My latest over at the Geller Report:
Here we go again. If President Trump’s National Security Adviser, H. R. McMaster, wields influence over the President, and if his characterization of the President’s upcoming trip to the Middle East is to be believed, Trump is now set to repeat all the mistakes that his last two predecessors made in dealing with the global jihad threat. For a man who won the presidency promising to drain the swamp, this is an extraordinary disappointment.
Speaking Friday about the trip, McMaster said that Trump in the Middle East “will develop a strong, respectful message that the United States and the entire civilized world expects our Muslim allies to take a strong stance against radical Islamist ideology.”
“Respectful.” Of course. You remember Barack Obama repeatedly inviting the Muslim world to a new relationship with the United States based on “mutual respect.” In Washington, “respect” in this context is all too often a code word for an assurance that the United States will take no official (or non-official) notice of the fact that the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists worldwide comes from the Qur’an and Sunnah. We will pledge not to know our enemy, and hence not to understand or be able to counter him effectively.
And so McMaster added that jihad terrorists were operating according to “an ideology that uses a perverted interpretation of religion to justify crimes against all humanity.” But Trump, on the other hand, “will call for Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam.”
How many times since 9/11 has one American spokesman or another declared that “the United States and the entire civilized world expects our Muslim allies to take a strong stance against radical Islamist ideology”? We have been expecting this for fifteen years now and counting. How many years must we expect this before we realize that our “Muslim allies” have quite different priorities from what we would wish to believe? Turkey has repeatedly refused to strike strongly against the Islamic State (ISIS); its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is much more concerned with hitting Assad and the Kurds. Pakistan’s government sheltered first bin Laden and now Zawahiri, was involved in the Mumbai jihad massacre and other jihad attacks, and has funneled much of the money the U.S. gave it to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. How long do we keep waiting on these “Muslim allies” to do the right thing, and weakly and pusillanimously calling upon them to do so?
And Trump “will call for Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam”? Now, there’s something we’ve never seen done before! Where has McMaster been for the last decade and a half? Buried deeply in the foreign policy establishment swamp that has been serving up this nonsense for all that time. And now he has apparently sold President Drain The Swamp on it. Bush and Obama called for Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam. They also claimed that the jihadis’ version of Islam “uses a perverted interpretation of religion.” Where did it get them? The same place comforting falsehoods always take you: into a maze of blind alleys and failed policies based on incorrect analysis.
Even worse, McMaster said that “with President Abbas, Trump will express his desire for dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians.” Isn’t there anyone around Trump who can explain to him that a Palestinian state would simply become a new base for new and more virulent jihad attacks against a weakened Israel? When they met in Washington recently, Abbas lied brazenly to President Trump, claiming that his government “educates for peace” and that the Palestinian Authority is “raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace.” Meanwhile, on the same day, Abbas’ government was honoring 12 jihad mass murderers who are responsible for the deaths of 95 people.
The foreign policy establishment’s house organ, Foreign Policy, an egregiously self-deluded and willfully ignorant journal, is worried that “in the White House ‘Game of Thrones for morons,’ Steve Bannon is trying to turn the president against his national security advisor.” We can only hope that Bannon succeeds. It’s ironic that Foreign Policy would dub the Trump team “morons,” when it is the foremost exponent of the analyses and policies that have failed not once but multiple times, and that McMaster is once again pushing.
Trump was not elected to implement these policies and watch them fail yet another time. And if he continues down the road that McMaster claims he intends to travel, that is exactly what he will do: fail.
RichardL says
by now I am pretty relaxed when it comes to DJT: the only thing that counts is actions. Thus, I will wait and see what he does, not what one of his helpers says. I trust Trump to win and win big. If that means he needs a bloody nose first, so be it.
It cannot be as bad as Hussein Obama or Rotten Hilary.
Krazy Kafir says
Whoever advised Trump to use this dhimmi, should be drained first.
mortimer says
Drain them now! McMaster is LYING about Islamic doctrines or he is IGNORANT of them. In both cases, this is CULPABLE.
There is nothing to be gained from DENYING THE REALITY OF THE JIHAD DOCTRINE which is ‘ESSENTIAL’ to Islamic salvation. Jihadism cannot be removed from Islam.
