Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In by Spencer Robert

Author:Spencer, Robert [Spencer, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621572305
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2014-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

TAKING AIM AT THE REAL DANGER

“Right-Wing Extremists”

The removal of all mention of Islam and jihad from government training materials on terrorism left a void. And it soon became clear with what the Obama administration was going to fill it. Fox News reported in April 2013 that “the U.S. Army listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania. . . . The incident occurred during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism.”1

The list was headed “Religious Extremism”; topping it was “Evangelical Christianity (U.S./Christian),” followed by “Ikhwan or Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt/Muslim)” and then “Ultra-Orthodox (Israel/Judaism)”—making for a politically correct trifecta of the three main monotheistic religions. Also on the list were “Al Quaeda [sic] (Transnational/Islam)”; “Hamas (Palestinian/Islamist)”; “Abu Sayyah [sic] (Philippines/Islam)”; “Ku Klux Klan (U.S/Christian)”; and “Catholicism (U.S./Christian),” among others.2

The list also included “Islamophobia” as a form of “religious extremism”—apparently on the basis of the by-then mainstream assumption that those who opposed the global jihad and Islamic supremacism were Christian fanatics motivated by some kind of religious one-upmanship.

The idea that there was any factor unifying these disparate groups was howlingly absurd, and the list would have been a joke—if it had not come from the U.S. Army. Apparently this politically manipulative and ridiculous nonsense was what replaced the truthful information about Islam and jihad that had been removed from counterterror training material.

Throughout his presidency, Obama repeated many, many times that we are not at war with Islam, and the mainstream media consistently took the line that to suggest otherwise would be evidence of “hatred” and “bigotry.” But apparently it was not “hatred” and “bigotry” for the United States to declare that Catholicism is the same sort of thing as al Qaeda. The list did also include “Sunni Muslims,” but specified those in Iraq—no way was the Obama administration going to classify all Sunni Muslims as “extremists.”

According to the list, Catholicism was a form of “religious extremism,” though apparently only in the United States That was bad enough. But the larger implications of the U.S. Army’s “Religious Extremism” list were quite ominous. If Evangelical Christianity (in the United States), Catholicism (in the United States) and “Islamophobia” were forms of “Religious Extremism” on par with al Qaeda and Hamas, then would the Obama administration go to war against them, as it had repeatedly declared that it was at war with al Qaeda?

The Proliferation of “Hate Groups”

For this list was not an isolated case of the administration lumping law-abiding Americans—and particularly its domestic critics—in with Islamic terrorists. Investigative reporter Matthew Vadum reported in September 2013 that “conservative organizations are ‘hate groups’ and Tea Party supporters are potentially dangerous extremists, according to educational materials the Obama administration is using to indoctrinate members of the nation’s armed forces.”

Vadum noted that a Defense Department diversity training center guide entitled “Extremism,” published in January 2013, warned that “instead of ‘dressing in sheets,’ radicals today ‘will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.

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