And the magic number is ... 19:
Criticisms of post-9/11 efforts to protect the United States from attack range from claims that America is more vulnerable than ever to the contention that the transnational terrorist danger is vastly over-hyped.[1] A review of publicly available information on at least 19 terrorist conspiracies thwarted by U.S. law enforcement suggests that the truth lies somewhere in between these two arguments.
Decisions decisions ... Umma or America? ...Umma or America?:
Mr. Islam reportedly told the Joint Staff's Maj. Coughlin to soften his criticism of the Brotherhood's ISNA and, when the latter refused, defamed him as "a Christian zealot with a pen." Some accounts add that it was a "poison" pen. Since Maj. Coughlin is not giving his side of the story to the press, it may require a congressional subpoena to get it properly told.What is known, however, is that shortly after this exchange, the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not renew Maj. Coughlin's contract, which will expire at the end of March. Mr. Gertz reports the Chiefs deemed it "too hot" to retain the services of a man widely believed to be the military's most knowledgeable expert on the Islamist ideology of our enemies.
Unfortunately, the sacking of Stephen Coughlin is not only a scandal in its own right. It is a window into a variety of actions that cry out for congressional investigations. These include:
Buried deep within a dust coated filing cabinet in a rarely visited basement office at the headquarters of the Fatwa Bureau of Investigation sit the Jihad Files. The J-Files are a collection of bizarre and unexplained cases; files filled with the paranormal or baffling. These long forgotten files, that more often than not, deal with dark elements of the Great Satan, suddenly came to light after 9/11. Now, the skeptical Special Agent Fox Mu’huldir, and the devoted believer, Special Agent Dana Scuhli, have been assigned to uncover the secrets of these long buried mysteries. The J-Files have been re-opened, but there are forces more powerful than can possibly be imagined aligning themselves to keep the truth hidden. But the truth is out there.
Put your War on Islamic Totalitarianism links in the comments.
Better here than on a thread below Here we Gogh again . Gonna be an interesting week in Eurabia .
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 22, 2008 8:29 PMislam schmislam.
all on dubya's shift eh?
or maybe the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing? nope. left hand full aware. its the 'right' hand that's totally in the dark and has been since inauguration day 2000.
with friends like that . . .
cue the sychophants !!!
Posted by: mr 1400 at January 22, 2008 8:57 PM"sychophants"
Maybe we should cue the literacy training for the moronic left?
Posted by: dean spencer - fox at January 22, 2008 9:00 PMSorry , gonna be an interesting week in Eurabia ....three months from now .
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 22, 2008 9:02 PMBill D. Cat,
At your LGF link the article on that site mentions a
meeting in Madrid called "...the Alliance of Civilisations, an international forum aimed at reducing tensions between the Islamic world and the West."
WTF is that? Sounds like a forum for the indoctrination of the dhimmitudes.
Posted by: OttRob at January 22, 2008 9:10 PM OttRob,
WTF is that? Sounds like a forum for the indoctrination of the dhimmitudes.
Sounds like a HRC ...
To be serious though , the Dutch seem to keep stepping up to the plate , and keep getting killed or driven underground . With what's going on here ... are we really that far behind ?
"Mr. Gertz reports the Chiefs deemed it "too hot" to retain the services of a man widely believed to be the military's most knowledgeable expert on the Islamist ideology of our enemies."
Seems to me, this is probably why they are sacking him - too much knowledge is code for 'he knows too much'......if you know what I mean.
Let me expand on my above comment . The Dutch are getting picked off one by one because at this point they are isolated voices trying to fight battles , instead of wars . Violence aside there is no difference as to what's happening there ,and what's happening here (via a vis the HRC fiasco ) . Time to get together on this Canada , 'cause the clock , she is a ticking . If we as a society continue to appease and applaud the actions of radicalised Islam we are as responsible as they of out plight .
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 22, 2008 9:31 PM...OUR plight ...
Preview is my friend .
