[ April 18, 2024 ]
McMaster must go. He never should have been hired in the first place. He is working hard to derail any effort by the Trump administration to deal with the jihad threat realistically.
“VIDEO – H.R. McMaster: Muslim Terrorist Groups Are ‘Really Un-Islamic,’ ‘Irreligious,’” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, August 15, 2017:
TEL AVIV – In a 2014 speech on the Middle East, embattled White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster claimed that Islamic terrorist organizations are “really un-Islamic” and are “really irreligious organizations” who cloak themselves in the “false legitimacy of Islam.”
Story continues below advertisementMcMaster’s comments represent views of Islamic terrorism that are diametrically opposed to those espoused by President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly utilized the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”
McMaster, who serves in a critical national security position, seems to be minimizing the central religious motivations of radical Islamic terrorist groups who are waging a religious war against Western civilization. Indeed, in his speech, McMaster urged the audience to focus on the “human factors” that he says drive conflict while downplaying any religious motivation.
McMaster was speaking at the 136th general conference and exhibition of the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) in a thirty-minute speech reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem. He addressed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism.
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of McMaster’s speech [emphasis added]. (Comments begin at the 9:08 mark in the above video):
War is profoundly human. What do all of these conflicts have in common? Of course, there are a lot of differences, right? And we have to be sensitive to local differences and realities that drive conflict. But what you see is you see these really irreligious organizations. These criminal organizations, who cloak themselves in this kind of false legitimacy of Islam. But they are really un-Islamic.
They want to portray themselves as patrons and protectors of aggrieved parties. So their strategy has been to pit communities against each other. Get them to fight each other and then come in as patron and protector and gain control of a chaotic situation and then establish control through brutality, through intimidation. Use control of populations and resources to conduct more attacks, more mass murder of innocent people to drive retribution attacks like you saw maybe these Shia militias conduct this execution in the mosque in Diyala province. That is what they want. They want this kind of cycle of violence to accelerate–to get more and more destructive.
McMaster went on to describe what he believes are the motivators of conflict in the war on terrorism, failing to mention religion:
And so the drivers of conflict is what we have to remember. What is driving a conflict? Sometimes when we look at very quick and easy military solutions to problem sets, we are not thinking about what is the nature of this conflict. What is the nature of this war? What are the human factors? Really, people fight, I think, for the same reasons the Greek philosopher and historian Thucydides identified 2,500 years ago: Fear. Honor. You might say sense of honor. And interest. So understanding those human dimensions and being able to affect them is important, and we have to remember that.
The comments are not the only time McMaster has seemingly denied the Islamic motivations of America’s terrorist enemies. 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 fall idea of some kind of religious war.”
In the speech, Trump eventually urged Muslim-majority countries to take the lead in “combatting radicalization,” and he referred to “Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires.”
Shia and Sunni Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Islamic State each openly espouse Islamic motivations, repeatedly cite the Quran, and claim they are fighting a religious war. Some of the Sunni groups are violent offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to create a global Islamic caliphate.
Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, infamously cited Quranic scripture and was heavily influenced by Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, ideologue, and Islamic theorist Sayyid Qatb, considered the Brotherhood’s intellectual godfather. Writing in the New York Times magazine in 2003, author Paul Berman dissected the Quranic origins of Qatb’s book Milestones – utilized by bin Laden as a sort of religious guidebook – as being drawn from Qatb’s massive commentary on the Quran, titled In the Shade of the Qur’an.
Hamas’s original charter repeatedly cites the Quran and other mainstream Islamic texts. In March, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, claimed that “removing the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle because it appears in the Book of Allah.” Zahar was referring to the entire state of Israel.
While there are legitimate arguments about how much these terrorist groups in some cases may utilize an extremist interpretation of Islam, McMaster is clearly downplaying the transparent religious motivations of America’s terrorism enemies….
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19 Comments
6 years ago
If Christians were committing the same violent acts as Muslims they would do all they could to connect the acts with the religion of the perpetrators.
Just Google “murder abortion doctor” and you’ll see “christian murder abortion doctor” appear in the menu choices. But if you do the same for “terrorist acts,” you won’t find “islamic terrorist acts” or “muslim terrorist acts” in the menu choices.
QED
6 years ago
Reply to
brockvond
Its upto us to expose the islamic jihadi Lies and coverup http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
MSM will not do it.
6 years ago
Islam is peace. Trump and Bannon’s strategy is to work with moderates muslims to tackle the few islamic extremists. Breittbart just banned me for saying that after pearl harbor USA declared war but after muslims killed thousands in 9/11 USA didn’t declare war to islam and islam will dominate.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
You should be banned for being stupid. Lying is merely a small part of your repertoire of ignorance.
6 years ago
Depose comrade mcmaster.
Ban it from gutter`mint.
Forget it.
Next anti-deplorable please.
6 years ago
who knew McMaster was the latest in a line of islamic imams?
6 years ago
& who wins? The Islamic tyrannies who enslave Africans.
McMaster won’t expose that practice & it’s origin which leads to Islam’s founder. & weapons get sold to Saudi Arabia..
The people if we follow McMaster (& Trump as Trump is his boss) don’t have the right to be informed about Islam, about the Nazi-Jihad history.
This must change.
#Shut down Gaza Jihad-TV.
#BoycottIslam #Shariafreeworld
#Only Globalfirm.
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on.
6 years ago
Mr Magoo on steroids.
6 years ago
Bulllshittt. Where did President Trump ever find such a useless mouthpiece?
6 years ago
I wonder if McMaster is a convert to islum, or just a paid muslum collaborator/traitor?
6 years ago
Using McMaster’s logic then the conquests of Mohammad and his early followers, the Moghuls and the Ottoman Turks were all un-Islamic. Yeah, that makes sense. When did it become the job of generals and politicians to explain Islam to us? Where did they study to become such well informed Islamic scholars? All anyone who wants to understand Islam has to do is listen to what their imams are preaching (MEMRI) and observe the actions of their congregants. I believe that Islamic apologists like McMaster, John Brennan and Barack Hussein Obama are crypto-Muslims.
D
6 years ago
McMaster Has NO Integrity. I don’t give a Dam what people say about him and his greatness. This guy is a Born Coward that ASS KISSED his way to the top. 
6 years ago
And McMasters is an unAmerican treasonous deep state bastard!
6 years ago
This man is nothing less than a threat to America. President Trump must fire him immediately.
6 years ago
Traitor! Court martial him.
6 years ago
It seems Like a book title has become a mantra and motto for H.R.McNastey And he is not a patriot in the least! H.R.McMasters Is “Dereliction of Duty”!!
6 years ago
I can’t see Cruz supporting Trump after what Trump has said about him in the past.
6 years ago
“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”
Patrick Henry
Comrade “imam” hrm is a tyrant lurking in the left wings.
