US military taught officers to use "Hiroshima" tactics for "total war" on Islam

Danger Room reports the US military taught its officers to use "total war" against the world's 1.4 billion Muslims.

From Dooley's slides

"We have now come to understand there is no such thing as moderate Islam," Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, who taught the course, said.  "It is therefore time for the United States to make our true intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated. Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction."

International laws protecting civilians are "no longer relevant," continued Dooley, who suggested using the tactics of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki to Islam's holiest cities, and destroying Mecca and Medina.

The program was first brought to the public's attention by Danger Room and subsequently cancelled in April of this year.

Such talk in no way represents the beliefs of the majority of those in our armed services, and certainly none that I have met.  Every soldier, marine, and sailor I have spoken with would be appalled with the suggestion of complete annihilation of a society, no matter their political orientation.  Those who would advocate such tactics are in the minority, but their radicalism is what gets noticed and mars the reputation of the United States military abroad.  These classes, as well as mistaken drone strikes killing women and children and Staff Sgt. Robert Bales massacring innocent Afghans reinforces this idea the United States is at war with Islam.

The Arabist flagged Danger Room's report.  The site's main admin, Issandr el-Amrani, is a respected blogger. To see the extent of the damage such reports do to our reputation abroad, just see his posting on the subject.

The US military: the world's most advanced fighting force, technologically bleeding edge, probably the most complex logistics and planning effort by anyone on the planet.  The core of the American empire. Unfortunately, it is also plagued by complete morons and apparently a culture of genocide.  

Our military is respectable, professional, and determined to protect the innocent at home and abroad.  But idiots like Dooley and Bales (and not to mention their supervisors) drowns them out. 

Happy Valentine's Day from Um Widad: "Experience love...even before marriage, that's okay. But don't do anything forbidden by Islam."

The UAE's most famous marriage counselor, Widad Lootah, was profiled by the AFP yesterday.  Infamous for her 2009 book Top Secret: Sexual Guidance for Married Couples, she has received praise from liberal Muslims (and death threats from fundamentalists) for discussing oral sex (okay), the dangers of anal sex (banned in the Quran), female orgasms (definitely okay), the importance of sex ed (necessary), and homosexuality (banned in the Quran).

Lootah

Photo Bryan Denton from the NYT

Lootah speaks in terms of Islam and the Quran, avoiding Western liberal ideas such as women's rights. Her book was even approved by the Mufti of Dubai.

In her book, she wrote of a 52-year old grandmother who had never experienced pleasure with her husband.

"Finally, she discovered orgasm! Imagine, all the time she did not know!"

Lootah, called Um Widad by her clients, aims to break the stigma associated with sex in the UAE and throughout the Arab world, noting "what happens (or doesn't happen) in bed" is the key to a happy marriage.

"Don't shy away from it, don't feel ashamed by it. Enjoy it, you're supposed to," she told to AFP. "It's also about having fun" and its "at the core" of a happy marriage.

"Everything else [aside from anal sex], including all sexually intimate acts below the belly button, is allowed, Feel each other, touch each other, kiss each other all over...it's okay."

Lootah is an advocate for sex ed, saying, "It's very important that we educate them, both males and females, about sex...we have to prepare them psychologically and emotionally for it, and we have to teach them about the act itself."