Monday, August 23, 2010
I wouldn't say he exactly "stormed out" of the Washington Times editorial office, but he definitely got the hell out of Dodge fast when he was confronted on the factual basis of his statements concerning the use of the term "Jihad." Call it a combination of the arrogance of this Administration along with Brennan's inability to answer what should, for him, be simple questions. White House counter-terrorism adviser Brennan storms out of The Washington Times offices
...Mr. Brennan had visited the Washington Times Editorial Board on June 24 as a result of a June 11 Washington Times editorial he objected to. It did not take long for the White House counter-terrorism adviser to lose his temper with our editorial board's questions regarding what he previously said about individuals who become terrorists (see transcript and video below).
Mr. Brennan cut the meeting short and stormed out of our offices thereafter following a question posed by senior editorial writer Jim Robbins (transcript and video below). Referring to a quote Mr. Brennan said in May, calling jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," Mr. Robbins looked to discuss the concept of jihad further with the Obama administration adviser. Fox News reported earlier in May:
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.
Stupidity is a legitimate tenet of this administration.
Great clip but let me share a story with you.
Remember that election day in 2004. There was some terrorism that day. One involved a man with down's syndrome, where he had a bomb strapped to him and he headed toward a group of voters.
Now his family says that the man would never have knowingly participated in terrorism. i wouldn't know, but I tend to believe the parents. so for all we know, they told the man the suicide belt was a batman utility belt and the line of voters was the line for free candy--something horrible like that.
Anyway, he and the cruelty of using him as a bomber isn't the point of the story. the point of the story is to tell you of an iraqi policeman who saw all this happening. he ran up to the man with down's syndrome and literally hugged him. He held him in place until somehow or another the bomb went off and killed them both.
The iraqi policeman was a national hero. they named schools after him. i wish i wrote down his name so i could tell it to you now.
And at his funeral, the father of the policeman was sad but proud. He said he knew his son was in paradise now, because he had died in jihad--that is the jihad for freedom and democracy.
So I say for a fact that there are good, even heroic muslims who have killed and died to fight true evil, and have shouted Allah Akbar as they did.
I won't even try to guess what the true nature of islam or jihad really is. but there are undeniably those among us who take those concepts and apply them to good causes.
Please, the guy is a moron. These people haven't a clue, when challenged they get angry, retreat into empty rhetoric, lie, insult, because they can't intellectually defend anything they say. Their motto is, ''let's not let facts get in the way'' - only the ideology matters.
I cant wait for my community to be purified by followers of Islam.
Then we can see the "legitimate tenets of Islam" at work.
Good Lord!