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| Brennan: Comments That 'Taint' Islam 'Tremendously Detrimental' to Counterterrorism |
| 2016-10-01 |
| [PJ] WASHINGTON -- CIA Director John Brennan said comments that "taint" Islam "as being the source of the problem" are "tremendously detrimental to our interests and to a better understanding of this phenomenon" of terrorism. Speaking at the Washington Ideas Forum this week, Brennan said he's met with "princes or presidents and prime ministers throughout the Middle East" who are "outraged that their community -- their Muslim community -- has been infected by this cancer, individuals who have this distorted and very perverted interpretation of Islam that pursue these psychopathic agendas of horrific violence, and they recognize that they have a very important role -- the leading role to help purge their communities of these influences." "These individuals who are fanatics -- extremists and terrorists -- they are driven by this ideology that is not rooted in Islam," Brennan said. "It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist, that either you are with us or against us." "And that's why the establishment of the caliphate -- the so-called caliphate by ISIL, as well as al-Qaeda's agenda, really, are trying to cause this ...clash of civilizations. They want to drive this wedge between the West and the Muslim world." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 "Like most of what Mohammed said?" You misspelled "all," # 10 Rob. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-10-01 18:59 |
| #11 "Taint" so. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-10-01 16:06 |
| #10 Comments that "taint Islam"? Like most of what Mohammed said? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-10-01 14:36 |
| #9 Being a Muslim himself, he'd know. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-01 12:37 |
| #8 Taint Islam? Islam taints Islam. It is the acceptance of the medeival radical Islamism of Ibn Tamiyya, and his absolute rejection of all cultures other than the Islamic, and religions other than Islam, that spurs the murderous Salafist movement today. |
| Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 2016-10-01 09:38 |
| #7 Lying about that piece of shit fake Islamic religion is worse |
| Posted by: Newc 2016-10-01 09:12 |
| #6 I accidently posted this last comment which was intended for another article. Sorry, please remove the comment if you like. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-01 08:38 |
| #5 If African-Americans didn’t get out and vote for Hillary Clinton, they would be dissing him and his legacy. So warned President Barack Obama, in a speech at the Black Caucus Foundation in Washington DC, on September 17 His legacy should have been impeachment. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-01 08:37 |
| #4 Brennan said. "It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist, that either you are with us or against us." You calling out George W. because I think he said this shortly after 911 ("You are with us or against us")? It was a good slogan for rallying the country and letting our enemies know we were not going to stand for them providing support to our enemies. It was unambiguous. None of the namby-pamby chicken-shit mealy-mouthed tripe that comes out today such as "Leading from Behind." No apology tours. No drawing of movable red lines in the sand. I don't recall that we separated the good Germans from the Nazi or the good Japanese from the military shintoists. Like radical Islam, the Shintoists were embedded in Japanese culture as are the radical Islamists in Muslim life. Recognition that radical Islam is embedded deeply in Islam would have shortened the WOT. Of course that was then and this is now. But then we used to win wars too. And that was when Congress declared war on our enemies—not the President or the Secretary of State behind closed doors. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-01 08:33 |
| #3 Please feel free to quote me as decrying this traitorous asshole's comments as being "tremendously detrimental to our interests". Oh, and fuck him. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-10-01 01:44 |
| #2 Check musta cleared. |
| Posted by: badanov 2016-10-01 01:35 |
| #1 This fellow and his Islamic drivel is appearing in the news rather often of late. Is he fearing an end to his appointment may be eminent ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-01 01:34 |