ANOTHER TRUMP LOUSY PICK? NSA’S MCMASTER MISUNDERSTANDS ISLAM: ISLAMIC STATE USES “PERVERTED INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION”
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
You can see McMaster say this beginning at the four-minute mark:
“We are engaged today, as General George C. Marshall’s generation was
engaged, against enemies who pose a great threat to all civilized
peoples. As our World War II generation defeated Nazi Fascism and
Japanese imperialism, and as later generations defeated Communist
totalitarianism, we will defeat today’s enemies, including terrorist
organizations like Daesh, who cynically use a perverted interpretation
of religion to incite hatred and justify horrific cruelty against
innocents.” — Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, speech to Virginia Military
Institute, Center for Leadership and Excellence, November 21, 2016
In this video
also, from May 2016, McMaster says this same thing. At 14:43, McMaster
refers to “groups like ISIL, who use this irreligious ideology, this
perverted interpretation of religion to justify violence. They depend on
ignorance, and the ability to recruit vulnerable segments of
populations to foment hatred, and then use that hatred to justify
violence against innocents.”
This could be Barack Obama or John Kerry speaking.
As I explained here,
this was during the Obama regime, when that was the official policy of
the U.S. government, but President Trump has repeatedly criticized his
predecessor (and his 2016 election opponent) for not being willing to
call the problem of jihad terror by its right name. Since he has become
President, he has repeatedly reiterated his determination to eradicate
“radical Islamic terrorism.” If McMaster genuinely holds the view that
the Islamic State is not Islamic, then he is a disastrous pick as
National Security Adviser, and will continue the willful ignorance of
the Obama administration, hamstringing efforts to understand, and
counter effectively, the motives and goals of the enemy.
_________________________________________________
SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-the-mcmaster-pick-score-one-for-the-swamp