not the truth that it has waged war on civilization for 1440 years and counting. A continuous war that has led to hundreds of millions of deaths, huge loss of resources, and created a world where 1.5 billion adherents of Islam live in poverty, chaos, and ignorance.A world where not a single significant accomplishment in the sciences or technology has emerged in the last 1000 years. There can be no further dispute among men and women of goodwill that the time has arrived for Christians and Jews to our senses and annihilate this curse from our world once and for all.

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

The high level of suicides and stress that servicemen accrued is directly (in my mind) attributed to the PC culture and the fact that soldiers were supposed to fight terrorists, but charged if they accidentally killed unarmed people. So a terrorist could just drop their weapon after running around a corner, and all of a sudden, not be a combatant. How can our policies possibly work when the soldiers have to work under those conditions?

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

You are absolutely right – its as if we offend these psychopaths by not adhering to their fuc— RIDICULOUS ” cultural norms ” and that somehow by supposedly not ” offending ” them every thing will be hunky dory..Look at it like this how many muslims in emigrating here actually go out of their way to not ” offend ” US AMERICANS – No the Ps OS come here and expect,demand that – we – acquiesce …Even the Afghan Govt kow tows – They won’t be ” governing ” much longer.Islam has been fighting EVERYONE for the past 1400 years – We won’t change that by ” honoring ” their ludicrous cultural ” norms ” I’d be damned if i was going to go hungry over some BS QUASI ” RELIGION ” –

RobertLaity
RobertLaity
4 years ago

REMEMBER ONE THING ABOUT ISLAM. IT IS ANATHEMA!!!

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

LOL, that was gr8.

cammo99
cammo99
4 years ago

There has always been an “Arab” group in State and DOD domains. It has been written off as the cost of doing business for oil. Which we may feel the crunch if the Saudi’s do not make good their efforts to restore production in the wake of the Houthi attacks. As a military retiree I still occasionally meet decidedly antisemitic and anti Israel service people despite the mythology of the Jews owning the USA. Some see the existence of Israel as a bum in the road, others even see it as a disaster, Others such as myself see Israel as the last hope for any kind of future for the region. And it can not be had at the cost of Jewish and Christian genocide and Dhimmitude.
Afghan has been a special almost unique problem, because it is so xenophobic, but still hold onto 7th century theology, and unable to distinguish time seem to believe the Crusades only ended a few years ago. It seems to be the land that time forgot in a bad way.

pete1589
pete1589
4 years ago

An additional question would be appropriate. Has anyone read the history of the Catholic Church in repelling Islam from the European continent since Islam began invading? Try the Battle of Tours, La Reconquista of El Cid, King Philip and Queen Isabella, the Crusades (a defensive action after 700 years of Islamic invasion), the miraculous naval battle of Lepanto, or the Gates of Vienna on for size. Today, the Catholic Church post Vatican II is so apologetic toward Islam you’d think 1,400 years of education has been flushed down the toity.

pete1589
pete1589
4 years ago
Reply to  pete1589

Because YOU say so. Right, I get it. Almighty Science, tactics and skills are the sole answer to the barely seen premise all our woes are based on. Listen, pray the Rosary. Yeah, right, a worldling is going to take me up on the challenge, riiiiiiight. I’ve had Hell inflicted upon me TWICE by the Almighty and He is totally disgusted with us who give Him not a thought in passing, let alone a constant prayer life.

On Oct. 13, 1884 Pope Leo XIII was finishing Mass at his private chapel in the Vatican and the Almighty opened up the veil between the natural world and the supernatural, and he was gifted with the grace of hearing the voices of Christ and satan debating whether satan could destroy the Catholic Church. The Lord asked him what he needed, and satan replied 75 to 100 years and more power over those who give themselves to my power. Christ granted it.

33 years later, TO THE DAY, the Miracle of the Sun occurs in Fatima.

59 years later, Pope John XXIII opens up Vatican II and the result was 79 prayers extracted from the Mass, in particular the Exorcism Prayer of St. Michael, and the ranks of the Magisterium were filled by Freemasons, communists and homosexual predators. Busy guy, satan, eh?

St. Padre Pio, a Capuchim monk who got the stigmata from Christ, could read your heart’s secrets and could bilocate, or be in 2 places simultaneously, and, as a gay former friend of mine who was compelled to visit him in 1968 shortly before the saint’s death found out all the preceding was true, and was told by the saint he could continue his homosexual antics and go straight to Hell at death, or abandon the practices and become a prince of the Church, or a cardinal, said with his saintly authority that if the demons infesting the earth had corporeal bodies they would blot out the sky!

Yup, satan is unleashed, the gay pride, black pride and feminist pride are his own creations and no one is the wiser. Yeah, that “dead” Church has no power? Naw, the Church is plenty powerful. But the faith is dead.

Exactly as Christ said it would in the last days, right, in Luke 18:8? “… Think ye, when the Son of man returns, He will find Faith?”

As you amply demon-strate, nope, no faith in the least.

pete1589
pete1589
4 years ago
Reply to  pete1589

About what, exactly?

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago

Because they are Islamist’s and are counter to all we believe in.
I oppose them even more because of our “so-called” leaders are so obviously brain dead and culturally ignorant as to make my head explode. Has there ever in our history been a more blatant example of greed and anti American pro Communist group of people?
Also because they have willfully spent the last three years misdirecting our congress and citizens away from the real problems (them) this country.
Trump has done nothing to expose these people and their useful idiots.
The G.O.P. has become all but useless,hiding behind a flag that they believe is theirs and not ours.
Anyone out there believe that our National Guard will stand behind us when the time comes? Check on how we / they have been recruiting Muslims, or how about the local police departments.
Just how many of your neighbors have you dared to talk to about the problem? I’ll bet not too many of you. I tried and found as many brainwashed as I tried to talk to.
Need I go on? Of course but take for example all of the Conservative writers, speakers, and sites. Know who they are talking to, us believers, not the opposition that knows that the Religion of Peace is wonderful and full of love our God.

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