Posted on 05/27/2010 7:48:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'
The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. fox news
The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies.
During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in "religious terms."
He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not "terrorism," because terrorism is a "tactic," and not terror, because terror is a "state of mind" -- though Brennan's title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, includes the word "terrorism" in it. But then Brennan said that the word "jihad" should not be applied either.
"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," Brennan said.
The technical, broadest definition of jihad is a "struggle" in the name of Islam and the term does not connote "holy war" for all Muslims. However, jihad frequently connotes images of military combat or warfare, and some of the world's most wanted terrorists including Usama bin Laden commonly use the word to call for war against the West.
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Hmmm, to "purify one's community".....isn't that like "ethnic cleansing?"
When the government had that raid on Michigan militias, they had NO reservations on calling it a “Christian militia”.
I hope all those Democratic liberal women enjoy Sharia law!
This guy is toast! As soon as the MSM starts hammering him nonstop for these idiotic remarks, he’ll have no choice but to resign! /s
I know, let’s call it “Man caused disasters”. That will fix everything.
Let’s just call them “Amish”, call their man-caused disasters “non-Ordnung actions”, and learn to speak Arabic as we adjust to the thought of watching our wives and daughters beaten or murdered for showing their ankles in public.
There was never any doubt he is pro-islamist. He said so in one of his books.
Thanks in advance.
Since when did Ibrahim Hooper become the counterterror advisor to the Soetoro Administration?
Are these people willing conscious dupes or just historical ignoramuses?
Or both???
GOD HELP US!
What a load of happy horse S@!t. Since the time of the first crusades, Islam has reined terror and violence on the rest of the world. It is our folly that we do not, in fact, recognize that it is Islam, and Islam alone that threatens men.
I guarantee that his lies will be believed by some liberals and most of the MSM. Muslims, on the other hand, DO known what jihad is, even if our own countrymen do not.
No, it's HUMANITY'S enemy.
'Jihad' is just the islamic term for human sacrifice.
I still cannot see why the “politically correct” do not brand this cult’s book as hate literature.
It mandates violence and DEATH...against unbelievers, infidels and kaffirs.
How correct is that?
And they want that into our society as diversity is good?....right... so is syphilis...
Given the fact that a significant number of Muslims define and support a definition of ‘Jihad=struggle’ as permitting violence against other religionists or cultures, is a religion which advocates ‘struggle’ against other religions a legitimate religion.
In today’s world, with mass murder capability across national and geographic boundaries, these views are simply not tolerable within a global community.
IDIOTS! Next thing he’s gonna say terrorism is legit by extension of Jihad. We have elected a muslim to the WH!
"The only way America will ever be defeated by death-worshipping theocrats who've crawled out from under a Dark Ages rock is with the help of the mullahs' fifth column - academia, the media, the judiciary, public education, Hollywood and the Democratic Party.
Of the two suicide cults America confronts, liberalism is by far the more lethal."
-- Don Feder, In The War On Terror, Liberals Are More Dangerous Than Muslims -- A 9/11 meditation, September 19, 2006
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