In September 2015, Act for Canada invited Major (ret) Stephen Coughlin to give two lectures on the Islamist threat in Montreal and Ottawa. On September 17, 2015, Mr. Coughlin was in Ottawa and VladTepes recorded the event. The conference itself is available in seven videos.
In the days preceding the conferences, Act for Canada publicized a Fox interview with Stephen Coughlin in order to introduce him to its supporters who did not already know him.
Here are the highlights of Stephen Coughlin’s presentation in Ottawa.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 0 – Fox News interviews Stephen Coughlin
PART 1 – Introduction to the narrative
PART 2 – How the narrative affect judgement?
PART 3 – The OIC, Islamophobia and UN resolution 16/18
PART 4 – Muslim Brotherhood and civilizational jihad
PART 5 – Muslim Brotherhood is Al-Qaeda is Islamic State. What version of sharia?
PART 6 – Sharia law, jihad and insurgency
PART 7 – We know this because they say so
PART 8 – Questions and answers
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PART 0 – Fox News interviews Stephen Coughlin
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/08/stephen-coughlin-coming-to-ottawa-and-montreal/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFa_yW6w4k
DURATION: 3:44
Major (ret) Stephen Coughlin was interviewed on Fox News after the release of his book Catastrophic Failure [Excerpts] in April 2015. The interviewer asked him why he was fired from his position as intelligence officer for the Pentagon during the Bush administration.
THE GOAL OF INTELLIGENCE IS TO DEFINE THE ENEMY AS HE DEFINES HIMSELF
[00:37] Stephen Coughlin: “The goal of intelligence is to define the enemy as he defines himself. It’s not my fault he defines himself as a jihadi to impose Islamic law. They asked me to purge that from my research. I refused, so they purged me. The question becomes: If you can’t analyse Al-Qaeda based on what they say they’re fighting for, how can you analyse them at all?”
[01:23] Stephen Coughlin: “I don’t have to prove what true Islam is to all Muslims. I just have to prove what Islam is to the people we are fighting and they think these things.”
[01:29] Interviewer: “Let’s look at the National Intelligence Report. In 2004, they mention the word ‘jihad’ 126 times, ‘Islam’ 322 times, ‘Muslim’ 145 [times], and ‘Sharia law’ twice. Now, let’s look in 2009: 0 ‘jihad’, 0 ‘Muslim’, 0 ‘Islam’, 0 ‘Sharia.’ Is there a danger in that?
[01:50] Stephen Coughlin: “There is an absolute danger. You cannot target what you will not define. And I think we think of the war on terror and what’s going on over there, but I think the people we are up against feel that they can win over here by influencing how we conceptualize the nature of the threat and miss all the time. Because, if I can’t use the concept of jihad that Al-Qaeda say they rely on, then I can’t understand what they’re going to do.”
ALSO GMBDW (December 29, 2007): Pentagon officials reported to be pressuring Muslim Brotherhood critic [Stephen Coughlin] at Pentagon
Claudia Rosett (National Review – January 25, 2008): Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam? / WebArchive – Archive.Today
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PART 1 – Introduction to the narrative
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/21/stephen-coughlin-in-ottawa-part-i/ VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9hFHIxyAs
VIDEO http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=634_1443328948
DURATION: 11:01
[00:44] The Muslim Brotherhood organizations operating in the U.S. and in Canada are the same.
[01:20] Stephen Coughlin: “Interestingly enough, [Mohamed] Morsi, who is the head of the Muslim Brotherhood who was elected president in Egypt… He joined the Muslim Brotherhood when he joined the Muslim Students Association at the University of Southern California.”
QUEBEC’S ANTI-‘HATE SPEECH’ BILL 59 WAS FIRST SCRIPTED AT AN OIC MEETING IN 2005
[02:49] Stephen Coughlin: “That [Quebec’s anti-‘hate speech’] Bill 59 was first scripted on December 7, 2005 when an organization called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC] met in Mecca [Saudi Arabia], and it was composed of all the heads of states of the Muslim world… They passed something called the OIC Plan of action to make defamation of Islam a crime in every jurisdiction.”
