But, but, but, doesn’t Jihad Johnny like to say, “Jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam, an inner struggle?”
RAYMOND IBRAHIM Last Tuesday, “during an event at the Council of Foreign Relations, Brennan was asked about the ‘war of ideas’ surrounding Islam, which the questioner said many Americans tend to equate with violence.” The CIA chief, (sounding every bit like the Muslim convert he allegedly is), responded by saying that al-Qaeda’s ideology is “a perverse and very corrupt interpretation of the Qur’an”; that “al-Qaeda has hijacked” Islam; that “they have really distorted the teachings of Muhammad.” Even so, “that ideology, that agenda of al-Qaeda,” confirmed Brennan, “has gained resonance and following in many parts of the world.”
So what is the CIA chief’s explanation as to why such a “perverse and very corrupt” understanding of Islam—one that has “distorted the teachings of Muhammad”— resonates among Muslims?
He gives none—other than to say that this ideology is “fed a lot of times by, you know, political repression, by economic, you know, disenfranchisement, by, you know, lack of education and ignorance, so there—there are a number of phenomena right now that I think are fueling the fires of, you know, this ideology.”
Interestingly, if you watch the video clip below of Brennan talking, you will note that he only “you knows” in the above quotation (four times) and right before it, when he says that al-Qaeda has “distorted the teachings of Muhammad, you know, for violent purposes.”
Could Brennan be self-conscious of his own equivocations—hence all these stilted “you knows” in one sentence?
Could he be aware of the Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009? It found that “Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.”
At any rate, this is all déjà vu. Back in May 2010, I closely examined Brennan’s apologetics on jihad in an article that, in light of these recent remarks of his, is just as applicable today as it was nearly four years ago. It follows:
Obama’s Top Counterterror Adviser’s Inability to Think Outside the Box Bodes Disaster
“The greatest hurdle Americans need to get over in order to properly respond to the growing threat of radical Islam is purely intellectual in nature; specifically, it is epistemological, and revolves around the abstract realm of ‘knowledge.’ Before attempting to formulate a long-term strategy to counter radical Islam, Americans must first and foremost understand Islam, particularly its laws and doctrines, the same way Muslims understand it—without giving it undue Western (liberal) interpretations. This is apparently not as simple as expected: all peoples of whatever civilizations and religions tend to assume that other peoples more or less share in their worldview, which they assume is objective, including notions of right and wrong, good and bad. …. [T]he secular, Western experience has been such that people respond with violence primarily when they feel they are politically, economically, or socially oppressed. While true that many non-Western peoples may fit into this paradigm, the fact is, the ideologies of radical Islam have the intrinsic capacity to prompt Muslims to violence and intolerance vis-à-vis the ‘other,’ irrespective of grievances…. Being able to understand all this, being able to appreciate it without any conceptual or intellectual constraints is paramount for Americans to truly understand the nature of the enemy and his ultimate goals.”
Such were the words that opened my testimony to Congress. One year later, none other than President Obama’s top counter-terror adviser, John Brennan, has come to personify the approach I warned against, that is, the misguided phenomenon of westernizing Islamic concepts.
In other words, despite the fact that Islamists describe all their goals in “religious terms,” Brennan sees them as naught more than victims of the system. And why is that? Because Brennan believes that “political, economic and social forces”—the three I specifically stressed in my excerpt above—are the only precipitators to violence. So jihadis can openly articulate their violent bloodlust through religious terms all they want, it matters not: Brennan and his ilk have their intellectual blinders shut tight and refuse to venture outside the box.
Imagine having a CIA Director who thinks like this…
The President’s strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not “terrorism” because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is not “terror” because terror is a state of mind, and as Americans we refuse to live in fear. 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.
Or this…
“The U.S. should encourage greater assimilation of the Hezbollah terrorist organization into the Lebanese government,” argued President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan. Outside of al-Qaeda, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah has the distinction of having killed the most Americans in terror attacks.
John Brennan, like a good Muslim, says, “Terrorists should not be called jihadists because jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqM4rK5uFoQ
Inasmuch as he is correct in saying ”jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community”—he greatly errs in the latter clause, by projecting his own notions of what constitutes “holy,” “legitimate,” and “innocent” onto Islam.