If McMaster does not know that, he should know it.
Diane Harvey says
McMaster should of course be ousted. So too, and perhaps especially, the people who recommended McMaster to Trump. I really thought that Trump was smarter than all of this to fall for the “Muslim are allies” crap.
I do realize that they really want to believe that Islam doesn’t teach what Islam clearly teaches. Wishing won’t make it so.
mortimer says
Diane, there are Muslim allies, but they are two-faced. They say one thing to NATO countries and another to OIC countries and terror organizations.
Islam forces everyone to lie constantly.
Charli Main says
Muslims are your allies as long as they can use you to their advantage, to further Islam, all the while smiling in your face and cursing you in their hearts.
harbidoll says
We hope to hear Trump say “your fired” to the first “allies” who crosses one of his agreements or red lines. (Al lies lol)
mortimer says
This failed strategy of inviting Muslims to reform themselves will not work, because the Koran, hadiths and Sira (The Islamic Trilogy) cannot be rewritten or reformed.
The jihad doctrine is one of the ‘ESSENTIAL DOCTRINES’ of Islam and Muslims who do not conduct jihad will not enter Islamic paradise.
Islam is an all-or-nothing proposition. Either Muslims must become jihadists or leave Islam. Most Muslims are VERBAL JIHADISTS, lying to the dirty kufaar about the meaning of jihad.
McMaster is asking the Western world to continue to lower its standards once more and patiently listen to verbal jihad, while Muslims do nothing to reform Islam. Islam cannot be reformed, but only abandoned as obscurantist nonsense and SADOMASOCHISM.
McMaster is asking the Western world to continue to be MASOCHISTS grovelling before the jihadists.
Demsci says
Mortimer, you wrote: “Koran, hadiths and Sira (The Islamic Trilogy) cannot be rewritten or reformed.” No, Muslims attribute th Koran to Allah and Hadith and Sira also divinely inspired.
Indeed they can’t. But they came into existence before # 900 AD. After that they were studied and explained. Made clear. By Tafsirs, the first being Al Tabari. This is what I learned from Jay Smith.
I like to emphasize that Koran alone, and the Sira and (sahih) Hadith depend for clarity on the Tafsirs, the Islamic scholars etc. But these can be considered HUMAN and non binding by Muslims.
Debi Brand says
Briefly:
Demsci says
Now I admit that a rejection of important Islamic scholars and schools of thought by Muslims is very rare.
BUT in future we may be able to use for own benefit this distinction between “Divine, yet insufficiently explained, therefore unclear, incomplete, contractive, multi-interpretable Quran-Hadith-Sira and
What the HUMAN explainers write and conclude from them. For those writings-conclusions are what makes Islam clear.
This distinction it is that the APOLOGISTS and REFORMERS of Islam use. Towards wellwilling, ignorant naive Western listeners. They definitely pretend that at least some of the Islamic Scholars need not be followed, as they are just human and have no binding authority.
The problem is that they use this distinction but then are at great pains NOT to explain that they accept all of Quran, Sahih Hadits, Sira, but not everything from the Islamic Scholars. This enables the apologists and reformers to use their own interpretation of the trilogy.
And to describe the Meccan verses as not abrogated but still valid and orders and obligations given by Mohammed as no longer “prescriptive” but only “descriptive”; meant for the time of the prophet.
In other words, rejecting the Islamic Scholars interpretation on key points, makes it possible for the apologists and reformers to cherry pick.
But we can demand that Muslims really do cherry picking like the apologists and reformers, can’t we? On pain of non-entrance for asylumseekers who refuse this for instance.
mortimer says
NEWS FLASH! “ISLAMIC PERVERTS” !!! McMaster knows Islam BETTER THAN PhDs in ISLAMIC STUDIES!!! WOW!!! McMASTER is a SPONTANEOUS, UNREAD GENIUS !!!
ACCORDING TO McMASTER, Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who is the ISIS chief and the caliph of the Islamic State, is apparently the first Islamic Studies PhD from a Muslim background who has no idea about Islam.
Al-Baghdadi, who has obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees in Islamic studies from the Islamic University in Baghdad, has been condemned as a person who knows nothing about Islam, and as the head of an organization that has nothing to do with Islam.