[03:17] Stephen Coughlin: “What you’re looking at, right now, with Bill 59 is the final mile. That is replicating itself in the Netherlands, it’s replicating itself in London, Vienna. It’s replicating itself all over the West. […] This is part of a synchronized defamation campaign that was put together by entities with specific intent to get people to do that.”
[05:17] Coordinated efforts by the ‘hard left,’ the OIC and various Muslim Brotherhood entities (Mr. Coughlin specifically mentioned CAIR-Canada / renamed NCCM) to silence opponents of sharia.
UNDERSTANDING THE OPERATIONAL AND STRATEGIC COMPONENTS OF ALL ISSUES
[05:27] Stephen Coughlin: “You have to know that if you go after CAIR-Canada [renamed National Council of Canadian Muslims in 2013], the civil liberties group is gonna come after you. And if you don’t know that, you don’t understand the issue or you understand it at a strictly near, tactical [level]. There is an operational and a strategic component to this. What I ask people to do is start understanding the tactical event today in terms of the operational events driving it and the strategic design that makes it happen. And then, only through that, you start to address the issue you’re seeing today. Otherwise, you can win… It’s like fighting the waves coming on the tide. You can kick every wave back until you just get tired.”
REFUGEES: GOOD BODY OF EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THESE ARE MILITANT DRAFT-AGED MEN
[06:53] Stephen Coughlin: “You would think that the refugees trying to come over represent […] some bedraggled women and some poor children who are hungry. I am greatly concerned because I heard from some people, some knowledgeable people, that a high percentage of these refugees happen not to be bedraggled women and their children, starving to death. There is a good body of evidence that shows that a high percentage of these are draft-aged men.”
[08:07] Stephen Coughlin mentions ‘refugees’ throwing food away because they don’t want it, attacking the border guards and getting the upper hand on the border guards.
[08:15] Stephen Coughlin: “These are not refugees in the sense that we understand it. This is a mass-movement of draft-aged men who are actually militant. Who wants someone like that coming to your country if the first contact they have with your law enforcers is to have total disrespect for them?”
THE 2007 U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE’S CHANGE OF STRATEGY INVOLVING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
[08:40] Stephen Coughlin: “There are two views about the Muslim Brotherhood. One view, which is completely devoid of facts is the fact that the ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood is the alternative to ‘radical’ Al-Qaeda and, if we work with ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood, we could put Al-Qaeda on their heels.
[09:02] Stephen Coughlin: “That actually became a policy shifting event in 2007, at the time I was in the Pentagon.”
[09:10] Stephen Coughlin refers to an article published by Foreign Affairs magazine in 2007, whose pre-release was largely promoted at the Pentagon and that explained what would become the new Pentagon policy in the following years.
Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke (Foreign Affairs – March/April 2007): The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood / WebArchive – Archive.Today
[09:36] Stephen Coughlin: “This is the point at which the Secretary of State [Condoleeza Rice] changed the U.S. strategy and brought the [Muslim] Brotherhood in as the ‘moderate’ alternative to ‘radical’ Al-Qaeda.”
[09:48] Stephen Coughlin: “That view is based on soft science, political science, sociologist, anthropological models… It’s not based on published Muslim Brotherhood doctrine. It’s not based on the works that the Muslim Brotherhood publishes, not just in Arabic but in English. The point of it is: For the people who want to argue ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood is the alternative to ‘radical’ Al-Qaeda, they don’t have facts to put behind that. They have a relationship with a friend and ‘Gosh, I know him. He’s my friend. He wouldn’t lie to me.’ On our side, we have what they’re saying in Arabic. We have what they are writing in English. We have the Brotherhood doctrine to say that everything he told you, he’s allowed to tell you because he’s allowed to lie to you. I am not saying this because that’s my opinion; I’m taking it out of a Court record of what they said in a wiretap.”