More on Coughlin from ibloga.blogspot.com:
"GERTZ- Coughlin was being accused “falsely” of talking “out of school to the press.” As is his wont, Gertz gets to the heart of the matter: “But defense and military officials supportive of Mr. Coughlin said the real reason is that critics, like Mr. Islam. want him sidelined because they oppose his hard-to-refute views on the relationship between Islamic law and Islamist jihad doctrine. Those views have triggered a harsh debate challenging the widespread and politically correct view of Islam as a religion of peace hijacked by extremists.”
"And what of Mr. Coughlin's crimes? He quotes Saudi textbooks like this ....
Then, from a translated 2005-2006 school-year edition of the 12th grade Saudi school textbook (already sanitized due to U.S. State Department pressure), one finds the requirements of jihad:
• Scholars have noted that jihad is obligatory for the individual in three cases:
o (2) If the infidels attack a specific country, it is obligatory for its people to fight them and repel them. Self-defense is a duty. Allah said, "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors."
• When is battle jihad in the path of Allah?
To fulfill an order from God, sacrifice in His path, spread the creed of monotheism, defend the realms of Islam and Muslims, and raise up the Word of Allah. This is jihad in the path of God.
• Jihad continues until the Day of Resurrection.It is part of God's wisdom that he made the clash between truth and falsehood continue until the Day of Resurrection. As long as this clash endures, jihad continues. It is not limited to a specific time. As long as there is falsehood, error, and unbelief, the jihad
continues.
"The three items enumerated above lay the foundation for extremist” claims.
To my knowledge no Islamic leaders WITH THE EXCEPTION of the much maligned Hisham Kabbani, have authoritatively refuted the ideas that Coughlin has simply REPEATED and PUBLICIZED.
Apparently our own government has yet to come to 'peace' with the idea that at best, the teachings which mandate that they hate us for our freedoms because we make up our own laws rather than follow what they consider to be god's, is what remains as the taught, predominant, unchallenged Islam we face."
I also understand that a Senate committee is now looking into the firing.
The words of the Hadith:
"The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!"
Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi on his weekly TV show, Sept. 12, 2004:
"We are waging this cruel war with the brothers of the monkeys and pigs, the Jews and the sons of Zion The Jews will fight you and you will subjugate them. Until the Jew will stand behind the tree and rock. And the tree and rock will say: oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
Can it be anymore clear that the Islamic trilogy incites racism, hatred, violence and mass-murder?
This is exactly what the hissing snakes of Islam are furiously attempting to cover up through silencing critics, firings, legal jihad, taqiyya, kitman, and outrageously false memes, such as 'religion of peace,' etc.
Where is the HRC on this?
Posted by: irwin daisy at January 22, 2008 11:46 PMIrwin daisy: Until the HRC's lawyers can charge major billable hours to towlheads and rugriders, that just isn't going to happen. (Come to think of it- sending perhaps a hundred lawyers to Af'stan to drum up a little bizness with the jihadis..........hey...........why not?)
Posted by: sheik yerbootie at January 23, 2008 1:35 AMYo, sheik. Last I heard, they were Arabs and Muslims, not towelheads and rugriders.
You are either a very intolerant person, or you are trolling and trying to incite SDA'ers to spew bigotry.
Either way, it is unacceptable, and you should stop posting here.
Idiot!
Posted by: kingstonlad at January 23, 2008 8:17 AM(Via Center for Security Policy) Maj. Stephen Coughlin, "To Our Great Detriment": Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad (Master's thesis, National Defense Intelligence College)
333 pages, 2.37 MB
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080107_Coughlin_ExtremistJihad.pdf
Posted by: Charles MacDonald at January 23, 2008 9:18 AMThanks Kingston ... my thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Paul2 at January 23, 2008 9:22 AMHere's a view from the other side:
defining a muslim Left II: The Gash of Civilizations
I love his term "jafi": "just another frothing Islamophobe."
It's worth re-reading the first post in the series (from last October):
defining a Muslim Left: part I
Posted by: Charles MacDonald at January 23, 2008 12:11 PM