Disgrace

"If the Enemy in the War on Terror (WOT) states that he fights jihad in furtherance of Islamic causes that include the imposition of Shari’a law and the re-establishment of the Caliphate; and Islamic law on jihad exists and is available in English; then Professionals with WOT responsibilities have an affirmative, personal, professional duty to know the enemy; that includes ALL the knowable facts associated with the law of jihad."

Who said that?

It was Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon's expert on Islamic law and radicalism - who has just been fired for being too un-PC...and correct. The sacking came after complaints from pro-Muslim officials who had long wanted his head.

This is an absolute disgrace. Here we have a man with invaluable knowledge regarding our enemy in this war, and he is being dismissed because he is treading too close to the line of political incorrectness. Such actions demonstrate how suicidally clueless Western leaders are when it comes to the nature of jihad and our enemy.

This week, with this act of intellectual cowardice, the West lost a little bit of its already-crumbly defensive bastion.