10/29/14, "US Envoy: To Defeat ISIS, We Must Highlight ‘Our Profound Respect’ for Islam," CNS News, Patrick Goodenough
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| Oct. 2014 |
Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen was speaking in Kuwait, where representatives of more than a dozen Islamic and Western met to discuss using public communications to combat ISIS (also known as Da’esh – an acronym for the Arabic rendering of the group’s name, ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fil-Iraq wa ash-Sham)....
The administration last month appointed Allen as special presidential envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition, with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk, an Iraq specialist, serving as his deputy.
Allen served as deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq’s Anbar province in 2006-2008, and was credited with playing a key role in the “awakening” campaign by Anbar’s Sunni tribes against al-Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS’ precursor. He was coalition commander in Afghanistan from 2011-2013....
“As we seek to expose Da’esh’s true nature,” Allen told the gathering on Monday, “we must also tell a positive story, one that highlights our respect – our profound respect for Islam’s proud traditions, its rich history, and celebration of scholarship and family and community.”
“We must work with clerics and scholars and teachers and parents to tell the story of how we celebrate Islam, even as we show that Da’esh perverts it.”
The conference in Kuwait City brought together officials from leading Arab states, Turkey, France, Britain and the U.S. to discuss ways their governments are working to counter ISIS’ message.
The jihadist group, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq and has declared a “caliphate” in those areas, runs a dynamic propaganda and recruitment operation, including a full-color online magazine, video clips, and an active social media presence.
The Qur’an and other Islamic texts, along with viewpoints of historical and modern-day Muslim scholars, are central to its messaging, and the U.S.-led coalition is prioritizing attempts to counter the purported religious justifications for its actions....
“It is only when we contest Da’esh’s presence online and deny the legitimacy of its message – the message that it sends to vulnerable young people – and as we expose Da’esh for the un-Islamic, criminal cult of violence that it really is, it is only then that Da’esh will be truly defeated.”...
“Da’esh’s online messengers present themselves as the true and victorious representatives of Islam. They seek to portray themselves as winners, true leaders worthy of financial support that attracts and radicalizes foreign fighters,” he said."...
Image: "Gen. John Allen, special U.S. envoy for the coalition to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, meets with Kuwait’s emir, Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, right, in Kuwait City on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/KUNA)"
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Comment: In plain English: This Obama envoy is "credited" with the "awakening" of ISIS which he accomplished while working for George Bush:
"Allen served as deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq’s Anbar province in 2006-2008, and was credited with playing a key role in the “awakening” campaign by Anbar’s Sunni tribes
against al-Qaeda in Iraq,
ISIS' precursor."...
It's widely reported that ISIS is so much more vicious than Al Qaeda that Al Qaeda wants nothing to do with it. So we were better off when we only had Al Qaeda. The man "credited" with "awakening" ISIS has been elevated to a top "global" post in the United States government and is being paid by US taxpayers. For all the world to see and laugh at.
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