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Donald Trump’s team puts ‘radical Islam’ front and center in terror fight
The Washington Times ^ | November 23, 2016 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 11/23/2016 5:57:41 PM PST by jazusamo

President Obama has long been criticized by national security hawks and a Republican presidential field led by Donald Trump for refusing to say the words “radical Islam” to describe threats posed by terrorist groups such as the Islamic State.

That reluctance won’t be a problem for the president-elect’s national security team, which is flush with nominees who can be expected to employ the term regularly.

The shift will test two deeply opposed worldviews on how to defeat jihadi terrorist groups. Mr. Obama argued that the term “radical Islam” plays into the propaganda narrative of the Islamic State and other U.S. enemies, falsely suggesting that the West was at war with the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims. Mr. Trump, incoming National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn and many others say the U.S. and its allies can never win the war on terrorism if they fail to honestly call out the enemy by name.

“For eight years, the Obama administration sidestepped the issue of properly defining the threat against the West and its allies and used the nebulous term ‘violent extremists’ to describe our enemies,” said Bill Roggio, an editor of the Long War Journal at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; flynn; islam; islamofascism; muslimbrotherhood; nsa; obama; radicalislam; terrorists; trump; trumpgwot; trumpstillwinning; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain
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We're about to have a President that will call the threat of radical Islam what it is. The terrorist supporting Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR will no longer be rubbing elbows as advisors with the President in the WH.
1 posted on 11/23/2016 5:57:41 PM PST by jazusamo
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Precisely where the barbaric bastards belong.

             

2 posted on 11/23/2016 5:59:49 PM PST by tomkat
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To: jazusamo

Per Erdogan, there is only Islam. I tend to agree.


3 posted on 11/23/2016 6:00:53 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Agreed.


4 posted on 11/23/2016 6:04:50 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: FreedomPoster

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwim5r—p8DQAhUhxVQKHX5ZA7EQFggeMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fellison.house.gov%2F&usg=AFQjCNFHMrZR8QpvoHOP_npeAIkPxo2obQ

Start with this POS


5 posted on 11/23/2016 6:05:38 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: jazusamo

I am reading Gen. Flynn’s “Field of Fight” and it is apparent
that he knows who the enemy is...and so does Trump.


6 posted on 11/23/2016 6:08:50 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: jazusamo

I’m heading back over to the UAE next week for work. I left just before the election and it will be real interesting to hear first hand the reactions over there to President elect Trump. :)


7 posted on 11/23/2016 6:22:08 PM PST by Shark24 (.)
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To: jazusamo

finally a president who promises to try to defend us
instead of importing the enemy troops to invade us

better late than never.
but since Obama and Company have brought in so many dangerous young men of fighting age ....be prepared to defend yourself and friends and community

we aren’t out of danger yet. far far from it.


8 posted on 11/23/2016 6:22:29 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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I’m glad they are finally mentioning it, but “radical Islam” is redundant. There is no other kind of Islam. Even the Turkish poo-bah says that.


9 posted on 11/23/2016 6:22:36 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: jazusamo

Wait for the new ROE (something I mentioned a LONG time ago when we were not very up on Trump at FR).

Our fighting men and women will be able to actually SHOOT at the enemy!


10 posted on 11/23/2016 6:22:46 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: jazusamo

There is no radical Islam.


11 posted on 11/23/2016 6:27:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: jazusamo

It is totally appropriate, as that is indeed the greatest threat we face.


12 posted on 11/23/2016 6:28:27 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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“Per Erdogan, there is only Islam. I tend to agree.”

Agreed That is the enemy.


13 posted on 11/23/2016 6:44:11 PM PST by ConsCA
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14 posted on 11/23/2016 6:48:49 PM PST by FreedomUS
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To: jazusamo

I’m so happy Trump will have a National Security Advisor who understands that the threat is inherent in Islam. I would prefer they call it theocratic Islam if they need a modifier to clarify the problem of be diplomatic. “Radical” is another way of perpetuating the “hijacked a peaceful religion” meme.


15 posted on 11/23/2016 6:48:57 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Note to Flynn and Mattis: that also includes Turkey and the palestinians...


16 posted on 11/23/2016 6:51:16 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: ConsCA

So is Erdogan.


17 posted on 11/23/2016 6:52:24 PM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him); Charles Martel for President)
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18 posted on 11/23/2016 7:00:49 PM PST by FreedomUS
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To: ari-freedom

Arabs in Palestine have called for jihad war at least since 1929...


19 posted on 11/23/2016 7:02:46 PM PST by FreedomUS
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To: jazusamo
Trump Already saved the USA and freedom

1.Trump stopped Hillary Clinton from becoming president.Hillary was going to flood the USA with new Muslim and other 3rd world immigrants . There are 7 billion people in the world most of them in poverty .Do the math.Most people have no idea the bullet we dodged.Hillary was planning on giving immigrants executive amnesty all of them.
2. Trump stopped TPP. TPP would have destroyed U.S. sovereignty.
3. Hillary welcomed the whole world to move to America starting with Syrian Muslims and the rest of the Muslims (FYI there are close to 1.5 billion Muslims in the world in 57 countries Muslims/Islam took over and genocided the people of those countries who were there previously )
So Trump already saved America from Islam with his Muslim immigration ban , the wall ,etc.

4. Apple, HP , Ford and other companies are surrendering to Trump already saying they will make things in America again.

5. Hillary has been a long time hard core communist . So Trump saved America and your property from this Hillary Clinton = chavez.

6. There were a least 5 ways that Hillary Clinton was going to use to destroy America as I detailed some above which Trump saved us Americans from . Trump saved America,Americans,freedom , and western civilization nothing less than that.

It's amazing that even on this forum many buy the liberal media lies that Trump changed his mind on this or that or that his minion said this or that and Trump has not even had power yet nor taken any actions and the things I say above Trump has confirmed in the direct messages I saw on youtube from President elect Trump..

And all of you under Hillary would even have your life , your property your freedom in jeopardy under Hillary and you want to doubt Trump? you must be never Trumpers or liberals/democrats(I'm only saying this to those criticizing Trump not the great pro-Trump people here ).

Count your blessings because we dodged the Hillary bullet, the most evil creature that I can think of.
Many more Trump accomplishment already but I don't have time nor the space to post them all here. `


20 posted on 11/23/2016 7:09:28 PM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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