Also on this page What Is Kitman? and others.

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"Portia" has been doing mighty and interesting writing for Sixth Column.  Here are some of her best.  These continue on Portia Page 2.

What Is Kitman?

Long before Freud and Jung, Muslims understood and engaged in "psy ops," military psychological operations that were developed and are being used to confuse, confound, and overcome the enemy. Kitman are psychological strategies that have been in play for centuries. You will recognize some of these as they are applied to contemporary events: the Palestinian conflict, the war on "terrorism," the women's rights movement, multiculturalism and tolerance and so on.

I would remind all of the kitman, strategies of misdirection that Muslims have perfected over the centuries.

Kitman Strategies:

1. Outwitting by 'diversion of the subject and obfuscation aided at times with a mystical reference to God or Allah.'

2. Role playing as victims: claiming to 'the victim of religious discrimination and intolerance during debate or discussion.'

3. Manipulating ambiguity - condemning in ambiguous terms and praising Muslims that engage in suicide and 'martyr' operations. However rarely will condemnation of a specific act occur and direct questions will be skillfully evaded.

4. Diversion - casual irrelevant counter references to how some Muslim group or Islamic principe is being trampled -- example the poor Palestinians are "at the mercy of US foreign policy and the U.S. is to blame for supporting Israel, thus causing terrorism."

5. Demanding 'evidence' - a type of 'cognitive denial' by repetitive and extreme requests for 'evidence' and 'proof'. In cases of national security, such 'evidence' can not be revealed. When revealed, the 'evidence' is deemed bogus or not relevant.

6. Tactical denial - rather than admitting that a proposition concerning a state of affairs can be partly true, a denial will be made in absolute terms. 'It is impossible to be a Muslim and a terrorists,' which is false and 'Islam forbids suicide', which is true, but irrelevant to the discussion as suicide or martyrdom attacks are not forbidden in the Koran.

7. Exploiting cognitive dissonance - attempts to baffle interviewers and the audience as they resort to double talk, 'cliches and platitudes' concerning Islam. A state of cognitive dissonance exists when holding two contradictory beliefs while attempting to resolve them. An example - confusion occurs when attempting to process both the claim that Islam is a 'peaceful religion' and the dissonant facts of the horrific Islamic terrorists acts and operations.

8. The Islamic 'Defense' Script - Muslim spokespersons the world over repeat the same scripted platitudes such as 'Islam is tolerant and peace loving', 'the veil offers Muslim women more freedom than those in the West', precluding further examination of jihad or the real status of women in Islam.

'Islam has been hijacked', a 'small group of fundamentalists have hijacked a great religion,' a 'tiny minority' are engaged in terrorism' are examples of platitudes or misconceptions repeated by the uncritical media and Western politicians.

Don't be taken in. Read the rest to learn about Kitman and its companion taqiyya.