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H.R. McMaster calls 9/11 a “mass murder attack,” makes no mention of Islamic jihad terrorism

Oct 12, 2017 3:19 pm By Robert Spencer

The issue is this: is the U.S. going to confront, and formulate ways to blunt the influence of, the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism, or is it going to continue to ignore and deny that ideology, and pretend that jihad terrorism comes from something else? The answer to that question could well determine whether the U.S. prevails in this jihad, or is destroyed. H.R. McMaster is on the wrong side, and should be fired immediately.

“Shock: H.R. McMaster Calls 9/11 ‘Mass Murder Attack’ — No Mention of Islamic Terrorism,” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, October 12, 2017 (thanks to Jeffery):

NEW YORK — H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, labeled the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks “mass murder attacks,” instead of calling them acts of terrorism.

McMaster made the comments during a Tuesday event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) marking the 70th anniversary of the National Security Council (NSC).

He was addressing the expansion of the NSC from about fifty members in the 1960s, when it was run by Henry Kissinger, another CSIS speaker, to its current size of more than 360 employees.

“What has contributed to the growth over time, as well, from 50 or so to 167 is the emphasis on homeland security, especially after the mass murder attacks on our country on September 11, 2001,” McMaster stated.

McMaster was referring to about 167 policy workers at the NSC, which he explained employs about 360 people.

“We have made a conscious effort to reduce the size of the staff and to make sure that form follows function. As we devolve responsibilities back to departments and agencies, as we get out of, really, management of tactical issues, then we are able to reduce. So we have reduced significantly the numbers of policy people and overall staff. It was over four hundred or so at its peak. We are down to about 360-something now. That sounds like a lot. Of those 360, it’s really about 160 to 170 policy people.”

Watch the full speech below (relevant comments start at the 21-minute mark):

McMaster’s comments follow speeches given by numerous other Trump administration officials last month on the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks in which many of those officials, including President Donald Trump himself, did not once mention the terms “radical Islam” or “Islamic terrorism.”

As Breitbart News reported at the time, instead of naming the enemy, Trump seemingly went out of his way to use other descriptors in his 9/11 anniversary speech, including “terrorists who attacked us,” “barbaric forces of evil and destruction,” “horrible, horrible enemies,” “enemies of all civilized people,” and “enemies like we’ve never seen before.”

Those phrases were also not mentioned in speeches that day by other Trump administration senior officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Pence, speaking at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, referred to the scourge as “evil terrorists” and “global terrorism.” Pence did mention “the barbarians known as ISIS,” calling the global jihadist group by its acronym instead of the Islamic State.

Mattis, addressing the same Pentagon memorial as Trump, outwardly minimized the Islamic motivations of the terrorists by calling them “maniacs disguised in false religious garb.” He referred to “attackers perpetrating murder” on that fateful day, not even using the words “terrorist” or “terrorism.”

Sessions perhaps came closest to prescribing a religious ideology, calling out “extremists” who “seek to impose their speech codes, their religion, their theocracy.”

“For these extremists, it’s more than religion; it’s ideology,” he stated. “We have no choice but to defend against it.”

But Sessions did not mention a specific religion and did not expound upon which ideology the terrorists maintain.

McMaster has reportedly previously petitioned against using the phrase “Islamic terrorism.”…

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  1. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    Hence, whole philosophy of this bald National “security adviser” can be summed with this: See no Islamic evil, hear no Islamic evil, and absolutely do not even think about any possibility of Islamic evil. How in hell he ever gained ear of the President Trump with such attitude?

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 7:10 pm

      President Trump gets it ,..as evidenced by his primary debate remarks ” that these people hate us ” in reference to Islam. I thought the other Republicans were going to fall off the stage . Since he was advised by ESTABLISHMENT Republicans , he ended up with McMaster . This guy is CLUELESS with regards to the Qur’an which puts our Country at great risk. I wish Trump would fire him and hire Frank Gaffney as NSC Director. You will never solve the problem if you don’t recognize THE SOURCE.

      • KRJ says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 3:51 am

        I’m not sure he gets it… Thought he did until I read this morning that he’s allowed “1200 Middle Eastern Refugees from Australia Who Need ‘Mental Health’ Treatment” into the USA (Breitbart). HUGE disappointment. Also, research is showing again and again that few benefit from psychiatric treatment: psychiatry is an “Emperor’s New Clothes” industry raking in billions over the years and not curing a single person!

