Obama's Counterterrorism Adviser Calls Jihad "Legitimate Tenet of Islam"

The caliphate in the White House. It makes you wonder what the Obama administration would have called the 19 jihadis on 911. Frustrated illegal alien ......pilots?

Direct from the "you can't make this stuff up" department:

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam' FOX

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. 

Brennan defined the enemy as members of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and "its terrorist affiliates."

But Brennan argued that it would be "counterproductive" for the United States to use the term, as it would "play into the false perception" that the "murderers" leading war against the West are doing so in the name of a "holy cause." 

"Moreover, 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," he said. 

The comment comes after Brennan, in a February speech in which he described his respect for the tolerance and devotion of Middle Eastern nations, referred to Jerusalem on first reference by its Arabic name, Al-Quds. 

"In all my travels the city I have come to love most is al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come together," Brennan said at an event co-sponsored by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Islamic Center at New York University and the Islamic Law Students Association at NYU.

Comments

[Cate]

Way to spin it, dude. I guess he forgets that while jihad IS a legitimate tenet of Islam, the terrorist attacks around the world are all based on their "religion", and the fact that according to the Quran, all non-believers should be killed. It's jihad, baby! And calling Jerusalem by it's Arabic name, al-Quds? Give me a break.

[Revnant Dream]

This guy owes me a new BS meter. It exploded 2 paragraphs in.

[Laura L]

Pathetic. This guy should not be heading an agency responsible for safeguarding America.
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"The comment comes after Brennan, in a February speech in which he described his respect for the tolerance and devotion of Middle Eastern nations, referred to Jerusalem on first reference by its Arabic name, Al-Quds".
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Just ask the Coptic Christians of Egypt and the Christians of Lebanon who have been largely driven out among many other non-muslims peoples in the Middle East, just how tolerant it is.

[Claudia]

Too bad we apparently no longer prosecute practitioners of treason, because John Brennan is a walking guidebook on how to commit it. Terrifying that someone like that is in his position. Terrifying -- but given the Islamist apologist in the White House, tragically not surprising. Bless you for the work you're doing, Pamela.

[Jimmy CrackCorn]

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary says:
Jihad,
A holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.

idontcair

"top counterterrorism adviser"???

Why not find a counter-terrorism adviser who doesn't have brain damage? We spend a lot of tax dollars on these counter-productive circus monkeys.

[Martel]

In the year 1776 he would have been taken out and hanged for treason. And doesn't this guy speak arabic? Didn't he recently address some 'slime group where he started out in arabic and then commented in English "don't tell the non-arabs what I just said"? Amazing that all this shit is happening right in front of peoples' faces and we're going to just accept this shit? NO WAY

[auntie izlam]

This guy is following the muslim-loving POTUS' lead.
Get him out of office in November & problem solved. Can't be soon enough, look at all the damage this idiot has caused in a year.
I'm sure he'll go down as the most incompetent & hated president in history.

[No Sharia]

Al-Qaeda (pronounced /ælˈkaɪdə/ al-KYE-də or /ælˈkeɪdə/ al-KAY-də; Arabic: القاعدة‎, al-qāʿidah, "the base"), alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, is a terrorist Islamist group founded sometime between August 1988[6] and late 1989.[7] It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless arm[8] and a fundamentalist Sunni movement calling for global Jihad.

Warfare (Jihad bil Saif)
Within classical Islamic jurisprudence - the development of which is to be dated into the first few centuries after the prophets death[18]—jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates, rebels, highway robbers and dissenters renouncing the authority of Islam.[19] The primary aim of jihad as warfare is not the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam by force, but rather the expansion and defense of the Islamic state.

Oath
I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

There are countless witnesses in the past decade. Enough is enough.

[dented]

I can not wait to see those diseased contaminats operatives in the WH banished to the nearest Asylum, locked up and the key thrown away. Bring it on!

[dented]

chucks up the missing 'n' and steals back the escaped 's'.

[Jackson Pearson]

What bullshit...
But, what else can we expect from staffers that work for a president that's a closet Muslim!!!

[ModerateMark]

The guy is saying that the terrorists that are killing Americans are nothing but murderers. So what. This is news??? You've got to be kidding. Ruppert the Australian must be thinking..."this is too easy," "American party loyalists will believe anything." Fox (Armageddon) News has the nuts all exited over nothing. What else is new. Fox...the biggest name in propaganda! LOL.

[Imnotanumber]

Does anyone in this White House see a problem inside of Islam?

Every day Obamo is in the White Hosue is a bummer.

[Jonas Pell]

maybe not actually treason but close enough. More muslim arsekissing by Obama,Inc.

[atheisttoday]

Yes, do not call them Jihadists or Islamists. Call them -- Muslims.