U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' Tactics For 'Total War' On Islam

This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. (STAFF/AFP/Getty Images)

Wired:

The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a "total war" against the world's 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of "Hiroshima" to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the "civilian population wherever necessary."

Read the whole story at Wired

Comments

[Truthtopower2012]

01:03 PM on 08/12/2012

If you read the article, the details are chilling, it describes a group of people who, over the last ten years, have gained influence and career status within the military and the manuals used are hate literature written by Israeli-American authors. Daniel Pipes. Raphael Israeli.

A quote from the article by the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley:

"It is therefore time for the United States to make our true intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated. Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.”

Essentially their investigation reveals a complete take over of your military by pro-Israeli genocidal terrorists.

Im confident this wont make it past the moderators but, we'll see.

[NancyNaive]

03:41 PM on 05/18/2012

The US military was co-opted by the Evangelicals in the 1990s. We're done for.

[Aeryn Reid]

03:19 PM on 05/18/2012

Meanwhile in Syria, activists today said regime forces (choose violent act from drop-down menu) killing (##) children and (###) women (insert either "unarmed" or "innocent", alternating).
Opposition spokesman (Mohammed Doe) says shelling overnight (select past tense violence verb) + refugees +deepening humanitarian crisis. Add UN observer closing, date. Publish, repeat. Oh wait, we are slapping the pentagon in this article? I thought we needed them to intervene in Damascus? ;)

[Anybodyseenthepopos]

12:21 AM on 05/14/2012

So the Pentagon took the Jihadi Manual and swapped our name for theirs and their name for ours.

[Aeryn Reid]

03:06 PM on 05/18/2012

Be careful, Citizen L.J. Erikson will scold you with a not at all pompous bit of erudition ex thesarum! *lol* ;)

[BlackWidowPilot]

09:59 PM on 05/18/2012

Can you actually refute anything I've written with actual facts, rather than juvenile ad hominem attempts at humor?

Do tell.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[Anybodyseenthepopos]

04:17 AM on 05/19/2012

I hate to admit it, but that went right over my head.

[Truthtopower2012]

01:13 PM on 08/12/2012

Did you read the list of the authors and books used in the manual of hate?

Daniel Pipes. Raphael Israeli.

Complete take over of the American military is what the article uncovered.

[971]

09:48 AM on 05/13/2012

In the future, all Americans will work for the Pentagon.

[Wak Yunus]

10:38 AM on 05/13/2012

Imam Shafi asked "Which is better for the believer - To be tested and tried, or to be firmly established?" So he exclaimed: "Woe to you! How can firm establishment come before hardships and tests!?

"Indeed, Iman is not simply a word that is said; Rather, it is a reality that ensues burdens, a trust which has heavy responsibilities, and a Jihad that requires patience, and a struggle that requires endurance. So it is not enough for the people to say: 'We believe,' and to be left alone merely due to this claim. Rather, they must be exposed to trials and be firm in the face of those trials and come out of them in a purified state - with sincere hearts - just as the fire tries gold in order to do away with the worthless elements that are attached to it. (And this the linguistic origin of the word, which has its implications.). And likewise trials and difficulties build up in the heart, in regards to emaan

"And We have tested those who came before them and Allah will certainly make known those who are truthful, and He will certainly make known the liars". [Al-Ankabut: 1-3]

[971]

11:48 AM on 05/13/2012

Hey Jack@ss, you might want to look into the teachings of Jesus.

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

07:23 AM on 05/13/2012

If Tantawi is a genuine reformed Moslem who has given up Islam's destructive supremacist heritage then good for him. If not then this ruling is pure deception like Ayatollah Khamenei issuing a fatwa declaring nuclear weapons immoral when his scientiists are busy building the bomb.

[Truthtopower2012]

01:14 PM on 08/12/2012

Please provide credible,verifiable sources for you lies.

Thank you.

[kodimirpal]

10:38 AM on 05/12/2012

@Jan There is no reply option to reply Mr. Jan's contention that well known Muslim scholars support death for apostasy. Please read the following

Sheikh Tantawi is a leading cleric in Egypt and what he has to say on apostasy

Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
[Grand Imam of al-Azhar since 1996]

"Shaykh Tantawi's ruling on the subject of a Muslim apostasizing has certainly shed new light on this subject, while making the non-Muslims realise that Islam is a religion of moderation.

To Shaykh Tantawi, a Muslim who renounced his faith or turned apostate should be left alone as long as he does not pose a threat or belittle Islam.