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PART 2 – How the narrative affect judgement?
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/22/stephen-coughlin-in-ottawa-canada-part-ii/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSv1qvgwBw
DURATION: 20:49
WE NEED TO LINE UP THE FACTS, TO HAMMER THEM AND TO ACCEPT THE RIDICULE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
[00:10] Stephen Coughlin: “We have the facts on our side. […] In this issue, the other side only has a narrative that they ruthlessly enforce to push you back and silence you. […] We need to start looking at this issue in terms of lining up the facts and hammering them. And staying on the facts. Get elevated, get angry, get emotional but get emotional on the facts. If you have a data point you love, that you personally believe but you can’t prove it’s true… I just say it, I guarantee you someone’s gonna pull you off the road because you did that. They’re waiting for you to say that.”
[01:10] Stephen Coughlin: “The goal is to create your language, your arguments, there, based on facts that will prevail even though you’ll have to accept the ridicule for a short period of time.”
[1:21] Stephen Coughlin mentions schemes by which ‘moderates’ ask for money to bring ‘radicals’ to forswear their ‘radicalism.’
[03:02] Stephen Coughlin: “The question is: Why do we create a model that says there’re ‘moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood and ‘radical’ Al-Qaeda which becomes the paradigm by which we have decided to understand that, despite the fact that from Al-Qaeda to our closest Arab ally, […] they have said since 2001 there’s no such thing as ‘radical’ Islam, there’s no such thing as ‘moderate’ Islam, there is just Islam?”
[04:47] Stephen Coughlin: “We have decided to only understand them through the metrics we create to understand them and not through how they decide to explain themselves.”
[04:57] General remarks about Quebec’s ‘hate speech’ Bill 59
[05:17] Remarks about the media accusing Pamela Geller of bringing on herself a terrorist attack because of her criticism of Islam.
[05:58] Stephen Coughlin: “We need to get rid of the metrics, the political science, the sociological, the psychosocial models that we use to understand the jihadi movement. […] Those models exist specifically to keep you from actually addressing the cause and facts. Intelligence exists for the sole purpose of identifying threats to your country by knowing the enemy and I’ll add IN FACT.”
[06:47] Stephen Coughlin: “Every time you hear someone giving some psychological profile of Baghdadi, who the heck cares? He’s still killing people. How did we stop Hitler? We did not send the 1940’s version of Oprah over there. He had to be identified, we had to build a military capacity to go into direct combat with him to defeat him. Anything short of that would have been defeat.”
DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION OR A LACK OF WILL TO ACT ON THE ISLAMIST THREAT
[07:13] Stephen Coughlin: “Anything outside of the direct engagement of an enemy who declares himself your enemy and declares himself his right to kill you that does not respond to those facts is disinformation, or misinformation or a failure of will.”
[08:10] From time to time, while working for the Pentagon, Stephen Coughlin witnessed high-ranking officers making foolish remarks in front of their staff. Mr. Coughlin said that he could criticize them or put them down in front of their staff. Instead, he would show a spoof video that would make the point for him.
[09:57] Spoof video on the inability to connect the dots: What do they have in common?
[14:34] Stephen Coughlin: “The minute you decide to go to underlying causes: economic deprivation, abuse by his mom, anthropological theories [to explain the terrorists’ motivations], once you go to that without having check off facts, you cannot possibly be doing threat analysis.”
[15:04] Showing of a second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU6n1mrpAGY. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, Paul Stockton, refuses to acknowledge that Al-Qaeda is a proponent of “violent Islamist extremism.”
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PART 3 – The OIC, Islamophobia and UN resolution 16/18
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/24/stephen-coughlin-ottawa-brief-segment-3/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4GlEZHWncw
DURATION: 8:26
[00:07] Stephen Coughlin’s remarks on the Muslim Brotherhood in North America are based on documents that were submitted during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial that took place in the U.S. in 2008.
