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Right-Wing Pundit: Petraeus Is a Slave to Sharia - By Adam Weinstein <http://motherjones.com/authors/adam-weinstein> | Thu Apr. 28, 2011 2:12 PM PDT Photo illustration/Petraeus: Washington Examiner <http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/report-whi te-house-considering-gen-petraeus-next-cia-director> ; Dome of the Rock: Fotopedia <http://i.images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-3213526464-original/World_Heritage _Sites/Middle_East/Jerusalem_Site_proposed_by_Jordan/Old_City_of_Jerusalem_a nd_its_Walls/Dome_of_the_Rock/Dome_of_the_Rock-Islam-original.jpg> There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Gen. David Petraeus' upcoming job move from Kabul to the CIA: his cult of personality; his overselling of progress in Afghanistan; his escalation of the air war <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/drones-rejoice-petraeus-to-head-cia -panetta-to-pentagon/> and violent conventional tactics; the idea that intelligence policy might become more militarized, and the military might become spookier. But here's a novel criticism of the golden general from right-wing Islamophobe Frank Gaffney, he of the "ground zero mosque <http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/peter-kings-radicalization-hearings-exp lained> " freakout, the military logo freakout <http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/fun-frank> , and the Islamic law freakout <http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/great-sharia-freakout-and-gop> : He's a mind slave to sharia law! <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/28/frank-gaffney-david-petraeus-sharia/> ThinkProgress reports on Gaffney's response in a recent Q&A at Liberty University: Let me just mention several different ways in which this kind of influence operation is being run against those sorts of target sets...I'm sure most of you witnessed General David Petraeus, the much admired military leader, responding to the Quran burning down in Florida by Pastor Terry Jones. Saying that the holy Quran - repeatedly - the holy Quran must not be desecrated, and in other ways, suggesting that what we are doing here is a kind of submission to this program, lest we give offense, which is a blasphemy and a capital crime under Sharia. Man, is that a high bar for true-blue Americanness. Petraeus must be asking himself: How many Afghan villages does a guy have to flatten <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/25-tons-of-bombs-wipes-afghan-town- off-the-map/> to prove he's no fan of Islamic jurisprudence? <http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/04/petraeus-is-slave-sharia-islam-afghanis tan> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
