[Raymond Ibrahim] By constantly projecting Western standards on Islamic jihadis, CIA head John Brennan has come to epitomize the U.S. intelligence community's intellectual failures concerning the true sources of the jihad.
Among other failures.
Last Friday, March 13, Brennan insisted that Islamic State (IS) members are not Islamic. Instead, "They are terrorists, they're criminals. Most--many--of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers who use a religious concept and masquerade and mask themselves in that religious construct."
Note his usage of terms familiar to Western people ("terrorists," "criminals," etc.). Islamic State jihadis may be all those things--including "psychopathic thugs"--from a Western paradigm, but the fact left out by Brennan is that, according to Islamic law and history, savage and psychopathic behavior is permissible, especially in the context of the jihad.
But perhaps Brennan knows all this and is simply being "strategic"? After all, the CIA head also "warned against ascribing 'Islamic legitimacy' to the overseas terrorist group, saying that allowing them to identify themselves with Islam does a disservice to Muslims
Bonus Article, same author:
'Devotion to Islam' -- Not Unemployment -- Root Cause of Jihad 
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