If the Muslims were forced to take action against the apostate, he said it should NOT be because he or she had given up the faith but because he or she had turned out to be an enemy or a threat to Islam.

Shaykh Tantawi, in his views, shows clearly how simple and moderate Islam is, a religion that is tolerant and not coercive on anybody.

Shaykh Tantawi repeatedly stresses the need for Muslims to acquire traditional Islamic knowledge as well as the modern ones so that they could add to the strength of the Muslim community to defend the religion." [Introduction of Grand Imams of Al-Azhar]

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

04:42 PM on 05/13/2012

Is this what you call moderation in Islam? It's anything but. In fact, it's just the same old Moslem intolerance disguised as moderation. True moderate Islam can only mean reform, progress, liberaliztion, evolution. For a ruling on apostasy to be truly "moderate" respecting the right of the apostate to leave Islam it would have to protect his/her God given right of free speech which would include his/her right to proslytize Moslems. For what good is a ruling like this when any Moslem who falsely accuses the apostate of blaspheming Islam or proselytizing believers is almost certain to face imprisonment, corporal punishment or death? If an Egyptian Moslem converts to another faith he/she better hide it or risk retribution.

[kodimirpal]

10:24 AM on 05/14/2012

Prophet Muhammad
Isaac Newton
Jesus Christ
Buddha
Confucius
St. Paul
Ts'ai Lun
Albert Einstein
Louis Pasteur
Galileo Galilei
Aristotle
Moses
Charles Darwin
Martin Luther
Nicolaus Copernicus
George Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Fleming
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Thomas Jefferson
Lao Tzu
Voltaire
John F. Kennedy
Vasco da Gama
Zoroaster
Mahavira
Niels Bohr

Michael Hart's book includes all kinds of leaders. It is up to individuals to judge them based on their achievements. As you say on your post not every one is a negative role model. I strongly feel that you need a massive change in your attitude and approach to personalities and their work. Most of your words are prejudicialy emotive due to vilification and hatred

http://amaana.org/ismailim.html

[kodimirpal]

10:24 AM on 05/12/2012

http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=30369&lan=en&sp=0&isNew=0&partner=rss&emc=rss

Shawnee Mission, Kansas - To many non-Muslims, it might come as a surprise to learn that Islam is not a monolithic religion.

Practices and observances can and do vary from region to region and from group to group.

And headlines in mainstream media, particularly in Western countries, tend to emphasise the less flattering, repressive aspects attributed to minority groups while ignoring the many positive aspects of Islam’s mainstream majority.

A new book, Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty authored by Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol, however, helps correct a great many of those misconceptions, focusing especially on the misperception that Islam is an inherently authoritarian religion with little room for individual freedom.

The work is a search for the roots of liberalism (in the classic sense) within Islam and a critique of the oppressive laws and attitudes within the religion – such as bans on apostasy or blasphemy – which the writer argues are based on tradition rather than revelation

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

07:32 AM on 05/13/2012

But the dangerous and destructive principle that unites most Moslems across the Islamic divide is supremacism: the belief in Islam's absolute political, legal and religious supremacy over other faiths, and its divine destiny to conquer the world by violent and non-violent means.

[draymusa]

03:47 PM on 05/13/2012

@AS2U,

Nonsense. Here is what the Quran teaches:

Quran 2:62 Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

Quran 5:69 Those who believe (in the Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians,- any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness,- on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

Quran 2:190 And fight in God's cause against those who wage war against you, but do not commit aggression-for, verily, God does not love aggressors.

Quran 60:9 God only forbids you to turn in friendship towards such as fight against you because of [your] faith, and drive you forth from your homelands, or aid [others] in driving you forth: and as for those [from among you] who turn towards them in friendship; it is they, they who are truly wrongdoers!

[kodimirpal]

10:12 PM on 05/13/2012

@AS2U

Islam is outside the circle of goodwill to have retained its negative image.

People are usually not nearly so eager to look kindly upon Islam, even though it is the third religion of Abraham and more in tune with our own Judaeo-Christian tradition.

The old hatred of lslam continues to flourish and people have few scruples about attacking this religion, even if they know little about it.

Until the rise of the Soviet Union in our own century, no polity or ideology posed such a continuous challenge to the West as Islam.

Western scholars denounced Islam as a blasphemous faith and its Prophet Muhammad as the Great Pretender, who had founded a violent religion of the sword in order to conquer the world. ' Mahomet' became a bogy to the people of Europe,

This inaccurate image of Islam became one of the received ideas of Europe and it continues to affect our perceptions of the Muslim world.

