Nice Attack: Cut Down the Black Flag, Target Sharia, Counter Jihad, July 15, 2016
Former Special Forces Master Sergeant Jim Hanson, currently the Executive Vice President for the Center for Security Policy, has an answer to the problem of constant terror attacks. First, though, he dismisses the strategy of attempting to prevent attacks by adding additional levels of security. “Even in a police state, you couldn’t secure every gathering,” Hanson said, noting that this was just a simple delivery truck like any other.
“You have to look at the people who are conducting these terror attacks,” he told “FOX & Friends.” A focus on methodology won’t work, as the truck attack plainly shows: “It’s not guns, it’s not bombs, it’s not trucks,” but rather “the ideology of sharia and jihad that motivates them to kill.”
Hanson is the author of Cut Down the Black Flag: A Strategy To Defeat the Islamic State. Unsurprisingly, he believes that destroying the caliphate is an important part of the solution. However, he argues that the caliphate is only a symptom — albeit a major one — of the real problem. “You start in the Islamic State. You start with their caliphate, and you cut down their black flag there. But… that’s not going to solve the problem, that treats a symptom. The ideology of sharia, which calls for a holy war of jihad, is something we need to deal with.”
Citing a poll that sharia law enjoys large-scale support among Muslims worldwide, Hanson crossed into disputed territory. CounterJihad has reported on this controversy before.
The central issue to empirical science is the ability of others repeating the experiment to replicate your findings. If you replicate the same findings using the same methods, that’s telling. If you replicate the same findings with both the same and different methods, that’s even more suggestive that you’re on to something. Every poll of Muslim populations, regardless of its methodology, shows strong support for sharia.
Last summer, the Center for Security Policy commissioned a poll that found 51% support for sharia among American Muslims. There were critics who pointed out that this poll was an online poll, and one that only surveyed those who opted in. However, the Pew polling service found that half of American Muslims are recent immigrants, chiefly from countries in which their global survey of support for sharia tops 80%. Three of the leading countries for Islamic immigration to the United States are Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The figures for those countries are 91%, 84%, and 99% respectively.
When you find the same thing no matter how you study the question, you’re probably finding something that’s really there.
Hanson’s solution of targeting sharia also enjoys strong support from the American people. A recent poll conducted by a firm out of Atlanta found that more than seven in ten American voters think Muslim immigrants should be screened for the ideological belief in enforcing sharia law. More than 80% of those who agreed say all immigrants ID’d as Sharia adherents should be barred from entering the United States.
The popularity of the solution does not mean that it will be enacted, at least not for the next few months. A recent survey of US President Barack Obama’s calendar shows that he never met with former National Director of Intelligence LTG(R) Michael Flynn. He and his administration’s top officials did meet with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been proven in Federal court to be linked to the Foreign Terrorist Organization Hamas. In fact, CAIR has had hundreds of White House meetings.
Both of President Obama’s likely replacements have described the France attacks as acts of war, and both seem clearer-eyed than President Obama about the nature of the threat. However, asked which one was more likely to take the threat seriously, Hanson gave the nod to Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton would be too hamstrung by political correctness, he argued. Only Trump was likely to move strongly against Islamic terror.
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