Validating Major Coughlin, By Andrew G. Bostom
“It is a bitter irony that while Major Coughlin has apparently been terminated by the Pentagon for sharing his “hard to refute” and well-received analyses within the military, Hamid—a jihadist turned reformer—validates Coughlin’s thesis, stating plainly that,
These doctrines [of jihad] are not taken out of context, as many apologists for Islamism argue: They are central to the [Islamic] faith and ethics of millions of Muslims, and are currently being taught as part of the standard curriculum in many Islamic educational systems in the Middle East as well as in the West.”