The problem has been compounded by the fact that, for the first time in Islamic history, Muslims have begun to cultivate a passionate hatred of the West.

In part this is due to European and American behaviour in the Islamic world. It is a mistake to imagine that Islam is an inherently violent or fanatical faith, as is sometimes suggested. Islam is a universal religion and there is nothing aggressively oriental or anti-Western about it.

Not my words but that of a Christian scholar( Karen Armstrong)

[Toledot]

03:50 AM on 05/15/2012

Good point.

[kodimirpal]

10:14 PM on 05/15/2012

Peace be with you, Thank you Teledot, try to be a more forceful and frequent participant commenting on issues that deal on inter-faith affairs

[kodimirpal]

01:07 AM on 05/12/2012

Taliban and Al-Qaeda Terrorism is criminality, so is Americans killing the innocent in the name of war on terror. Washington violates its own definition of terrorism

USA has caused huge loss to human lives ( more than a million people died in Iraq alone.)

Who was responsible for this? 4 million displaced refugees- This is sheer intimidation)

2. The USA has intimidated and coerced civilian population in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Panama, Columbia and others

3. The USA has influenced the policies of other governments by intimidation and coercion, and has appointed their hand picked leaders in many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Palestine etc.

The dimensions of American terror are huge and immeasurable and organisations like Al-Qaeda have no match for the mighty American terrorism.

It is like comparing a wild lion with a country mouse.

The terrorism of Al-Qaeda and the Talibans get a terribly bad press in the world simply because the world media is controlled by 8 huge American multinationals but the well organised terrorism of the so called civilized democracies such as the US is brushed away and termed as “FIGHT AGAINST TERROR”. Both are wrong.

Americans Have to Address the Root Cause of Terrorism and Stop American sponsored State Terrorism and Al-Qaeda should stop its terrorism that violates islamic principles.

[k john]

11:03 PM on 05/11/2012

Judging by the above situation, i have no other choice but to believe that america as a whole is at war against the muslims. Not just extremists but against the moderates and the liberals as well. Enough of this debate. Islamaphobia is at the heart of american culture along with anything else that is credible and different. The problem is, there are good americans but they are vastly out-numbered by the self-righteous and the ignorant so is it even worth discussing the good ones? I have ran out excuses for them.

[kodimirpal]

12:52 AM on 05/12/2012

And I may add and ask more questions

What would you call folk that fire bombed Dresden, the fires so hot they created their own oxygen?

Or purposefully experimented on fellow citizens giving them syphilis and leaving it untreated to see what the outcome would be?

What would you call folk that sanctioned the killing of 80,000+ people, men, women and children all on one day in a militarily insignificant town by nuclear weapons?

Or what would call folk that took the lynching of their fellow citizens (http://www.americanlynching.com) as sport?

Or what about folk that massacred defenseless aboriginals?

(http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm)

[BlackWidowPilot]

12:54 AM on 05/13/2012

A teacher are you, citizen? A teacher of what the question is begged, of broad, sweeping generalizations? A teacher of willfully committing the cardinal sin of the historian, judging the past through modern eyes?

What next, shall you tar all Muslims worldwide with the misdeeds of the Wahhabi fanatics who perpetrated 9/11?

Do tell.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

PROTESTant

[Doug Sandlin]

08:23 PM on 05/12/2012

As with every vast group of humans, the majority of Americans are good, reasonable people --- and a highly-vocal, extreme and incorrect minority often paints a different picture.

As an American non-Muslim who supports moderate and fair-minded people of all religions (and no religion) and cultures, I'm quite convinced that only a small, dedicated and loud contingent of people who are gullible enough to believe the fabrications of anti-Islam pundits have Islamophobic attitudes.

The travesty described in the article above is due to the well-funded professional anti-Islam effort in this country, and does not reflect the attitudes of more than a tiny minority of Americans with glaringly incorrect attitudes about Islam and Muslims.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/islamophobia.html

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/training/Muslim_Menace_Complete.pdf

[GotPC]

01:00 PM on 05/11/2012

Doug Sandlin wrote:
"I am an atheist, too"

- Is this a declaration by Doug that God doesn't exist and Mohammad was a deciever of people who misguided them to believe in a false religon?

[Doug Sandlin]

04:07 PM on 05/11/2012

Not at all.

I'm an atheist, not an anti-theist.

A theist is someone who believes in (i.e. has mental concepts about) the existence of a god or gods.

An atheist is simply someone who does not have such mental concepts.

Atheism is to religion as not-playing-football is to football.

