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| Counter-terror failures and fifth column thrilled at "nothing to do with Islam" McMasters NSA appointment |
| 2017-02-26 |
| Moved to Page 4 since it's 'Opinion' BY ROBERT SPENCER Who is applauding the appointment of H. R. McMaster as national security adviser? Leading the applause are mainstream counterterror analysts whose policy recommendations are based on false premises and have failed time and time again. But even as the world is in flames because of their wrongheadedness, they still keep pushing the same failed analyses again and again. Cheerleading for McMaster's denial and willful ignorance in Politico today is Will McCants of the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institution is heavily funded by Qatar, one of the world's chief financiers of jihad terror. That funding has turned Brookings into an apologist for jihad, giving a platform to Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has praised Hitler and endorsed jihad suicide attacks, and Hamas-linked CAIR's Nihad Awad, among others. McCants himself is the establishment counter-terror "expert" who was involved with the Obama State Department's laughable Think Again Turn Away social media initiative to try to shame jihadis into leaving the jihad based on beliefs and values that the jihadis didn't hold in the first place. McCants has waved away the term "radical Islam" thusly: "Every bit of that phrase is analytically unhelpful...Is this the wine-drinking Islam of the poets? The court Islam of the caliph? What kind of Islam are you even talking about?" Well, Will, how about the Islam of the Qur'an and Sunnah? It's really very simple: it involves taking the people who say they're motivated by Islamic texts and teachings at their word, rather than condescendingly telling them, "No, you're actually motivated by poverty and lack of economic opportunity, here, we'll give you some cash and build you a school and we'll be pals then, right?" The worst damage is this culturally disarms the public who, dutifully believing "nothing to do with islam" and "no to islamophobia" put pressure on government and law enforcement to do nothing about the attacking ideology of Islamism. Like AIDS it disables our immune response to a hostile invader. McMaster's attitude is ideological AIDS left over from Obama/Bush. McCants has also claimed that the Islamic State was not following Islamic rules of warfare, in the process demonstrating only that he has a hazy idea, at best, of what those rules of warfare really are. Most ominously of all, he recommended in January 2014 that the U.S. "befriend" the al-Qaeda-linked jihad group Ahrar al-Sham. This was the kind of thinking that led to Obama's disastrous policies of arming and training al-Qaeda groups, including Ahrar al-Sham, in Syria. As Will McCants himself might put it, his analyses again and again are "crazy pants." But he is very happy about McMaster as NSA, because McMaster, like McCants, doesn't dare identify the jihadis' motivating ideology. Note his use in this article of the word "Islamophobes," a propaganda term cynically employed by Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in the U.S. to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror. McCants says: "The Islamophobes are not wrong to sense that McMaster will be hostile to their worldview, according to those who know him best. McMaster spent much of his career fighting and winning wars in the Middle East, which required him to know the local cultures and treat Muslims like humans rather than scripturally programmed robots." He is implying that my colleagues and I think all Muslims behave in exact accord with the Qur'an and Sunnah, which is of course straw man nonsense. What we insist upon, and what Will McCants and his colleagues are determined to obscure, explain away, or ignore outright, is that Islamic texts and teachings are the key element of the motivating ideology of the jihad terrorists, as they themselves insist, and that we can only understand and counter them effectively if we understand those texts and teachings. Instead, we get the puerile and silly McCants cheering on the unfortunate appointment of another purveyor of the denial that was all-pervasive during the Obama administration. We can only hope that McMaster was just echoing the party line, and will be prepared to be more realistic as a member of President Trump's team. He won't. We voted Trump in to drain that swamp but we won't get it. Trump gets his wall and to kick out illegals, but he doesn't get to fix the BIG MISTAKE made right after 9/11 because its ENTRENCHED. Bureacratic inertia. The stupids have won. "McMaster Has the Islamophobes Worried. Good.," by William McCants, Politico, February 23, 2017: When America's most influential Islamophobes are upset, you know the president made a good choice. "Score one [for] the swamp," whined Robert Spencer upon hearing the news that Donald Trump appointed Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his national security adviser. Spencer makes a living scaring Americans about the dangers of Muslim soccer moms. Yeah, soccer moms like Tashfeen Malik. |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #9 apologies if there is a box i failed to tick somewhere When I pull up the URL box, I Select All the contents, then paste my URL over it. That way the extra http:// goes away. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-02-26 19:49 |
| #8 newc: yes, Flynn got it. Flynn was ready to act. Flynn was politically assassinated. the stupids in the bureaucracy were too powerful for Trump and that is worse for us than if he never even won at all because now we see that democracy makes no difference this is why our countries are going to fall apart. |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-26 18:58 |
| #7 Glenmore: It's NOT about declaring all Islam the enemy it's about HONESTLY facing the fact in word and deed that it's not "nothing to do with Islam". It's not "everything to do with Islam" but it IS "something to do with Islam" and the sooner our leaders admit this openly and have the discussion the sooner we can start targeting that something. by saying "nothing to do with islam" is why people are dead in san bernadino because Tashveen Malik and I hope their families sue the government for this. saying "nothing to do with islam" is why theocrats now are way more powerful across the Islamic world today than they were on 9/11 or before we went to war in iraq and stupidly let sharia be put in the constitution |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-26 18:55 |
| #6 What is truly maddening is Flynn had this area firmly under his grasp in understanding - and an action plan too boot. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-02-26 14:41 |
| #5 When you paste a link, rantburg automatically references itself before your paste, anon1. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-02-26 13:57 |
| #4 URL |
| Posted by: newc 2017-02-26 13:54 |
| #3 but they are all saying "file not found on this server" (they are external links) Your URLs have extra garbage text at the beginning that needs to be deleted before they work. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-02-26 09:47 |
| #2 We really are better off not declaring all Islam the enemy - even if it was true, which it is not (quite.) Makes better sense to silently encourage many of them to fight each other (and/or Russia and China) and the rest to sit on the sidelines, rather than all uniting to fight us. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-02-26 09:10 |
| #1 hello i carefully pasted in all the URL links within this article as it's good research if people wish to follow, but they are all saying "file not found on this server" (they are external links) so perhaps cut and paste into the browser. apologies if there is a box i failed to tick somewhere |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-26 08:52 |