‘It’s Slander When We Say it’s Slander’

In my opinion: By Gordon A Hunsaker

Understanding that General Petraeus is himself the object of an intense sustained information campaign and realizing that, as a matter of fact, every Coalition partner he speaks to has set as a primary objective the subversion of American standards of free speech through their direct legal subordination to Islamic law, when the General states that the exercise (of even unseemly) free speech by Americans in America should be subordinated to Islamic law of slander, lest Americans be killed, the standard he is speaking to is based on Islamic law – EVEN IF HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS.

The threats to kill should be understood to reflect the actual underlying hostility that not only drives al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslims actually protesting – to include those who will be sanctioned when they kill, but the OIC Member States that facilitate such activities in furtherance of the 10-Year Plan. Such campaigns reflect the actual hostility of the OIC – an entity that is not at all friendly, tolerant or moderate. Is there any understanding that the General is putting in question the very rights he is there to protect and defend?

The subordination of US Free Speech rights to Islamic law under threat of lethal jihadi attacks should be understood to be a declaration of hostility by those making such demands against the rights we swore to protect and defend!

Is there any understanding that his comment, along with State’s – along with a successfully manipulated media orientation – is designed to set up a de facto standard that aligns, and is intended to align, American free speech with OIC slander standards – themselves directly based on Islamic law?

Because our position in Afghanistan is already compromised, with Karzai already shifting, is the General saying it becomes more difficult to defeat the enemy if the enemy gets mad at us?

Or is he acknowledging that those who profess to be our friends – aren’t?

As with the Cartoon crisis, there seems to be little understanding that we are experiencing yet another full-on information campaign designed to undermine our commitment to principle Western values, key human rights, and an enumerated Constitutional right.

This is hardly just about a small town/small church preacher.

Just ask, how is it that most Americans’ understanding of this issue is not because they heard about a minister’s plan to burn Qur’ans, but rather from the realization that the entire Muslim world is violently protesting that event all around the world, in an obviously concerted way.

Just how is it that those Afghanis who rocked General Petraeus because they protested – who generally live lives of disinterest in and are fully cut-off from news of the outside world – could coordinate, protest, and riot – just like other groups around the Muslim World at the same time on the same issue, concerning some small town rural American ministry that, just like the Cartoon crisis, makes clear they retain the right to kill if the Minister does not stand down.

Recast to account for the information operation aspects fully driving this event, at what point can General Petraeus’s actions – or those of the State Department – begin to reflect the enforcement (even if unknowingly) of a hostile Islamic slander standard directed against a United States Citizen inside the United States?

These OIC “slander campaigns” will ALWAYS be calibrated against issues like the Minister’s Qur’an burning or the Cartoons of Muhammad.

And they will always be about getting principals in the West to support Islamic standards, first de facto and then de jure, against their own interests.

To stop them, it is important to understand the actual nature of the assaults and to get ahead of them.

If U.S. free speech standards in this country shift on such issues due to intra-American sensitivities, themselves based on genuine Constitutional principles, that would be one thing.

But if they shift to bring U.S. free speech standards into alignment with OIC standards, BY OUR HAND no less (ala the stated Muslim Brotherhood strategy to get us to subvert ourselves) – that would be an entirely different matter altogether!

Pakistani Brigadier S. K. Malik, in his Quranic Concept of War, stated that the object of jihad is the destruction of our faith in, among other things, our leadership.