Posted on 05/28/2010 6:25:29 AM PDT by nmh
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.
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LOL!!!
Terrorist, Islamists don't share THAT vision.
Jihad is clearly expressed in the Qu'ran. Some are "cafeteria style" Muslims and others go by the book!
They are copying Clinton, “oral sex is not sex”, only they are using Islam. In the Qu'ran, what "terrorists" are doing is using jihad, terrorism to take over. Of course some Muslims could care less and pick and chose what they want to believe. If a Muslim goes by the book, the Qu'ran, a terrorist, a jihadist, is following the Islamic RELIGION.
Anyone who makes a statement like the above should be fired and any administration that believes this crap should be impeached.
Where's John Bolton when you need him!
One thing I agree with: this should never have been called a “war on terror.” Why? Because I believe in the use of terror as a last resort against my enemies. It worked in WWII at Hiroshima and I suspect it could work again today in our war against the Islamofascists.
Meanwhile the Jihad's continue to make bombs and planning terror acts against America...
The language of Islam is very Clintonian. It all depends on what the meaning of is is.
And worse for us, the double-talking snakes of academia further obfuscate the discussion with their word bending.
Bush did us no favors by starting us off with his “It’s a religion of peace” nonsense. It plainly is not, and never has been.
What does Brennan think about this: Al-taqiyya
Al-taqiyya and dissimulation are words used for a practice of Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims. All but some of the most fundamental Muslims consider the act of Al-taqiyya or lying to non-Muslims to be a good work. This is very important when one remembers that, in Islam, salvation is determined by good works. This means that a Muslim lying to a non-Muslim is that Muslim doing a good work to earn salvation. It is almost equivalent to a Christian accepting Jesus as his savior. One of the big differences is that a Christian only needs to accept Jesus as his savior once to become saved forever but a Muslim must do his good works consistently and repeatedly to earn his salvation with the except of the greatest work of dying while fighting non-Muslims.
Al-taqiyya and dissimulation are words used for a practice of Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims. All but some of the most fundamental Muslims consider the act of Al-taqiyya or lying to non-Muslims to be a good work. This is very important when one remembers that, in Islam, salvation is determined by good works. This means that a Muslim lying to a non-Muslim is that Muslim doing a good work to earn salvation. It is almost equivalent to a Christian accepting Jesus as his savior. One of the big differences is that a Christian only needs to accept Jesus as his savior once to become saved forever but a Muslim must do his good works consistently and repeatedly to earn his salvation with the except of the greatest work of dying while fighting non-Muslims.
http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html
“...violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,”
...that’s a lie...the 9-11 plotters came from comfortable families...some even had master’s degrees...
John Brennan is in step with Obama.
When did Obama EVER step foot on ground zero?
Where was Obama educated?
Indonesia at a Madress school.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
I meant to add that even Snopes has disappointed me.
They are denying the truth about Obama!
Friends of ours from Indonesia are familiar with the school he atttended. It IS the radical ISLAM. They were horrified that this was not being highlighted when Obama ran for President.
This guy is do ridding stupid. Jihad is not about economics and poverty, most of the suicide bombers come from wealthy Muslim families. We have to get rid of this administration fast.
Snopes has been exposed as a very liberal couple, basically in their basement, with no more information than you and I could get with a google search.
“The language of Islam is very Clintonian. It all depends on what the meaning of is is.”
Yes, Obama and crew are capitalizing on wordsmithing.
They will often tell you WHAT you want to hear and DO the OPPOSITE in their actions.
“Snopes has been exposed as a very liberal couple, basically in their basement, with no more information than you and I could get with a google search.”
THAT makes sense. I didn’t know that.
Obama is a closet Muslim.
Interesting...so if Jihad is valid, then why are the Crusades looked down on? Remember what happened when Bush used the word Crusade? These double standards are ridiculous.
It drives me crazy the way the WH and media all harp on a subject (the wording of which is agreed to in advance) and then try to “sell” it.
The latest is that “Obama cares” about the Gulf spill. No he doesn’t and he hasn’t. The press has become a ubiquitous version of Winston Smith, rewriting history on a day by day, hour by hour basis. Thank God for talk radio and Fr.
Now we know why he is so scared of those people clinging to their religion and guns. O’s scared that that they will declare a legitimate Jihad on him and his cronies.
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