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An Intellectual Reset On Terrorist Doctrines

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A major reason Donald Trump is in the oval office

is because he dared to promise to investigate and defeat those aspects of Islam which
threaten America. Even the presidents subdued language in Saudi Arabia described the need
to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism, and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds.

The president is 100% right, yet many Republican legislators and even many members of
President Trumps inner circle do not agree with the Presidents common-sense statement.

This was evident last Friday when the House voted down Trent Franks (R-AZ-08) House
Amendment 185 to the National Defense Authorization Act, 217 to 208, with 27 Republicans
joining 190 Democrats.

The amendment, titled Strategic Assessments of the Use of Violent or Unorthodox Islamic
Religious Doctrine to Support Extremist or Terrorist Messaging and Justification, was called
controversial by Politico.

In fact, the only thing controversial is the Pentagons failure to perform such an assessment
immediately after 9-11-2001.

Here is what such an assessment would have revealed.

The established U.S. military doctrine governing the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
(IPB) requires the factual identification of (1) the Enemy, (2) the Enemy Threat Doctrine that
makes them go to war, and (3) their victory Objectives for waging war.

This never happened!

If, in 2001, the Pentagon had followed their own doctrinal standard, they would have quickly
uncovered what bin Laden (with other jihadi groups) explained in their February 1998 Second
Fatwa (a fatwa is a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority), [i]n
compliance with Gods order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the
Americans and their allies civilians and military is an individual duty for every Muslim
who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it. and fight them until there is no
more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.

Mapping al Qaedas own words with the Pentagons IPB doctrine reveals that (1) our enemy is
a global Islamic movement, (2) authoritative Islamic law makes it obligatory for all Muslims to
participate in this war, (3) whose objective is to violently force the world into submission to
Islamic law.

If the Clinton Administration had done such an assessment in 1998, perhaps we could have
avoided the bombing of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998,
the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, and the horrific attack of 9-11-2001.

It is beyond dispute that numerous other Islamic groups like the Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, al
Shabab, and the Muslim Brotherhood share the same doctrinal justification for war.

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But just as interesting is the question, is it true? Is there such a thing as authoritative Islamic
law, and does it make such obligatory demands of Muslims?

On all counts, the answer is yes. There are four schools of Sunni jurisprudence, codified for a
thousand years, published continually, and published today in authoritative English
translations.

All four schools agree that the primary definition of jihad is violent, kinetic war by all
stratagem to establish global submission to Islamic law, that such jihad is obligatory for all
Muslims, that lying to advance jihad is obligatory, and that funding it is obligatory.

One such Islamic legal text, Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law,
certified by the Muslim Brotherhoods International Institute of Islamic Thought, uses the word
obligatory over 600 times.

So, far from being extreme or perverted positions of Islam, published, authoritative
Islamic law states it is obligatory for pious, observant Muslims, like Fort Hood assassin Major
Nidal Malik Hasan, to execute acts to include terrorism, material support of terrorism, sedition,
and numerous other felonies in the US Code.

One has to question Rep. Keith Ellisons (D-MN-05) motives for claiming Franks is abridging
the free exercise of that religion.

This is not a religious exercise to know what Islam or even what Shariah is in some perfect or
academic world. This is a necessary national security threat analysis that looks at what the
enemy says its doctrine is. The fact that the enemys stated doctrine has such broad support
across the theoretical doctrine of knowable Shariah simply makes it a far more effective
recruiting tool among Muslims who make up the recruitment cohort, especially here in
America.

It is inexcusable, after more than 15 years of continual war, that countless national security
and political elites, and at least 217 members of congress, are still unable to identify Americas
enemy, their doctrine, and their objective. It is at a minimum professional malpractice, if not
dereliction of duty. Every American should have a problem with that.

Every American should demand that President Trump reorient our national security
establishment back to the facts and purge the politically correct fictions embraced by elected
and appointed officials. Every American should settle for nothing less.

Michael Del Rosso is Vice President and Senior Fellow at The American Strategy Group.

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