In Islam, such terms are often antithetical to the Judeo-Christian/Western understanding. Indeed, the institution of jihad, according to every authoritative Islamic book on jurisprudence, is nothing less than offensive warfare to spread Sharia, a cause seen as both “legitimate” and “holy” in Islam. Jihadis regularly seek to “purify” themselves and their communities by purging them of “infidels” and their influences. As for “innocence,” by simply being a non-Muslim infidel, one is already guilty in Islam.
As for Brennan calling the terrorist affiliates “murderers,” would he also be willing to apply that epithet to their prophet Muhammad, who was wont to send assassins to, well, murder his critics, including poets and one old woman whose body was dismembered by her Muslim assailants—assailants who were no less convinced that they were involved in a “holy cause” than were the 9/11 hijackers?
It should be further noted that this tendency to project one’s own cultural norms and priorities onto others is the height of arrogance and ethnocentrism—precisely what liberals constantly warn against. Yet the irony is that “open-minded” proponents of cultural relativism are also the ones most prone to westernizing Islam. When Brennan insists that jihadis are really not motivated by religion but rather are products of “political, economic and social forces,” is this total dismissal of the “other” and his peculiar motivations (in favor of Western paradigms) not the epitome of cultural arrogance?
Listen to Brennan wax on about the “peace and tolerance” of Islam, even calling Jerusalem by it’s Arabic name “al-Quds.”
This maggot should bow his head in shame and seek forgiveness from the families who have lost loved ones. Then look at the maimed, asking for their forgiveness for his treasonous act. SHAME on you Mr Brennan SHAM on you.
May GOD forgive you, because the people of America won’t
He is a Raghead convert which makes him an enemy and traitor to the rest of the world. He can’t even bring himself to refer to Jerusalem by its proper name calling it Al Quds instead. Watch out for him he will betray the US and Israel.
He can fuck off.
How is not just a holy war bent on conquering? if it was what he said then they would have just been staying in their own lands while fighting “evil” Europe.
But no, they conquered different parts of europe (parts of eastern Europe, Spain, greece, italy etc.), sacked constantinopol etc.
They deserved the crusade and even more, if only the pope didn’t kill off the crusaders, maybe Christianity would have flourished in the middle east as well.
How to tell a closet muslim? Offer him a pork sandwich and see what happens.
Okay! Enough! More than enough, I cannot listen to anymore horse s— from a lying traitorous POS like Jihad Johhny! Repeating that line of s—“…we are not at war with islam”! He is an arselifter revert, one hand picked by our Traitor-in-Chief…And the worst is that there arte still enough people with their heads up their arses in this country that they believe every word from lying traitorous s—s like John Boy and his boss (gag) the O!…I say AGAIN “Stick a fork in us, we are done as a nation”!!
This man is a liar.. Long hair earring in Indonesia… He would have been put in Gaol.
I think he’s confused with Mexico ..The beauty of Islam. Islam is a dangerous violent dogma of lies. This man is a Muslim.
This man is dangerous. I don’t want to be killed and he says well you died and I understand why…it was economic forces.. too bad son..
IMPEACH OBAMA !
John-Boy! Please change your name to Mohammed Bhrennanahlla. Don’t beleaguer a poor, long suffering people with a name that sounds Irish.
IMPEACH OBAMA !
Hard to tell if he’s just a dhimmi or if he is a full convert. Either way, he’s an ally of Islam and Islamism. Look a the guy’s face. Would you confide your telephone number to him — or even the location of the nearest gas station? He has no business being in his lofty government position. What could go wrong with Brennan in charge? Damn near anything!
He is a traitor and one day he is going to be sorry. Maybe?
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” The quote comes from page 261 of the paperback edition of “The Audacity of Hope.
IMPEACH OBAMA !
Capt.Gene: Audacious ? How about traitorous ? Nothing audacious about deliberately breaking an oath. Of course, the oath wasn’t taken to his particular god
(small G intentional) in the first place.
note to our leader:
May your backswing forever be crooked. May your putts forever circle the cup and not fall. May you forever hook and slice. May you forever lie in briars. May you forever slip, fall, and sprain your back when kicking the ball for a better lie. May the correct number of strokes magically appear on your scorecard. May you never win a bet. May the balance of your foursome laugh out loud at your tee shots.