I respect the beliefs of others, I just don't have such beliefs myself. The only ideas I don't respect, religious or otherwise, are ideas that are closed-minded, prejudicial, judgmental, controlling, violent, division-oriented, intolerant, etc. -- because these are the idea-sets that drive all the problematic behavior in the world.

Those of us who are open-minded, tolerant, respectful and oriented toward peace and that which is positive, are on the same side, regardless of whether we're religious or not.

[brian464]

10:16 AM on 05/11/2012

This is not about killing muslims or even terrorists;

its about how to exploit the situation for the profit agenda of the warfare corporations.

The Pentagon knows exactly what it is doing and defense contractors get what they want:

More drone attacks by the US government

results in the collateral deaths of civilians that further instigates the terrorists,

which in turn results in more attacks from terrorists,

which in turn results in the "bogeyman " propaganda from US politicians,

which in turn results in fear from the American public,

which in turn results in the public not questioning the

trillions spent on the warfare corporations

and which in turn results in the owners of the warfare corporations

"laughing all the way to the bank ".

The easiest way to not start a war :

(1) have a law that drafts the eligible children of pro-war politicians and have those politician kids on the front lines of any action

(2) have Americans pay for the war by deducting the cost of the war from their paychecks

instead of borrowing trillions from the Chinese.

If the above is done, politicians will be "tripping over each other" to make peace with the enemy

because pro-war politicians are great at sending other peoples’ poor children deliberately into harm’s way

but very reluctant to send their own children to the front lines

of unnecessary trillion dollar wars that are bankrupting this nation

[Atif Saleem]

08:04 AM on 05/11/2012

we already new it .... wt else a war loving country can teach its new generation ....

[BlackWidowPilot]

12:58 AM on 05/13/2012

Shall I tar all Muslims worldwide, all 1 billion of them with the same bloody brush meant for the handful of Wahhabi fanatics who perpetrated 9/11?

Were Americans a war loving people as you accuse, why are so many *not* in our Armed Forces? Why do so many oppose our wars overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan?

We are a nation of over 300 millions. We are not a monolithic block of like-minded clones any more than all Muslims are extremist Wahhabis.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

PROTESTant

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

07:58 AM on 05/11/2012

THE FIRST RULE OF WAR

is to know the enemy. But it seems the first rule of the Obama adminstration is that ignorance of the enemy is bliss.

[BlackWidowPilot]

01:01 AM on 05/13/2012

It seems that the first rule of the authoritarian political scoundrels among us is to whip up xenophobia founded upon willful ignorance and call it "knowledge of the enemy."

Can you tell me the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, a Wahhabi or a Sufi?

Enlighten me.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

PROTESTant

[ApolloSpeaks2U]

04:54 AM on 05/13/2012

The enemy is Islamic Supremicism: the belief in Islam's divine destiny to conquer and subdue the earth by violent or non-violent means. And Islamic Supremicists can be Sunni (Sheik Qaradawi) , Shia (Ayatollah Khomeini), Wahhabi (King Abdul Aziz) or Sufi (Al Ghazali).

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

07:55 AM on 05/11/2012

Islam, let alone ‘radical Islam’, poses no existential threat to the US or any other Western nation. Islam is not spreading, it is not winning over new coverts and it is completely failing to offer an attractive vision of society for anyone other than the most alienated, pathetic and bitter. Muslim terrorists will continue to commit acts of terrorism as Far Left groups used to and should be treated as they were, as criminals, not as ‘enemy combatants’. Criminals propelled by failure, narcissism, degeneracy and jealousy to champion a dying ideology.

[chicnstu49]

12:53 PM on 05/11/2012

Islam and Christianity are unfortuatnly coming to ahead. In North America we are not really exposed to the spread of these two religions, especialy in the Global South (Asia, Africa and Latin America). Both gain literally 1000's of new followers a day, even if this is not visible in North America. Take for example the war in the Sudan, a war between these two religions a fact I would argue most North Americans are not aware of. By ignoring this growing conflict and claiming that Islam isn't growing helps misrepresent the religion, and allow the military to justify "Hiroshima" tactics on a facelesss missunderstood culture. Terrorists do no speak for millions of people, they speak for the minority.

[Gragon]

02:56 PM on 05/11/2012

Come and have a look at Britain ,once Great Britain

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

03:20 PM on 05/11/2012

I am British and live in Yorkshire.

[Doug Sandlin]

08:58 PM on 05/11/2012

The only people who seem concerned about Muslims in the U.K. are anti-Muslims.

I have friends in the U.K., and I asked them about it -- and they were like, "What Muslims?"

Not everyone is into conspiracy theories.