Re: West Point and the Grand Lie

Recently the West Point Military Academy denied retired LTG Jerry
Boykin, a
candid speaker about Islam, a chance to be at a prayer breakfast at
West
Point.
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he voluntarily bowed out

On Feb 6, 3:25 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   The Grand Lie and West Point
>
> Recently the West Point Military Academy denied retired LTG Jerry Boykin, a
> candid speaker about Islam, a chance to be at a prayer breakfast at West
> Point. The usual suspects not only didn't want any discussion that might
> involve Islam, they didn't even want someone who had spoken about it in the
> past.
>
> U.S. Army doctrine "instructs Army leaders to
> respect<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=873100&act=6V...>[emphasis
> added] the Muslim culture as a part of counterinsurgency
> operations," VoteVets said in a letter to West Point Superintendent
> Lieutenant General David Huntoon. Boykin's past remarks "threaten our
> relationship with Muslims around the world, and thereby, our troops serving
> in harm's way," said VoteVets, which represents veterans of the wars in
> Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> This is not the first time that our military has rejected someone who knows
> about the doctrine and history of Islam from speaking. The first causality
> was Steve Coughlin<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=873100&act=6V...>in
> 2008 under George Bush. Steve is an expert on Sharia and Islamic war
> doctrine who worked at the Pentagon. He was terminated after a complaint by
> a Muslim.
>
> For an illustration of the "know nothing about Islam" doctrine see General
> Stanley McChrystal's Afghanistan war
> strategy<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=873100&act=6V...>that
> made no mention of Islamic war doctrine.
>
> At least our military is consistent over time. They know nothing about
> Islamic war doctrine. They see nothing. They hear nothing. They think
> nothing. They speak nothing. And they will not listen to anyone who does,
> not even one meeting.
>
> It is odd that an organization devoted to war, fighting and conflict cannot
> even stage a discussion, much less a debate, about what part Islamic
> doctrine plays in Islamic war. But, no, our military commanders have taken
> up the position that there is only one view of Islam, that which pleases
> Islam, that of a dhimmi, and that any position that is not submissive to
> Islam is bigotry. [An editorial observation: the higher you go in rank, the
> more PC the officer becomes. The lower ranks are much more enlightened
> about Islam.]
>
> Our military fully subscribes to the Grand Lie of Islam—there is only one
> valid view of Islam, that which pleases Muslims.
>
> But, there are three views of Islam, not one. Take the example of the day
> that Mohammed murdered 800 male Jews in Medina, after he sold off the women
> for slaves and adopted the Jewish children into Muslim families. What was
> the nature of this event? There are three views:
>
> • For Muslims this was a day of absolute good as Islam triumphed over the
> evil Jews who had denied the prophet-hood of Mohammed.
> • For Kafirs (non-Muslims) this was an act of evil.
> • Then there is the view of the apologist for Islam—let's not be
> judgmental. That was then, and this is now. Christians have done worse.
>
> Our military has adopted the view of the apologist, the Grand Lie. To be
> fair, they have been pushed into the PC camp by their civilian bosses. It
> is just that somehow, you hope that men, who can fight a war that goes
> "bang", could also fight a war of ideas that goes "think". Whatever
> happened to: "Know the enemy"?
>
> Instead we have a military doctrine of "respect" for Islam. How about
> trading in respect for full knowledge of the jihad doctrine and
> civilizational war? Who has ever heard of the military (or police) ever
> using any knowledge found in Koran about war? The Koran of Medina devotes
> 24% to jihad, 9% overall. The Sira (Mohammed's biography) devotes 67% of
> its text to jihad and 21% of Bukhari's Hadith is devoted to jihad. Nearly a
> third of the Trilogy is about jihad.
>
> You think that the Taliban and al Qaeda don't read Koran, Sira and Hadith?
> General SK Malik of the Pakistani army wrote a book, *The Quranic Concept
> of War*, that is REQUIRED reading of ALL general staff officers in
> Pakistan. A favorite quote: "Whatever the form or type of strategy directed
> against the enemy, it must, in order to be effective, be capable of
> striking terror into the hearts of the enemy."
>
> Hello, Pentagon, FBI, CIA, DEA, DHS and the rest, the clue phone is
> ringing, pick it up. Stop respecting Islam by code and really respect Islam
> and study its doctrine of war. Read the Sira first. Read the jihad hadiths
> next. Finally, read the Koran of Medina. Meditate on civilizational war.
> Then invite LTG Jerry Boykin back to speak.
> ------------------------------
>
> Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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