These blessings I give you freely. Think of them as you aproach.
IMPEACH OBAMA !
Brennan sounds like a HUGE admirer of huge slave trader founder of Islam, Mohammad, who declared: WAR IS DECEPTION.
Taqiyya – DECEIVING for Islam is a vital Muslim WAR strategy. Brennan is faithfully following the teaching of Mohammad and deliberately deceiving for Islam. God help America and the Free World!
Americans and other non-Muslims wept bitterly on September 11 over the cruel deaths of our people – 3,000 innocents barbarically slaughtered by devout Muslims OBEYING Quran commands to murder infidels.
Qur’an:8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate
them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”
Who could know on that sad, tragic day that just a few years later, America would have a government dedicated to Muslim conquest of America and the entire Free World? The betrayal is enormous.
“Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” – Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a leading authority on Islam in Saudi Arabia.
***MUST SEE Muslims “Palestinians” Celebrating 9/11 (CNN – Fox) September 11 ARABS twin towers 911
We are in deep trouble with muslums like brennan in charge of the CIA, kerry, odumbo and so on all supporting the monsters of islum. Our only hope is to keep exposing the agenda of islum.
PURPOSE OF JIHAD – “POWER OVER ALL NATIONS” = FASCISM
-Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.” – Footnote commentary on jihad from p580 of Sahih Al-Bukhar, publ. by Maktba Dar-us-Salam
-Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), jurist, renowned philosopher, historian, and sociologist, summarized these consensus opinions from five centuries of prior Muslim jurisprudence with regard to the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad:
“In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force… The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense… Islam is under obligation to gain POWER OVER OTHER NATIONS.”
Yo, Brennan! FASCISM is NOT legitimate.
John Brennan, Mendacious Taqiyya Artist.
We smell what your shoveling.
Bin Laden = skilled architect with 400 millions of assets. Went terrorist after thoroughful reading and exploration of his own religion.
Az-Zawahiri = skilled medic. Went terrorist after thoroughful reading and exploration of his own religion.
Literacy rate? Poverty? No! It’s islam. Fucking admit it already! Tired of listening to lies by leftist liberals! You can’t deny it’s islam! You think the whole world is so idiotic? Obama: ‘Saudi is the most humane dictatorship’. Obama: ‘we have no tolerance for countries which violate rights of gays’. Fuck yeah, idiot! Your boys from Riaydh behead them! Saudi Arabia = North Korea of the Middle East, the only difference is that commie ideology is replaced by Islam, period! 15/19 of 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, and you gave them ‘trusted’ status for airport checks while advocating for military strike against Assad! For fuck’s sake, the USA electorate must be really fucked up if people belive such a liar into the office twice in a row. That thing drives me mad :X
Sounds like Brennan is justifying the killing of thousand of Christians who also happen to be as poor as the Muslim Savages that are killing Christians in Africa and other areas of the world where Muslims dominate or are attempting to dominate by exterminating all non believers.
And then we have places like Iraq where Muslims are killing other Muslims when they don’t have Christians around to kill. Muslims are raised to hate anyone thats not like them. Must be all that banging of head to the hard cement. I call it a shit stain.
We can only hope that a Republican get elected President and I don’t mean Christie. We need a president thats willing to flush out all the Muslim Brotherhood members and others who think like Brennan. We need to rid us of Brennan, Holder and others of their ilk.
I personally like Rand Paul, or Cruz, even Doctor Carson. Folks like Brennan and Holder should be dangling from a rope for violating our constitution and putting America at a greater risk. That Includes Obama ofc.
john brennan is an ignorant putz
The video above of this traitor. ” The beauty of islam”. What a bunch of crap, should be tried for teason!
and Taquiyya is ?
If you understand the concept of camouflage then you’ve pretty much got it. Taquiyya is the Koran-based Islamic doctrine of deception. For example, doing anything un-Islamic, such as shaving your beard, drinking alcohol, etcetera, to mislead the enemy (any non-Muslim), It could be summarized as ‘becoming like your enemy to defeat your enemy’.