        • Screeminmeeme says

          Oct 13, 2017 at 11:17 am

          What a shame that Australia is so behind us in the field of psychiatry that they have to send patients here.

      • John Forbes says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 5:30 am

        TRUMP & HARPER IN CANADA ARE THE ONLY TWO IN THE WEST THAT SEEM AT LEAST IN PART SOMEWHAT AWAKE.
        THE WESTERN EUROPEANS ARE SO BUSY GROVELING TO ISLAM THAT THEY HARDLY HAVE ANY TIME TO LOOK UP LET ALONE FIGURE WHAT DAY IT IS!
        BETWEEN : WE ARE BUSY TRYING TO PROTECT LIES & LETTING THE BORDERS STAY OPEN & TRYING TO COME UP WITH MORE WAYS TO STIFLE DISSENT THERE IS LITTLE TIME TO ACTUALLY TURN THE CART LET ALONE CHANGE THE DIRECTION !
        NONE SEEM WILLING TO EVEN EXAMINE THE KORAN LET ALONE CHALLENGE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD C.A.I.R & MC MASTER IS NO EXCEPTION!

        HONEST IBRAHIM HOOPER – THE MASTER LIAR & FALSE PREMISE MAN WILL BE MORE THAN PLEASED WITH MC MASTER !!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 13, 2017 at 10:53 pm

          John, Canada no longer has Harper. Instead, they have the hideous dhimmi Trudeau.

      • Shane says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 8:56 pm

        Yes, it is very troubling that Trump has this Jihad-denier as one of his top advisers. McMaster is an Islamophile and a Dhimmi, and like Hillary, he has a Muslima as his stop aide.

    • Gordon Miller says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 2:16 pm

      Yes, this is not the first time that McMaster has shown his hand with regard to to the Islamists. He simply does not belong in the inner circle of advisors to the President given his view of the driving force of our enemy. He is simply blind to the reality of jihad and thus should be fired immediately.

  2. gravenimage says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    H.R. McMaster calls 9/11 a “mass murder attack,” makes no mention of Islamic jihad terrorism
    ……………………

    More unconscionable obfuscation.

    Not as bad as “Trutherism”, but still quite appalling denial.

    • Wellington says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 6:30 pm

      Seconded, gravenimage. So much of the West is still in denial about Islam’s “true worth,” always to the West’s detriment, always to the benefit of the most horrible religion ever created by man. It’s madness of course, but then so much in this age we live in is.

      Time for a beer. Stay well, my friend.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 10:59 pm

        Wellington, that we are here sixteen years after 9/11 and have a National Security Adviser who won’t even use the vague term “terrorism” is just sickening.

        Definitely time for a beer…

    • mortimer says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 9:43 pm

      Agree with GI: OBFUSCATION.

      9/11 was carried out by AL QAEDA with a clear mission: TO PUNISH AMERCANS FOR RESISTING ISLAM.

      Let us IDENTIFY the enemy precisely:

      The “International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders”.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 11:03 pm

        Muslims want *all* Infidels to submit, Mortimer–and are willing to slaughter all who balk at this.

  3. jewdog says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 3:47 pm

    McMaster Theme Song:

    • PRCS says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 11:01 am

      Oh, yeah!

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 4:22 pm

    It seems like the deck is stacked. There will be no relief from Islam until leaders can recognize what it is. That simple.

    • Wellington says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      Indeed, APF. That simple and yet time and time again made so unnecessarily complex.

  5. Jf says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    What can we do as everyday citizens to help get McMaster fired?

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 5:31 pm

      Tell your President what you think:

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

      or

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

      Someone will answer and take your message.

      • robeaver says

        Oct 12, 2017 at 6:29 pm

        Why?? Trump himself, did not mention islamic terror. It says so in this post. He has now capitulated. Useless. Watching the United states regress into insanity threatens the survival of the human species. And trump has now lost the only redeeming feature of this presidency. Confronting Islam. Guess he has money in Saudi Arabia. Money trumps all. Nice system.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Oct 13, 2017 at 10:52 pm

          robeaver, go to https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact and drop your comment into the comment box and press send. If enough people do that then it will become clear to Trump that he won’t get a second term.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 13, 2017 at 11:07 pm

          Trump still stands against Jihad more than most–and certainly more than did Obama.

