MCMASTER & GORKA: UNFIT FOR DUTY

In 1992 Gorka moved to Hungary, where he worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Defence
while studying for a master’s degree in international relations and
diplomacy at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration (now known as the Corvinus University), which he completed in 1997. While finishing his degree he married American heiress Katharine Fairfax Cornell. In 1997, Gorka was a Partnership for Peace International Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Gorka was a Kokkalis Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University during the 1998–1999 academic year.

After returning to Hungary in 1998, Gorka served as an advisor to Viktor Orbán. In 2002, he entered into the PhD in political science at Corvinus University, completing his dissertation in 2007. Gorka is a naturalized American citizen.

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 It is unfortunate and disquieting that this denial and willful ignorance
 continues in the Trump administration. One cannot defeat an enemy that 
one does not understand, much less one that one refuses to understand. 
President Trump continues to speak about “radical Islamic terrorism” 
while hiring people who remain in Obamoid fantasyland. This must be 
clarified.

“Unfit for Duty,” by John Guandolo, Understanding the Threat, February 26, 2017:

The new National Security Advisor – Lieutenant General
Herbert Raymond McMaster – and the Counter-Terrorism advisor to the
President of the United States – Sebastian Gorka – both unequivocally
state the “terrorist” threat America faces has nothing to do with “true”
Islam.

Both men are catastrophically wrong and, therefore, are leading America down a disastrous road towards defeat.

The New York Times, Guardian, and CNN all
report Lt General McMaster told members of the National Security
Council Thursday he felt “radical Islamic terrorism” was an unhelpful
way to describe terrorism because becoming a terrorist is actually
“un-Islamic” in the first place.

In a talk he gave at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in May 2016, LtGen McMaster said,
“There is a cycle going on where groups like ISIL, who use this
irreligious ideology, you know, this perverted interpretation of
religion to justify violence, they depend on ignorance and the ability
to recruit vulnerable segments of populations to foment hatred, then use
that hatred to justify violence against innocents.”

This is incoherent and factually wrong.  LtGen McMaster wrote a book
entitled “Dereliction of Duty.”  He may want to look in the mirror to
see if he is doing the same thing in this war he accused President
Johnson of doing in Vietnam.

100% of all Islamic doctrine, from elementary, junior high, and high school Islamic text books as well as the highest authorities in Islamic jurisprudence, to include Al Azhar
University in Egypt, all clearly and doctrinally state Islam is a
“complete way of life (social, cultural, political, military,
religious)” governed by sharia (Islamic Law).  100% of all sharia
mandates jihad until the world is under Islamic rule, and 100% of sharia
only defines “jihad” as warfare against non-Muslims.

The violence Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Boston
bombers, the attackers in Paris, the Fort Lauderdale shooter, and all
the jihadis we have faced over the past 20 years quote authoritative
Islamic doctrine in support of what they do.  Al Qaeda and ISIS have
never misquoted sharia in furtherance of their actions.In the last 15
years it has been made clear – the more muslims study Islam and sharia,
the more likely they are to support and participate in jihad.

So the questions remains…what the hell is Lieutenant General McMaster
talking about because he is not talking truthfully about a real and
present danger to these United States?  He is doing exactly what our
enemy wants him to do – creating an imaginary target for us to chase
while our real enemy prepares to defeat us.

Nearly 16 years after 9/11, the Global Islamic Movement has taken
down nations, expanded its power, and defeated the United States in the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because leaders like McMaster decided they
were too busy to stop and learn the enemy threat doctrine – Sharia – and
instead have been given a counterfactual understanding of our enemy by
Islamic advisors who are all batting for the other team.

The President’s Counter-terrorism advisor, Sebastian Gorka, is “over
the moon” LtGen McMaster is the new National Security Advisor.  However,
Gorka’s lack of honesty about the Islamic threat raises much more
serious questions.

Some have been lulled into believing he is on the right track because
he uttered the word “jihad” but defeating this enemy takes more than
pretending to know what you are talking about.

Speaking at CPAC
this past weekend, Gorka stated:  “Zuhdi (Jasser) knows it better than
anybody because he understands that this isn’t about poverty or lack of
education. It’s about people who are fighting for the soul of Islam –
not a war with Islam, but a war inside Islam; as King Abdullah, as
General Sisi has said, for which version is going to win.”

Utter nonsense.  There is one version of Islam and one Sharia.
 To say otherwise is to be factually wrong, but also dangerous when
national strategies are being built off that utter nonsense.

When one’s duties include national security responsibilities, one has
a professional duty to know the enemy or do due diligence to know the
enemy.  To fail to do so makes one professionally negligent in one’s
duties.  When people die (Ft Lauderdale, Boston, Orlando, Ft Hood…)
because a person is unprofessional in his/her duties it is called
“criminal negligence” and doctors and lawyers go to jail for such
behavior.

Several years ago at a town hall presentation hosted by Washington,
D.C. radio station WMAL, Sebastian Gorka stated “99.9% of muslims do not
support terrorism (jihad)” despite a mountain of evidence and polling
data proving this comment untrue, and the fact the entire purpose of
Islam is to wage jihad until the world is dominated by Islamic rule
(sharia).

Dr. Gorka also writes in his book, Defeating Jihad, we are not at war with Islam (p.129) but our enemy is “the ideology of takfiri jihad” (p.123).

No Muslim jihadi who fought on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq
or anywhere else, nor any of the jihadis who have died in Europe in the
United States attacking us nor the jihadis we have arrested have said
they are “takfiri jihadis.”  They have said they are “Muslims” waging
“Jihad in the cause of Allah” to “establish a caliphate under sharia.”

This is what Islamic doctrine commands them to do.

On page 144 of his book, Gorka ends with the call for the United
States to spend billions of dollars supporting “Muslim reformers” in
their “ideological war to delegitimize the message of holy war against
the infidel and bolster modern interpretations of Islam.”  This
demonstrates Sebastian Gorka is either completely free of any clue of
Islamic doctrine or is intentionally lying about what Islam actually
teaches.

Since these ideas and strategies to use “moderate Muslims” to ensure
the “other version” of Islam wins are based in fantasy not reality,
these policies will necessarily fail – and have failed the United States
for 15 years.

Is that Dr. Gorka’s intention?  Does he not know that strategies to
win a war must be based in the reality of who the enemy is?  Why would
Sebastian Gorka put forth such and idea when he knows what he is saying
is untrue?

Is it possible Dr. Gorka has remained strategically incoherent for 15
years during this global war?  Is he working on behalf of some outside
entity to intentionally mislead the President of the United States, or
is he is simply putting his paycheck ahead of the American people and
his duty.

The United States will lose this war against the Global Islamic
Movement if we do not clearly define the enemy and target the enemy.  We
cannot hit a target we do not identify and cannot defeat an enemy we do
not target.

Our war fighting doctrine calls for an analysis of our enemy based on
how the enemy defines itself.  We begin our analysis there.  Something
we have not done since 9/11/01.  If we did, our entire national security
apparatus, including our military, would have been studying and
teaching authoritative sharia and more of our soldiers, Marines,
sailors, and airmen would be alive today because of it.

Keeping LtGen McMaster and Sebastian Gorka in their current positions
will ensure America remains strategically incoherent and will guarantee
our defeat in this war against the Global Islamic Movement.

As always, this war will be won or lost at the local level because our federal government is still failing us.

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General
H.R. McMaster and Deputy Asst. Sebastian Gorka are clueless when it
comes to understanding the threat of Islam. They are either unwilling or
ignorant about what is clearly laid out in Islamic law according to the
texts from leading Islamic scholars regarding Sharia and Islamic
Jurisprudence. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.