Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military’s Joint Staff. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work for the military by pro-Muslim officials within the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.
Mr. Coughlin was notified this week that his contract with the Joint Staff will end in March, effectively halting the career of one of the U.S. government’s most important figures in analyzing the nature of extremism and ultimately preparing to wage ideological war against it.
He had run afoul of a key aide to Mr. England, Hasham Islam, who confronted Mr. Coughlin during a meeting several weeks ago when Mr. Islam sought to have Mr. Coughlin soften his views on Islamist extremism.
How could the defense department be more pc? Is this in the national interest?
Its interesting to note that Mr. England was “fleeted up” to his current position after serving as Secretary of the Navy.
I’ve made that point since there seems to be a Navy ‘touch’ to this situation.
The Navy is the service that historically has had the lowest tolerance for those who ‘challenge’ its ‘party line.’ If the ‘party line’ is battleships, then those who propose aircraft carriers are ‘disposed of.’ Likewise, if the ‘party line’ is the use of carrier battle groups to carry the war to to the enemy north of the arctic circle, as Secretary Lehman proposed, then those who propose using our ships to protect the flow of logistic ships to Europe were ‘disposed of.’
When, pre-911, a SEAL commander named Marcinko was assigned to test the physical security of naval installations and in doing so seriously and repeatedly embarrassed senior admirals, he was ‘disposed of.’
Over the years, many other insightful and highly competent individuals who have ‘run counter to the ‘party line’ have been ‘disposed of.’
So its not surprising to me that Mr. Coughlin is being ‘disposed of.’
The military was PC way before the words PC came into being.
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Indeed. They were at the cutting edge of PC, right behind academia and the media. Running scared by the negative press about Vietnam.
This is just plain, downright stupid, stupid, stupid! Just exactly what the radical Islamists want……………reread this quote from the 2nd link: [blockquote]… that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.[/blockquote]
When is everyone going to wake up? Ever?
We’re toast. This could be far worse than the penetration of Washington by Soviet agents prior to and at the beginning of the Cold War. Who has an interest in soft-pedaling the nature of our adversary?
On a broader note, why are both the Democrat and Republican Parties “soft pedaling” the problems being caused by illegal immigration?
Both Islamic extremism and illegal immigration, separately considered, are serious long-term problems.