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Petraeus: Self-Censor to Avoid Offending Muslims
PJ Media ^ | 5-17-2016 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 05/17/2016 1:02:51 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

David Petraeus, the former director of the CIA and former commander of CENTCOM, published a piece in the Washington Post last Friday entitled “Anti-Muslim Bigotry Aids Islamist Terrorists.”

Wrote Petraeus:

[I am] increasingly concerned about inflammatory political discourse that has become far too common both at home and abroad against Muslims and Islam, including proposals from various quarters for blanket discrimination against people on the basis of their religion.

Petraeus’s target isn’t just Donald Trump’s proposed temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration. He is referring to all speech that some Muslims might find offensive, and this has sweeping and ominous implications.

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To: Sir Napsalot

When Hillary lied about Benghazi and said it was an offensive video that caused the attack on the Embassy, Ms. Lindsay Graham and a lot of other idiots in Congress demanded we outlaw speech offensive to Muslims “so the troops are safe.”

We have to act like toe lickers to “be safe” in a world of Islam, from their point of view. This is the way the NWO uniparty monsters want us and our constitution to be - subservient to dictating, violent, hating Muslims.

I would rather not be so safe and if war with Islam is what it takes to be free, I say wipe them off the face of the earth. I will never grovel for Islam. The uniparty NWO pansies are endangering us.


21 posted on 05/17/2016 1:27:27 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Lera
No thanks , have no plans to become a dhimi

Me either, and that's the word Petraeus made me think of, but the spell checker says the spelling is "dhimmi".

22 posted on 05/17/2016 1:28:12 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Moslems are the boll weevils of humanity. To hell with them, their sensibilities, and their medieval death cult.


23 posted on 05/17/2016 1:29:48 PM PDT by Trod Upon (To be labelled "far-right" by modern journalists, one need do no more than NOT be far-left.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Aha!

Petra-ass was a Clintonesque imbecilic sex addict.

Now who wants a jackass like this on a ticket with President Trump?


24 posted on 05/17/2016 1:30:09 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Dick Bachert

"...Moderate Muslims..."


Absolutely concur with you that these so-called "moderate Muslims" do not exist.

I recall having lunch with the most mild-mannered, western, and savvy Muslim coworker one could imagine in October 2001, just weeks after all the September 11th attacks.

This person proceeded to tell how the terrorism was "understandable" that their "voices were not being heard and a bold statement needed to be made" for impact.

This was all coming from a person who was making an easy $200K per year, married, and planning children. That is when I knew that no Muslim could ever be trusted...at least during the span of my lifetime and almost certainly forever.


25 posted on 05/17/2016 1:31:13 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: NorthMountain

and a pedophile


26 posted on 05/17/2016 1:35:34 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: beethovenfan

And he is offended by our right to free speech.


27 posted on 05/17/2016 1:38:04 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sir Napsalot

the general has lost his marbles


28 posted on 05/17/2016 1:38:47 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sam Gamgee
And he is offended by our right to free speech.

Of course! Ever since he pinned on his first star, he had his rear kissed 24/7/365.

29 posted on 05/17/2016 1:40:00 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: All

This won’t happen.

A free society remains free because its citizens are able to criticize all ideas. Good ones gain favor and bad ones lose traction in the marketplace of ideas.

Islam can figure out for itself what face to show, at the moment, what most of us see is not good and not acceptable.

If they don’t like it, too bad. We did not build our free societies for them to take over.


30 posted on 05/17/2016 1:40:01 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (I've crossed the Rubicon -- God speed Donald Trump (just remember these are two different persons))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Causes one to wonder how far and wide the influence of a half-century of Arab oil money goes.


31 posted on 05/17/2016 1:41:03 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Sir Napsalot

Sounds kinda like bullsh1t to me, “General”.


32 posted on 05/17/2016 1:45:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Has this guy jumped the shark, or what? I remember seeing an interview with the late, great Vince Flynn, when he was on talk shows publicizing what turned out to be his last novel - The Last Man. There was a character in the novel who was a high-ranking military officer who was having an affair with a woman in the state dept. Vince was asked if he was surprised that something similar happened with Petreaus. He said he had met Petreaus, and that he struck him as less of a military general and more of a political general. I think Vince was probably correct. Maybe Petreaus got corrupted by Washington as so many do?
33 posted on 05/17/2016 1:45:55 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Sir Napsalot

FUDP


34 posted on 05/17/2016 1:47:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sir Napsalot

Petraeus commanded forces that killed tens of thousands of muslims

I think he offended them


35 posted on 05/17/2016 1:55:54 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“Blanket discrimination” against those who lied to get citizenship, and secretly long to impose sharia law in violation of our Constitution Might be considered SANE in some quarters.

Trump is the ONLY candidate who consistently, boldly, and loudly states that Radical Islamic Terrorism is a problem all over the world. Today I saw him say “It’s not the Swedes doing these things” and that Muslims here need to start turning people in...”fish or cut bait” (or something to that effect). He also let it be known he would “remember” the remarks of London’s mayor and that maybe he and Cameron maybe weren’t going to have a good relationship after all.

Trump don’t play. Results or get LOST! Beneficial to US or bust. Just what we need right now, IMO.


36 posted on 05/17/2016 2:01:11 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Syncopated

The guy is a liberal. F him and F you.


37 posted on 05/17/2016 2:08:08 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Sir Napsalot

He is paying off that light sentence from leaking classified docs.


38 posted on 05/17/2016 2:08:27 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: ground_fog

Was he also a sodomite boy-buggerer, or just a lot of his followers?


39 posted on 05/17/2016 2:20:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Is fellating muslims part of his plea bargain?


40 posted on 05/17/2016 2:29:06 PM PDT by 10mm
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