The professors from the Islamic University of Baghdad, however, do not agree. They taught the caliph and believe his credentials and doctrines are sound.
“If a person who has a PhD in Islamic studies and does nothing but study the Islamic scriptures knows nothing about Islam, then who does?” questioned al-Baghdadi’s main teacher from the Islamic University, preferring to remain anonymous since the fatwa against ISIS and its chief puts his reputation into jeopardy.
“The wine-sipping Muslims, those hedonistic adulterers will tell the world what true Islam is? Obama and Cameron know more about Islam than the faculty of Islamic studies at the Islamic University in Baghdad?” the professor bellowed with rage, while talking to a journalist.
Another professor, who had taught al-Baghdadi for his BA, said off the record that the ISIS caliph was an ardent student.
“He had this obsession with Islamic studies. I used to tell him to go out and have some fun sometimes. But his idea of fun wasn’t too human friendly,” the professor said. “In any case he was a top student. One of the best I’ve ever had. Had the entire syllabus on his finger tips – to be honest, he knew more about Islamic studies than most of the professors.”
“While you can question whether they are humans or not, there is no doubt that ISIS, including Abu Bakr (al Baghdadi), are indeed bona fide Muslims,” concluded the ISIS caliph’s PhD professor.
Demsci says
Very good post and I agree totally with the article and this post.
AND I want Muslims and Political Correct people eventually to be beaten verbally with knowledge, about the great faults in Islamic History, provided by Robert Spencer, Tom Holland and Jay Spencer, whose books and video’s I all read/ watched.
Sam says
Yeh, but Islam will stay as a religion of peace in the fantasy world of communists. NO MATTER WHAT!
MacUalraig says
Damn you’re on fire. I love reading your commentary.
pennant8 says
Bottom line, expect to see more flag draped coffins returning from various Islamic hellholes.
Debi Brand says
“Bottom line, expect to see more flag draped coffins returning from various Islamic hellholes.”
Indeed.
And spent for what?
Answer: spent in our efforts to, in brief, “beautify” the face of Islam.
Pal says
Will be – and Why still not are – MB designated as a Terrorists organisation in the US:
https://www.understandingthethreat.com/why-the-mb-is-still-not-designated-as-terrorists-in-the-us/
The Muslim Brothers.
And the Muslim Sisters.
Oh, oh…
herb planter says
hopefully this will be trump’s call to muslims to submit like they do b4 attacking
Sam says
So how do an average citizen like me warn our president TRUMP of these enablers of Islam?
Wellington says
Write to him, Sam. I have. You can e-mail the President at whitehouse.gov. Lay out your case politely, firmly and knowledgeably. Mention such things as quotes from the Koran which show Islam to be inimical to freedom, an example being Sura 4:89 which states that one who leaves the way of Allah (i.e., leaves Islam) is to be seized and killed. Point to the aberrant character of Mohammed himself, God knows there are enough examples in the hadiths and sira, like Mohammed saying, “I have been made victorious with terror.” {Bukhari Hadith 4:52:220}
Bringing up President John Quincy Adams’ quote about Mohammed wouldn’t be a bad idea either, i.e., “The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust—–to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of mankind.” Indicate too the many ways deception is condoned by Islam, for instance kitman and muruna. Indicating as well that the term “radical Islam” is a redundant term and that the distinction between “Islam” and “Islamism” is a phantom distinction might also be worth while. And so on. No doubt enough material exists to make your case. And I would also suggest mentioning that while the Bible is often merely descriptive the Koran is always prescriptive and that is why, so many times, comparisons between the Old Testament and the Koran are bogus.
Perhaps too you might want to mention to the President that he was eminently correct when, while still a candidate for the Republican nomination, he himself back in March of 2016 said, “I think Islam hates us.” Also, encourage others, friends and family, who “get” Islam to write President Trump. The more the better. Give it a shot.
P,S. Probably most effective would be a letter, handwritten or typed, and sent to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
SAM says
I will do it even if they don’t read it. Thanks!
MacUalraig says
Wrote him a few weeks ago. Asked him what he was doing shaking hands with Abbas, and why the American people are giving any money to the Fakestinians at all. No response.
Maybe SAM will have better luck.
Charli Main says
There are none so blind as those that refuse to see.
