H.R. MCMASTER AVOIDS ISLAMIC JIHAD TERRORIST LABEL AGAIN, CALLS NYC JIHADIST A “MASS MURDERER”

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H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national
security adviser, referred to the Islamic terrorist suspect in Tuesday’s
deadly jihadist attack in Lower Manhattan as among a grouping of “mass
murderers.”

“Embattled” is right. McMaster is at odds with the Trump
administration’s war against jihad terror, which motivated the President
to issue a temporary ban on immigration from Muslim countries of
concern, countries which were first identified by the Obama
administration as problematic. Yet McMaster still refuses to acknowledge
the nature of this war.

It was also recently reported that returning Islamic State jihadists
were not just a threat to Britain and other parts of Europe, but that
they were also making their way back into the US, creating a threat that
is within McMaster’s jurisdiction of national security.

The Lower Manhattan attack is not the first time McMaster referred to
a jihad attack as “mass murder.” He did the same in calling the 9/11
attack a “mass murder,” with no mention of the motivation of Islamic jihad behind it.

The jihad suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, “left behind a note declaring
that the attack was perpetuated in the name of the Islamic State.”
Saipov shouted “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “Allah is greater,” during the
attack. Yet still McMaster refuses to acknowledge the role of the
Islamic religion in the attack. Yet the jihadis have made their motives
and goals clear. In the case of 9/11, the mastermind of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “revealed
that al Qaeda’s plan to kill the United States was not through military
attacks but immigration and ‘outbreeding nonmuslims’ who would use the
legal system to install Sharia law.”

McMaster thinks (or pretends to think) that “extremists” are not
religious people, despite their determination to expand the domains of
Sharia by whatever means. This misguided view veils the fact that it is
precisely Islamic religious zeal that motivates jihadists. From the
Wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia — which is the same Wahhabi ideology that
governs the Islamic State — to the terrorist state of Iran, ruled by its
religious supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, one cannot deny the
devoted religiosity of Islamic jihadists; yet McMaster remains in
denial.

“H.R. McMaster Avoids Islamic Terrorist Label Again, Calls Manhattan Jihadist a ‘Mass Murderer’”, by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, November 3, 2017:

(New York) H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled
national security adviser, referred to the Islamic terrorist suspect in
Tuesday’s deadly jihadist attack in Lower Manhattan as among a grouping
of “mass murderers.”

This despite reports that the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, left behind a
note declaring that the attack was perpetuated in the name of the
Islamic State. And witnesses heard Saipov shout “Allahu Akbar!,” Arabic
for “Allah is great,” during the terrorist assault.

McMaster has a history of minimizing the radical Islamic nature of
such attacks. Only last month, he labeled the September 11, 2001,
Islamic terrorist attacks “mass murder attacks,” instead of calling them
acts of terrorism. This reporter previously exposed numerous other
instances of McMaster minimizing the Islamic motivations of radical
Muslim terrorists.

The latest incident came during a White House press briefing on
Wednesday, when a reporter posed the following question to McMaster:

I know we’re focused on the Asia trip here, but I just wanted to talk
for a second about the President weighing in on the man who’s been
charged with mowing down pedestrians in New York City. He called for the
death penalty. Have there been any conversations in the White House
about how that could complicate prosecutors’ efforts, and even help the
defense claim that this person can’t get a fair trial?

McMaster replied (emphasis added):

What the President wants is to secure the American people from this
threat and from mass murderers like this, murderers like this. And so
what he’s asked us for are options to take a look to assess if our
tremendous law enforcement teams and our judicial system has all the
tools they need to be able to combat this threat to the American people.

So what we owe him now is we owe him options — you know, options to
take a look at to see if this is the time to reassess, change our
capabilities in this area and the area of law enforcement in
particular……

In February, CNN cited a source inside a National Security Council
meeting quoting McMaster as saying that use of the phrase “radical
Islamic terrorism” is unhelpful in working with allies to fight
terrorism.

In May, McMaster spoke on ABC’s This Week about whether Trump would
use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” in a speech that the
president was about to give in Saudi Arabia. “The president will call it
whatever he wants to call it,” McMaster said. “But I think it’s
important that, whatever we call it, we recognize that [extremists] are
not religious people. And, in fact, these enemies of all civilizations,
what they want to do is to cloak their criminal behavior under this
false idea of some kind of religious war.”

This reporter previously exposed numerous instances of McMaster’s
minimizing the Islamic motivations of radical Muslim terrorists.

Breitbart News unearthed a 2014 speech about the Middle East in which
McMaster claimed that Islamic terrorist organizations are “really
un-Islamic” and are “really irreligious organizations” who cloak
themselves in the “false legitimacy of Islam.”

Delivering the keynote address at last April’s Norwich University
ROTC Centennial Symposium, McMaster criticized “modern-day barbarians
like Daesh and al-Qaeda who cynically use a perverted interpretation of
religion to perpetuate ignorance, incite hatred, and commit the most
heinous crimes against innocents.”

Breitbart News also reported that McMaster endorsed and touted a book
that frames jihad as a largely peaceful “means to struggle or exert
effort,” such as waking up early in the morning to recite prayers. It
argues that groups like al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have
hijacked the concept of jihad to wage warfare using such tactics as
suicide bombings.

That same book calls Hamas an “Islamist political group” while
failing to categorize the deadly organization as a terrorist group and
refers to al-Qaeda attacks and anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance.”