I am not sure what to make of Obama using the word "jihad" and am puzzled at the hypocrisy of it all. I will withhold critique at this time, what do you think?
From Politico May 12 by Josh Gerstein
"For us to be able to definitively say, 'We got the man who caused thousands of deaths here in the United States and who had been the rallying point for a violent extremist jihad around the world' was something that I think all of us were profoundly grateful to be a part of," Obama said. He didn't repeat the term during the exchange CBS broadcast Sunday night.
Pundits and journalists frequently refer to bin Laden and his followers as "jihadists," but Obama and his team have been loathe to use that kind of terminology.
"Nor does President Obama see this challenge as a fight against 'jihadists,'" Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said in an August 2009 speech. "Describing terrorists in this way—using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal—risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself. And this is why President Obama has confronted this perception directly and forcefully in his speeches to Muslim audiences, declaring that America is not and never will be at war with Islam."
It is insane to think that we have the ability or the power to give Islam anything, let alone define what it is. Obama may well believe we are not at war with Islam, but Islam has declared war on us, so his claim is only based in what he thinks Islam is, not in what it actually stands for. We may indeed be doomed.
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From Politico May 12 by Josh Gerstein
Despite adviser's warnings, Obama calls bin Laden 'jihad' leader
It didn't get much attention over the weekend, but, in his interview with "60 Minutes," President Barack Obama described Osama bin Laden as a leader of a global "jihad." That's a word that he and his advisers generally avoid."For us to be able to definitively say, 'We got the man who caused thousands of deaths here in the United States and who had been the rallying point for a violent extremist jihad around the world' was something that I think all of us were profoundly grateful to be a part of," Obama said. He didn't repeat the term during the exchange CBS broadcast Sunday night.
Pundits and journalists frequently refer to bin Laden and his followers as "jihadists," but Obama and his team have been loathe to use that kind of terminology.
"Nor does President Obama see this challenge as a fight against 'jihadists,'" Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said in an August 2009 speech. "Describing terrorists in this way—using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal—risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself. And this is why President Obama has confronted this perception directly and forcefully in his speeches to Muslim audiences, declaring that America is not and never will be at war with Islam."
It is insane to think that we have the ability or the power to give Islam anything, let alone define what it is. Obama may well believe we are not at war with Islam, but Islam has declared war on us, so his claim is only based in what he thinks Islam is, not in what it actually stands for. We may indeed be doomed.
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