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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: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

You may be onto something, or he may just be a politician/PC adherent all along.


41 posted on 05/17/2016 2:32:44 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Go to hell you narcissistic adulterer. I will not tell lies about the headchoppers.


42 posted on 05/17/2016 2:39:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: ohioman

Sure he is. You must be the arbiter of these sorts of thing, huh. Especially given that you used a liberal slur against CENTCOM’s leadership that, at the time, made it to a full-page NY Times A section slander hit-piece in the mid-2000’s when Petraeus was advocating for more troops on the ground?

Some of us were part of that surge that did wonders, even when we went though the most bullshit 2007-Ramadan season of fighting in that second half of the decade.


43 posted on 05/17/2016 2:40:03 PM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

Of course, we should be prudent. But what Petraeus is saying goes much further than that, especially taking into consideration his history. When he was a general in Afghanistan he openly got mixed up in the Terry Jones Koran-burning controversy, although a military officer has no jurisdiction over a civilian. Also, the U.S. Army burned Bibles in Afghanistan. Do you see a pattern here?


44 posted on 05/17/2016 2:40:35 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: Sir Napsalot

Many of our high-ranking generals are politicians first and soldiers second.


45 posted on 05/17/2016 2:41:44 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: Sir Napsalot

I don’t care if slimes are offended. We are in a war to salvage civilization from uncivilized savages.


46 posted on 05/17/2016 2:42:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Crump or Lose 2016)
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To: Sir Napsalot

et tu, Brute? He’s lost his everlovin’ mind.

Appeasement and apology has failed in Israel, Russia, China, Malaysia, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Greece and most parts of the African continent.

The correct view is: Muslims should be worried about offending freedom of religion.


47 posted on 05/17/2016 2:45:06 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: River Hawk

Petraeus is a politiking blowhard. I don’t doubt that. He wanted to run for elected office until he couldn’t keep his dick dry when that author was fellating his ego with that biography.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I honestly forgot about the Terry Jones incident — you just have to remember, there are people in Afghanistan willing to kill their own sons if they witness one of them burning their holy toilet paper. It’s bad when the “Ebil Amerikkkan” does it, too. I don’t poke the hornet’s nests with sticks when we got our boys and our national interests neighboring a hundred nests nest, though...


48 posted on 05/17/2016 2:49:12 PM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

I say it draws out more of the enemy and makes it easier to kill more of them. Anyway, we give up our First Amendment Rights for no one.


49 posted on 05/17/2016 2:51:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sir Napsalot
How did he ever rise to the rank of General? The man wouldn't seem to have sufficient judgment to be a bathroom attendant.

ML/NJ

50 posted on 05/17/2016 3:19:02 PM PDT by ml/nj (av)
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To: Syncopated

Nation building is political correctness. Ignorant political correctness.


51 posted on 05/17/2016 3:21:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: SaraJohnson

Hello is Dave there. Dave’s not here.

Misogynistic pedophile-worshippers offend me ! ! !


52 posted on 05/17/2016 4:00:51 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I guess the general slept through THIS class at the Academy and...Oh wait, they didn’t teach this at the Academy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y


53 posted on 05/17/2016 4:05:46 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Blue Jays

Dr. Bill Warner has them figured out. If you watch this video, you will understand more about the REAL THREAT posed by islam than practically everyone in Washington. We are SO SCREWED!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y\


54 posted on 05/17/2016 4:08:17 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Dick Bachert

"...Dr. Bill Warner..."


Watching the 44-minute YouTube video while I am cooking. Will let you know what I think of it.

55 posted on 05/17/2016 4:33:05 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“”He is referring to all speech that some Muslims might find offensive, and this has sweeping and ominous implications.””

Oh! Yeah, you little pipsqueak. It was that speech that could be blamed for the earlier WTC bombing, WTC 9/11, bombing of our embassies in Kenya, Khobar Tower, USS Cole. He is a disgusting individual and a drinking buddy of Hillary. Can’t these people just fade away into the woodwork? Why must we be subjected to their opinions all the time? Opinions are like AH - everyone has one but until we ask for yours, just shut up!


56 posted on 05/17/2016 5:37:16 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Sir Napsalot
FU hot pants.
57 posted on 05/17/2016 5:40:15 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: Thank You Rush

“”It was that speech that could be blamed for the earlier WTC bombing, WTC 9/11, bombing of our embassies in Kenya, Khobar Tower, USS Cole.””

I didn’t add the word, “right” at the end of that sentence. It’s what I meant to say...IOW, the statement was meant to be sarcastic..


58 posted on 05/17/2016 5:42:59 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Blue Jays

A VERY DIFFERENT history most of us got in school!


59 posted on 05/17/2016 6:07:15 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Syncopated

If he acts and talks as a Muslim loving liberal now I don’t care what he did in the past. Same goes for McCain too. To hell with them both.


60 posted on 05/17/2016 6:55:58 PM PDT by ohioman
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