An instructor at the Joint Forces College in Virginia for military officers was until recently teaching a course advocating “total war” with Islam that could require obliterating the holy cities of Mecca and Medina without concern for civilian deaths. He suggested that destroying Islamic holy sites would follow the precedents of the nuclear strike by the allies on Hiroshima in World War II and the firebombing of Dresden. His course was called ‘Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism’.
The course offered a theoretical war plan based on the need for “a direct ideological and philosophical confrontation with Islam”. In his presentation, he said: “They hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, unless you submit”. He added that as America waged that war it would be free to ignore provisions of the Geneva Convention that sets the rules for armed conflict as “no longer relevant”.
The course said Islam has already declared war on the US, and the current American stance of seeking common ground with Islamic leaders around the world as “illogical” and the better option was “waging ‘near total war’ ”
“We have now come to understand that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’,” the instructor said in the July presentation. “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.”
The course may have been taught to as many as 800 mid-level and senior US military officers.
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The course offered a theoretical war plan based on the need for “a direct ideological and philosophical confrontation with Islam”. In his presentation, he said: “They hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, unless you submit”. He added that as America waged that war it would be free to ignore provisions of the Geneva Convention that sets the rules for armed conflict as “no longer relevant”.
The course said Islam has already declared war on the US, and the current American stance of seeking common ground with Islamic leaders around the world as “illogical” and the better option was “waging ‘near total war’ ”
“We have now come to understand that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’,” the instructor said in the July presentation. “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.”
The course may have been taught to as many as 800 mid-level and senior US military officers.
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