Posted on 02/24/2017 10:14:20 PM PST by Pinkbell
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world.
The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council on Thursday, in his first “all hands” staff meeting, that the label “radical Islamic terrorism” was not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic,” according to people who were in the meeting.
That is a repudiation of the language regularly used by both the president and General McMaster’s predecessor, Michael T. Flynn, who resigned last week after admitting that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about a phone call with a Russian diplomat.
It is also a sign that General McMaster, a veteran of the Iraq war known for his sense of history and independent streak, might move the council away from the ideologically charged views of Mr. Flynn, who was also a three-star Army general before retiring.
Wearing his Army uniform, General McMaster spoke to a group that has been rattled and deeply demoralized after weeks of upheaval, following a haphazard transition from the Obama administration and amid the questions about links to Russia, which swiftly engulfed Mr. Flynn.
General McMaster, several officials said, has been vocal about his views on dealing with Islamic militancy, including with Mr. Trump, who on Monday described him as “a man of tremendous talent, tremendous experience.” General McMaster got the job after Mr. Trump’s first choice, Robert S. Harward, a retired Navy vice admiral, turned it down.
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Agreed. That’s why I disagree with those who say it isn’t a big deal. It was a big deal in the campaign, and McMaster’s NSC shouldn’t have a different policy than Trump.
Looks like it was a muslim brotherhood coup against Flynn
Did they even vet this guy or ask him what he calls the enemy for God’s sake?
>>He sounds like the kind of guy who represents the ‘military industrial complex’ that wants to use Islamic friendly terms so business can be transacted with Arab money states like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc. Follow the $$$$$ on this.
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Strikes me the same way.
The NYT plus unnamed sources is an unbeatable combo.
“while his head of the NSC is telling the staff under him not to say it that it’s wrong”
You are missing the point.
This is New York Times fake news.
How could they possibly know what McMaster told his staff?
I think he will end up calling ISIS what President Trump wants him to call ISIS when its all said and done.
“because there are few people in this world as capable of understanding simple things in the way that Trump does.”
What??? Every single freeper doesn’t seem to have trouble with that as well as the 60+ millions who voted for him.
If this is true, McMaster may be another mistake.
Related thread:
NSA pick McMaster told the National Defense University that “the Islamic State is not Islamic”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3527516/posts
Moderate Muslims are heretics, and ISIS is more closely aligned with true Islam, i.e. convert, submit, or die.
But the Koran demands these acts. Apparently he is a scholar of the Koran and knows what parts are not true. However the Koran defines itself as the word of Allah and not to be doubted least one suffer the sword.
I find his statement a a faulted logic.
Because right now the various agencies are leaking like a sieve because of establishment/Obama holdovers.
That’s GW Bush BS lingo. Al Qaeda is Not Islamic he said.
I think Trump is trying to be friendly with those countries and if I understand correctly what the POTUS said about Syria, the Arab countries will pay for the “safe zones” he mentioned.
The Saudis, Gulf Arabs etc. financed the anti-Assad jihadists that turned Syria into a hellhole and drove people out of the country, creating a security threat for other nations.
Perfect! “Kill himmmm....KILL HIMMMMMM!” (”What have I dome”)
I agree with you. I just don’t understand why we continue to give the NYT credibility. Trump denied them access to today’s press briefing. What does he know that we don’t know?
“Looks like it was a muslim brotherhood coup against Flynn”
Exactly. The establishment hated that Flynn wanted no cold war with Russia and saw islam for exactly what it was.
Now we have the exact opposite, all the Obama staffers are back in the loop and aren’t getting flushed.
That’s a coup.
“Another of our modern Generals who drink the Kool-Aid that Islam is peace.”
Yes, but that’s pretty much been the price of moving up in the DoD for a long time now. It wasn’t just Obama. The Bushes also promoted the “religion of peace” nonsense. Anyone who didn’t fall into line wasn’t likely to move up to three star rank. That’s for sure.
This is a BIG deal. Trump kept bashing Hillary over the head during the campaign for refusing to call islamic terrorists, islamic terrorists.
And now one of Trumps underlings, the main guy to advise him on how to fight this enemy refuses to name him correctly???
Are you kidding me? That should be one of the prime requisite for the job.
“Because right now the various agencies are leaking”
The Obama loyalists are leaking.
Trust them at your peril.
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