Posted on 06/02/2010 2:11:52 PM PDT by ventanax5
During an address on Thursday May 27, 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan, the Obama administration’s lead counterterrorism adviser, provided a transparently bowdlerized perspective on jihad. Brennan’s statements were breathtaking in their profound cognitive dissonance regarding this uniquely Islamic institution, which continues to wreak daily havoc in our era.
Despite over 15,350 jihad terror attacks by Muslims worldwide, since the cataclysmic acts of jihad terrorism committed against the United States itself, on September 11, 2001, Brennan insisted,
Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children.
Closing this willfully blind circle of “reasoning,” Brennan further asserted,
…describing our enemy in religious terms would lend credence to the lie propagated by Al Qaeda and its affiliates to justify terrorism – that the United States is somehow at war against Islam
Brennan’s views—a dangerous concatenation of hard Left, Islamophilic cultural relativism, and the relentless, successful “Islamic dawa” efforts of generations of jihadists—represent the apotheosis of phenomena analyzed with uncompromising lucidity in Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad.”
(Excerpt) Read more at speroforum.com ...
I once had a reaction to fattal...in a Persian restaurant...thought I would hurl for days...
“meaning to purify oneself or one?s community”
Apparently this moron doesn’t know how jihadists “purify” there community. Hint: the same way the Nazis wanted to “purify” their race: Kill all the Jews (and Christians and then eventually each other).
Stunningly idiotic.
Or maybe he does, in which case it is stunningly evil.
Hmm, both?
Mod: Can we fix the title spelling?
Thanks for the link. This book is sitting as #2 on my nightstand.
“…move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing…until you reach all the power centers…”
– Fethullah Gluon 1999, founder of 85 US taxpayer-supported Islamic schools.
(http://thelastcrusade.org/2010/05/24/bill-gates-funds-gulen-islamist-movement/)
A lie becomes a truth by omission.
The spelling is correct.
“Antoine Fattal”
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