"I try to give Scheuer's expertise the benefit of the doubt, but he keeps writing things that I worry may lend credence to Hugh Fitzgerald's (Board member of Jihadwatch.org) criticism of him as "knowing nothing about Islam". Scheuer is routinely eviscerated in conservative journals, and I try to take such commentary with a grain of salt as those writers tend to get on edge when anyone for any reason, comes out against the current administration.

However Scheuer, in "Tancredo's real point" states that "We are hated and attacked for what we do in the Muslim world, not for how we live or what we think." The implication is that if we yield our foreign policy and allow it to be set by Jihadis, they will leave us alone. This smacks of Chamberlinesque style appeasement, and completely misunderstands the Jihadi goal: to extend the Caliphate until the entire world labors under the shadow of Sharia law. This goal is plain in the statements of nearly every Islamist FTO on State's list. It is plain in the Qu'ran and Sunnah, and it is plain in the actions the Islamists take.

Scheuer goes on to characterize Bin Laden's jihad as "defensive" in his latest piece. This is false on its face, and is a statement that buys wholesale the propaganda that Al-Qa'ida is selling. Bin Laden's (or more accurately Abd'allah Azam's) movement is *not* defensive, it is aggressively, tirelessly and relentlessly *offensive* and it will not stop until it is utterly destroyed, convinced of the futility of its pursuits, or achieves absolute victory, and every kufr under the sun either says the shahadda, pays the jizya and accepts dhimmi status, or dies.

How Scheuer, with his years of experience and immersion in Islamic culture and terrorism in particular, could miss this, is utterly beyond me. Has he read the Qu'ran? Does he know Arabic? Does he read the Haddith? I would think, after 20 years heading up our hunt for UBL, he would have. His statements on this journal make me wonder."