This should be put on the headstones of Angela Merkel, Sharia May, Tony Blair, Macron and all the other European political elites that have facilitated THE MUSLIM INVASION OF EUROPE.
another Dave says
….more injured and maimed soldiers groveling for medical care when they return home, more US weapons falling into the hands of Jihadists, more unvetted immigrants flooding the country from the Pentagon’s newest war zones, more years of endless quagmire and wasted $trillions because “close allies” (like SA, Pak, Turkey) support our enemies and want us
to fail, more bs from “experts” like this Gen. Toastmaster whose main interest is selling $100bil.+ in weapons to the Saudis
and 90 f-35’s to the Turks to continue this sham.
Steve Klein says
‘Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory’
Bitter diplomatic spat over Jews’ holiest place of prayer reported during preparation for president’s visit; Netanyahu’s office said seeking clarification from DC
http://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-member-of-trump-team-said-to-tell-israelis-western-wall-is-not-your-territory/
underbed cat says
White robe gators. Wake up Trump…..get a copy of the quran/ haddiths and sharia law your best defense against deception.
Debi Brand says
george romero says
Stick with Steve Bannon Mr President , he knows the the jihad threat better than anyone.
Andrew Breitbart is watching over us , i feel confidant the Pres will come through on this issue.
Dacritic says
In The Apprentice, Trump listened to his advisers George and Carolyn, but ultimately made his own decisions about who to fire… sometimes to the bewilderment of both the executives. He should do even more of that on a much larger scale now that he’s President. He’s a smart bloke. He has to study Islam on his own instead of relying on all these fools to do it for him.
Vivarto says
Well Robert,
Talk to Trump.
Find your way to him.
He needs to hear you.
He needs to hear you and Bill Warner.
Dacritic says
Will Robert heed this advice? I hope he does. And then I hope the president heeds HIS advice.
duh swami says
Just asking Muslims to alter their religion is an insult…to expect them to do it as a service to kuffar, is unrealistic…The Pen of Destiny has been writing some really weird stuff…
gee says
These are the exact same advisers telling Israel that Jerusalem does not belong to the Jews and that they are ‘stealing’ the Western Wall.
Debi Brand says
This blooming clown McMaster, in his ongoing press conference, just stated, President Trump is, in his upcoming trip to the Mideast, going to the Western Wall to “pay homage” to three of the world’s greatest religions.
Mr. Trump—the leader of our nation; thus, the main spokesman for it–on our dime, speaking for us all, is going to the Western Wall to pay homage to Islam.
Stephen says
I am growing disillusioned with President Trump because he has withdrawn from his promise to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood. Senator Cruz introduced legislation that would have made the State Department declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. That would be the first step to outlawing the MB. But President Trump has distanced his administration from that legislation.
Just before Obama was elected, The Holy Land Foundation trial put several Muslim Brotherhood leaders in jail for soliciting and sending funds to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. But a lot of Muslim Brotherhood operatives who were identified as participants, referred to as “unindicted co-conspirators”, were not tried in that trial; the judge separated them out in order to eliminate confusion in the first trial, and they were to be indicted and tried in a separate trial.
When Eric Holder was named Attorney General, he refused to indict or try those people. If Attorney General Sessions does not do it, they will skate free.
It is imperative that President Trump not back away from one of the most important and crucial issue that threatens our republic from the inside. He must proceed with haste in outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood, just like a number of other nations have done, and several of those nations are Muslim nations.
Send President Trump an email insisting that he not cave to the intense lobbying he is receiving from internal parties like CAIR and from external parties like The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Send your email to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contact, or to https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact, or to both. The stability and continued existence of the republic depends upon it.
Dacritic says
I’ve done this, Stephen. I just am not sure who is reading these emails that we send before he reads them. He has to learn about Islam quickly. Mike Pence’s visit to Indonesia and his speech there outlines how little the Trump administration really understands Islam.
People like Robert Spencer, Hugh Fitzgerald or David Wood have need to get an audience with President Trump.
Lydia says
I knew it was just a matter of time!
They are all just puppets on a string…
following the script that most are
unaware of.
Do not trust them.
Just watch and be on guard.
UNCLE VLADDI says
General McTRAITOR.