This is Cognitive Warfare

Richard Landes on the conduct of cognitive warfare :

...we don’t recognize the nature of the foe, partly because we are so committed to the rules and values of civil society that we have difficulty even acknowledging that a state of war exists. Most of us are too secular to appreciate the beliefs involved. And as a result of this ignorance, we misidentify and badly analyze the phenomenon in question.

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Western purveyors of news are, of course, a strategic target for jihadi cognitive warriors: Journalists are the main shapers of Western public opinion, and, it turns out, they are highly susceptible to intimidation and manipulation. As a result, the mainstream news media have, surely unwittingly but nonetheless consistently, played a crucial role in mainstreaming jihadi themes in the Western public sphere, even as they disguise the source and nature of these themes. A study of perhaps the single most powerful attack in the cognitive war of global jihad and its aftermath offers a detailed insight into the ways in which this has occurred. It illustrates the weaknesses of our media, as well as the critical but obscured relationship between jihad and the so-called Israel problem.

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Confronting the Cognitive Conflict Clash (CCC)

I have mentioned previously the need for Cognitive Combat warriors for there is a requirement of this generation to confront the Cognitive Conflict Clash (CCC) in my conceptualization *.

In the meantime, I found this as a good graphic illustration of the problem:

The West blinds itself and refuses to see.

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Another formulation of the crisis:

...primary spokespeople for the progressive causes of human freedom, equality, rights and dignity have lost battle after battle in a cognitive war launched by an astonishingly regressive foe. Global Islamism and Jihad openly champion intolerance of the “Other,” sacred violence, misogyny, homophobia, theocracy, scapegoating and hatred of other religions...Islamist Jihadi apocalyptic discourse has, in this last decade, played an astonishingly prominent role in defining 21^st century narratives, and has established major centers of discourse in both the Muslim and the Western public sphere. This has permitted a succession of stunningly stupid moves by the West which have not only weakened democratic culture, but strengthened radicalization is the Islamic world...The pattern emerged that when faced with angry Muslims demanding “respect,” Western moderates backed down and Western radicals sided with the Islamists...our passivity in the face of Islamist maximalist claims has hardened over time into a strategic consensus: the best way to deal with Muslim violence is to make friends with (appease) it; sooner attack the critic of Islam for provoking the violence.

At the same time as a broad range of our cognitive elite has adopted these paralyzing measures of appeasement, making it difficult to even perceive the existence of a cognitive war, a more militant branch has actively mobilized on the side of the Jihadi enemy. In particular, “left-wing” radicals have adopted the Palestinian narrative of suffering, in which the Israelis are the Nazis and the Palestinians are the Jews, in which the existence of Israel represents the single greatest obstacle to world peace and justice...And among the demands that the Islamists make on those who would befriend them, is the acceptance of this particular scapegoating, “lethal narrative,” aimed not only at justifying and inciting the extermination of the Jews, but also the subjection of the kuffar (infidels) the world over. This anti-Zionism has become almost a shibboleth of identity for the mobilized, progressive left in the 21^st century...

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He's Home But Where Is Israel?

An Arab hungerstriker returned home but if look carefully at the flag of his terror organization, you'll notice (in the green circle) the homeland of the Jews, whether in Judea and Samaria or Israel in its pre-67 borders, is...gone:

That's Cis-Jordan, the territory of the Mandate for Palestine west of the Jordan River (while the Hashemite Kingdom took over Trans-Jordan in 1922), in that circle and it just happens to include every last centimeter of Israel.

Not much room for any Jews and no room for peace.

Just that all those supporting the human rights of "political prisoners" - and we all know they are terrorists, active or supporters - that in the end, their human rights and civil liberties means none for the Jews at best and at worse, death, maiming and destruction of property.

This has been a message from the Combatants for Countering the Cognitive Discourse Campaign.

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