In response to a complaint from an American soldier, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has called for investigation into a course taught at US military schools that encouraged the soldiers for a “Total War” with Islam. The Pentagon has already confirmed that such a course was being taught. It was mentioned that “Hiroshima Style” tactics would be adopted to target the world of Islam. It makes one’s hair stand on end to know that the course was so specific as to mention that it were not militants but the religion of Islam that was the real threat to the US national security.
One can understand the gravity of the situation since these courses are meant for the commanders as well as the rank and file. This is a plan that reeks of the clash of civilisation thesis with the Muslim world at the receiving end of the West’s unfounded belligerence on the basis of religion. On the other hand, Jamat-ud-Dawa’s Chief Hafiz Saed’s has warned that the US has hatched a plan to bomb the holy cities of Makkah and Medina with atom bombs, something that he asserts has made Jihad obligatory on the Muslims. In view of the barbaric ideology taught to the US army, it would be disastrous to let our guard down. His warning should be taken seriously.