Surprise: he wasn’t referring to “right-wing extremism,” but to the jihad threat — even as he insisted that the vast majority of Muslims reject the jihad ideology, and that Muslims are its chief victims. ” Obama Drone Speech Delivered At National Defense University (FULL TRANSCRIPT),” from The Huffington Post, May 23:
Moreover, we must recognize that these threats don’t arise in a vacuum. Most, though not all, of the terrorism we face is fueled by a common ideology — a belief by some extremists that Islam is in conflict with the United States and the West, and that violence against Western targets, including civilians, is justified in pursuit of a larger cause. Of course, this ideology is based on a lie, for the United States is not at war with Islam; and this ideology is rejected by the vast majority of Muslims, who are the most frequent victims of terrorist acts.
Even though he acknowledges that Islamic jihad is the primary terror threat the U.S. faces, however, his denial of its true nature and magnitude will only lead to more intelligence failures like those that preceded and facilitated the Boston Marathon jihad bombings. Consider how ridiculous it is that the President of the United States says that most of the terrorism we face is fueled by a common ideology, and yet Administration officials are forbidden to study that ideology. But that is the situation we are in.