[01:50] Stephen Coughlin: “Alongside the [Muslim] Brotherhood penetration internally, there is an international operation that’s being executed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. […] It’s the OIC. It is the second largest intergovernmental organization in the world. It is second only to the United Nations. It is an intergovernmental organization, it is not an NGO [non-governmental organization]. […] When in 2005, they [the Muslim heads of state gathered at an OIC meeting] passed what they called the Program of action, the OIC Program of action that makes the defamation of Islam a crime in every jurisdiction in the world, including here [in Canada], it was by the heads of states of all the Islamic countries.”
[02:42] Stephen Coughlin: “Historically, when a sovereign or somebody operating as a sovereign declares a right to change your laws, isn’t it considered an act of war? It’s certainly understood to be a hostile act.”
[02:57] Stephen Coughlin: “The IIIT, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, in the 1980s, created the word ‘Islamophobia.’ You have people argue that the word existed before then and I’m certainly sure that it existed in some form or another. But the term ‘Islamophobia’ as it exists today was put together by the IIIT, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, that is headquartered in Northern Virginia and that phrase was adopted by the OIC, […] not an NGO but a state actor.”
ISLAMOPHOBIA CHARGES: SUBORDINATING YOUR FREE SPEECH RIGHT TO A HOSTILE FOREIGN LEGAL STANDARD
[04:18] Stephen Coughlin: “When somebody accuses you of Islamophobia, understanding that it comes from this [OIC] ten-year Program of action that manifests itself in two things: the Islamophobia campaign and UN Resolution 16/18, it means that somebody is demanding that you subordinate your free speech right to a hostile foreign legal standard in your own country. That’s a hostile act.”
[04:49] More details about the involvement of Pakistan and the OIC Secretary in UN Resolution 16/18 on Islamophobia.
NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYSTS SWITCHING OUT OF FACTUAL ANALYSIS TO FOLLOW ACADEMIC THEORIES
[07:20] Stephen Coughlin: “A professional, under law, is somebody who has a duty to be competent. The first rule of competency in law, in American law, I’ve no reason to believe it’s any different here… The first rule of competency is the duty to know, the duty to know what is the object of your profession. So, when you have National Security analysts who are switching out of factual analysis that’d be conform to the duty to know and instead are following academic theories, aren’t they actually in violation of the duty to know? I mean, if you had a brain surgeon who said: ‘I know he died and I know I violated every canon in the brain surgery but I was watching a TV show where a witch doctor actually did something and it worked and I tried that.’ He’d go to jail […] because of his negligence. That negligence led to a death and that death was negligent homicide. Why are we not holding up our National security professionals to that same standard?”
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PART 4 – Muslim Brotherhood and civilizational jihad
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/25/stephen-coughlin-ottawa-brief-part-iv/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoAC3OvjOQ
DURATION: 11:22
[00:29] The cost of not understanding the enemy is getting higher every day.
[01:14] Stephen Coughlin: “[Political correctness] is the tool that is being used to cause defeat.”
[01:53] Stephen Coughlin: “As the OIC is pushing UN resolution 16/18, there’s a Soros group called Article 19, that’s an NGO, working in international forums like the OSCE and what they are doing is that they’re redefining terms in international treaties. So, in redefining terms in international treaties, they can change your law without knowing it. The word they’re working on right now in international treaties is the word ‘incitement’.”
[02:45] Stephen Coughlin recalls the circumstances that led police in 2004 to the discovery of the North American Muslim Brotherhood’s archives in a sub-basement in Northern Virginia. Some of the documents were used in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in the U.S.
CIVILIZATIONAL JIHAD AND DESTROYING THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM WITHIN
[3:47] Stephen Coughlin quotes excerpts of a memorandum that was found in these Muslim Brotherhood archives about the objectives of the network:
– Establishing an effective and a stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally;
-The Movement must plan and struggle to obtain “the keys” and the tools of this process in carry out this grand mission as a “Civilization
Jihadist” responsibility which lies on the shoulders of Muslims and – on top of them – the Muslim Brotherhood in this country.
