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This is a very interesting read from a Singapore Think Tank.
"In addition to influencing the human terrain, engaging the media, the education and religious sectors are vital. For instance, the immense suffering of Muslims both in the battlefield and off-the-battlefield attacks has not been adequately portrayed. The media was unable to shed adequate light on the fact that a third of those killed by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel – the Tunisian behind the 2016 truck attack in Nice – were Muslims. Overall, to manage the IS threat, the response should be multi-pronged, multi-agency, multi-dimensional and multi-national."
"In addition to influencing the human terrain, engaging the media, the education and religious sectors are vital. For instance, the immense suffering of Muslims both in the battlefield and off-the-battlefield attacks has not been adequately portrayed. The media was unable to shed adequate light on the fact that a third of those killed by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel – the Tunisian behind the 2016 truck attack in Nice – were Muslims. Overall, to manage the IS threat, the response should be multi-pronged, multi-agency, multi-dimensional and multi-national."
CO17007 | Defeating Islamic State | RSIS
Posted from rsis.edu.sg
ISIS
War on Terror
Terrorism
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Or stop tying everyone's hands and let the service members do what they are trained to do.
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@LTC Eric Udouj Sir do you really think it matters to them, that they are killing fellow Muslims? Further isn't that the premise of the Wahhabism? Those who are not followers of Wahhabism are NOT considered to be "believers" therefore in their minds they would not be killing other Muslims. There is an entire generation now both male and female that were stripped from their families at a the age of 7 educated and trained within the Masjed, Madrasa, and camps for females in extremist thought.
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LTC Eric Udouj
The IS folks are not pure Wahhabists - they have some of it and added in other things. Actually - as far as the B Roll for propaganda goes - yes. We have achieved that - not iin the combat aspects - but in the actions we have done. I am sure there will be always martyrs out there that some will throw onto the wheels of propaganda and point as the US killing them. But what this article does not go into detail on is the darker side of such... it matters that we sided with the Shia militias and that the perception is clearly set in place we have done so. The Shia are the greater enemy.. and though we do not see it as such - and know they will soon start shooting us again - the next generations will see the US planes flying in support of the militias who conducted massacres. We like to see ourselves as the center of attention - and it is hard to think that we are not such... more so that perceptions can make us as on the same side with those militias.
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Interesting Synopsis and commentary. I have downloaded it and will read it a little later tonight.
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