– The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
[08:55] Stephen Coughlin: “This is a brazen statement of hostile intent. It cannot be understood any other way. Therefore, you can’t allow people who are making decisions about your security to pretend they don’t know this or to pretend that it doesn’t mean that or to pretend that there is an intervening factor that kept this from meaning what was said.”
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PART 5 – Muslim Brotherhood is Al-Qaeda is Islamic State. What version of sharia?
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/26/stephen-coughlin-ottawa-brief-segment-v/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v673bvCRLo8
DURATION: 18:59
[00:42] When the Muslim Brotherhood declares that it will not practice terrorism, it is because they consider themselves at the preparation and subversion stage (an allusion to the command ‘Get ready’ on their logo).
[01:01] Three duties of Islam: Enjoining the good and forbidding the bad, dawa (proselytism) and jihad.
[02:13] Remarks about Al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine and its Lone Mujahid Pocketbook. The pocketbook gave instructions on assembling bombs by using easily accessible components “in your mother’s kitchen.” Normally, the purchase of these components would go unnoticed by counter-terrorism agents. Comments about the Tsarnaev brothers who used a pressure cooker bomb for their terrorist attack at the Boston marathon in April 2013.
[05:02] Mention of some organizations listed as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s American infrastructure in the network’s internal memorandum (ISNA, MSA, NAIT, IAP that became CAIR, etc.) Stephen Coughlin makes the point that these organizations are also present in Canada.
[07:56] ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) is mostly involved with the Arab supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood while ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) organizes the Pakistani / East Indian community. ICNA has an important Deobandi influence.
[08:11] Stephen Coughlin: “If you go to the UK, where you have a huge Pakistani presence, the Maududi / Deobandi narrative kind of eclipses the Brotherhood.”
[08:39} Brief mention of Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan Al-Banna, who was invited by ICNA in Dallas on July 27, 2011. Stephen Coughlin quotes a statement made by Ramadan on this occasion:
Tariq Ramadan: “We should all be careful not to be colonized by something which is coming from this consumerist society. […] It should be us, with our understanding of Islam, our principles, colonizing positively the United States of America.”
Stephen Coughlin added that this is inconsistent with the swearing an oath of allegiance to the U.S. constitution.
[09:29] Frequently, those who try to refute the existence of an Islamist threat will ask those warning about it: ‘What version of Islamic law do you use?’ Stephen Coughlin evokes the existence of a post-modern narrative (‘There are no facts and therefore there is no absolute truth’) considering that everything is a matter of interpretation.
[11:13] Another objection to those evoking an Islamist threat: “Only those who speak classical Arabic can understand the true meaning of Islam.”
[11:20] Stephen Coughlin: “I would like to point out that if you are a threat analyst in the intelligence community, even if there is only one view of Islam that calls for terrorism, your job as a threat analyst is to know that one.”
[12:26] Stephen Coughlin: “The four of five biggest Muslim countries in the world have English as an official language. They have been translating Islamic law into English for a very long time. India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia. […] We have official English translations that are sold here. You go to the local mosque’s bookstore or local Islamic bookstore. Most of the books there are in English. If it’s good enough for someone who is Muslim to read to understand Islamic law, isn’t good enough for you? After all, your job as an analyst on terrorism is not to make a determination of what true Islam is, your job is to understand the nature of the threat, even if they are wrong.”
TARGETING THE ‘VERSION OF SHARIA’ BEING ENDORSED BY THE OIC AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
[14:08] Presentation of the manual of sharia Reliance of the Traveller whose English translation has been endorsed by Muslim authorities from Al-Azhar University (Egypt), Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.
[16:37] Mention that Al-Azhar graduates can be identified by the red ‘turban’ with a white cloth band that they wear. Youssef Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide, with the Emir of Qatar on the picture to your right.
[18:32] Stephen Coughlin addressing those who claim that the Al-Azhar’s interpretation of Islam or the principles listed in Reliance of the Traveller are not ‘the true Islam’: “If you think you could defeat their arguments based on Islamic law and published doctrine going back to the beginning, go ahead and try. But if you can’t do it with them, why are you trying to stop people who point out that’s what they believe.”
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PART 6 – Sharia law, jihad and insurgency
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/28/stephen-coughlin-on-jihad-and-insurgency-part-6-of-the-ottawa-brief/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0Qs2IOYE4
DURATION: 6:50
[00:22] Stephen Coughlin reads an endorsement for the manual of sharia Reliance of the Traveller by Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and adds the following comment regarding this manual: “If it’s good enough for you if you convert to Islam, it is good enough for you if you didn’t.”
[00:43] Stephen Coughlin points out that the Reliance of the Traveller is also endorsed by the International Fiqh Academy in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia).
THE ISLAMIST PROJECT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS AN INSURGENCY
[01:48] Stephen Coughlin quotes a portion of section o9.0 of the Reliance of the Traveller dedicated to jihad:
“Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad.”
[04:12] Stephen Coughlin quotes Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood:
“It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
[04:32] Stephen Coughlin: “This is what you are allowing to be brought in under the guise that the [Muslim] Brotherhood represents a religious movement. Are you not? This is what people are silencing you from pointing out because you are an ‘Islamophobe.’ This is an explicit political statement about … the goal is the seizure of power.”
[04:54] Stephen Coughlin compares the Islamist project as presented by Al-Banna with the notion of ‘insurgency’ as defined in a Joint Staff publication for U.S. military:
Insurgency: “The organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority.”
THE ISLAMIST ATTACK IS FIRST AND FOREMOST AN ATTACK ON YOUR WILL TO DEFEND WHAT YOU HOLD DEAR
[05:26] Stephen Coughlin: “You have U.S. code that says that is illegal. Why am I pointing this out? Because on our side, not only do we have facts, (there are laws here [in Canada] that say the same thing), not only do we have the facts but we have the law. So when the question comes up: What can we do?, […] first and foremost, the answer is you have to have the will to fight back. Because the attack is an attack on your will.”
[06:06] Stephen Coughlin: “The number one objective of jihad is the destruction of your will, the destruction of your faith.”
Stephen Coughlin indicates that this principle is explained in a book entitled The Quranic concept of war which was written by Brigadier S. K. Malik while on the Chief of Staff of the Pakistani army.
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PART 7 – We know this because they say so
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/09/29/stephen-coughlin-ottawa-brief-part-7-final-part/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EDoiGFM_II
DURATION: 3:48
[00:49] Stephen Coughlin: “When CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations] tells Muslims not to talk to the FBI, they’re simply putting into effect Islamic law that they have already validated.”
[01:30] Helping the FBI would be encouraging ‘corruption in the land,’ the term ‘corruption’ being understood as supporting what is opposed to Islamic law.
[02:19] Stephen Coughlin: “Once you find the information, the analysis is limited to just taking the statements that they made, assuming they meant what they said when it was absolutely clear, and running with it.”
INTERPRET WHAT ISLAMISTS ARE SAYING ACCORDING TO THEIR LEXICON AND NOT ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN DEFINITIONS
[03:04] Stephen Coughlin highlights the importance of interpreting what Islamists are saying according to their lexicon.
[03:09] Stephen Coughlin: “So, if they define ‘peace’ one way and you define peace another and it’s a Muslim Brothers entity, define ‘peace’ according to their rule [to understand where they are heading]. If they define ‘racism’ one way and you define ‘racism’ another, force yourself to define ‘racism’ according to how they do it. But understand that definition of ‘racism’ is not the Western definition of ‘racism.’
The terms ‘corruption’ and ‘tyrants’ referred to at around 01:30 in this video must also be understood in their proper context.
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PART 8 – Questions and answers
VIDEO http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/10/01/qe-with-stephen-coughlin-from-the-ottawa-brief/
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHW7AaiPHp8
DURATION: 16:58