          His problem is that he is not very knowledgeable about Islam itself, and hence is seldom consistent.

  6. rubiconcrest says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    How can H.R. McMaster call 9/11 a mass murder attack when it was aided and abetted by Islamic nation states? It was an act of war and he can’t name the enemy. If he thinks he can develop a comprehensive strategy to defeat the Islamic hydra monster without exposing the ideological base he is a fool. Please Mr. President fire him!

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    McMaster is running interference for the enemy. Sometimes such people get their comeuppance, especially when they are priggish in their stance.

    Oh, and by the way here’s an example:
    Ben “the buttman” Affleck may soon get his. It seems he might go the way of the ‘Weinstein.’
    I recall him being on his moral high horse just a while ago in defense of Mohammadism:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvdLY1ugyCo

    yuk yuk snicker snicker

  8. Dawn says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 6:29 pm

    Call it what it is stop being a coward it was a jihad terrorist attack.

  9. robeaver says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Perhaps it was faked like the moon landings? Maybe those leftists did it. Canada? Mexico?
    Just another mass murder attack. Could have been anybody. Could have been Israel. They have those leftist Jews.
    Not Islam. No way. So just rewrite or not write history. That works. Better than fake news. Call it SKIP news. We skip the part about islamic terror. I got it now.

  10. Sons of Liberty says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    The problem is our leaders always bring up that there are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world . We certainly don’t want to offend them because they will all become radical and believe in jihad. The problem with that kind of thinking is that they already BELIEVE IN JIHAD , because it is written in their Qur’an . Look at the Pew study that was done and it shows that a VAST MAJORITY in all Islamic countries believe that JIHAD is acceptable and that Sharia is the LAW. Hoping and understanding with the believers in a TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY is not a long term strategy for SURVIVAL. It has never worked in WORLD HISTORY with Islam and IT WON’T WORK NOW .

  11. saturnine says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    For these extremists, it’s more than religion; it’s ideology,” [Attorney General Jeff Sessions] stated.

    Well, he got that exactly backwards.

  12. Guy Forester says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    That would be like FDR declaring war against dive bombing and sneak attacks. At least even FDR got it right, even if he was a Democrat.

  13. mortimer says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    OH THOSE DARNED ‘MASS MURDERERS’ who just love MURDERING for NO reason!

    I can stand it. Pres. Trump promised to stop this nonsense. So stop it NOW.

  14. Lydia says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    The rabbit in the hat shuffle!

    Magically, he made the cause ‘disappear’! Wow!
    Magic!

  15. Guest says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 1:45 am

    It was mass murder but it was also a terrorist attack by jihadists

  16. terry says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 4:41 am

    Lol! There you go, seems like “the swamp” drained Trump!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 11:26 pm

      Why do you find this amusing?

  17. MFritz says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 6:23 am

    Hm. Doesn’t this basically mean that McMaster does not believe the official version of 11 towel heads succeeding in flight maneuvers even a master pilot couldn’t perform?

    And, sorry, I don’t see any reason NOT to believe the Truthers in regards to 9/11. No matter how despicable islamists may be.

    These attacks were WAY too convenient for too many involved* NOT to be AT LEAST known before:

    * speculation against the airlines WHILE THE ATTACK WAS GOING ON (read the Asian Times-article)
    * insurance fraud in regards to the buildings
    * WTC7 obviously pulled
    * too many “inconvenient” people died when the buildings fell (especially Pentagon), while others were especially warned to leave the buildings/not to come at that day
    * Bin Laden family members allowed to leave
    * fake phone calls from people on the planes (there’s even a famous clip with Colin Powell DEMONSTRATING this technology!)
    * war against Iraq
    * establishment of the NSA and patriot act

    Sorry, I haven’t been convinced of the official version in 16+ years. And calling people “truthers” and “conspiracy theorists” also doesn’t help. And phoney “debunking” neither.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 11:32 pm

      MFritz wrote:

      And, sorry, I don’t see any reason NOT to believe the Truthers in regards to 9/11.
      …………………..

      Ignore the threat of Islam, you “filthy Infidels”.

      Don’t you know all Jihad is pulled off by George Bush? Or is it Mossad or the Illuminati? Certainly not innocent Mohammedans…sarc/off

  18. JawsV says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 7:48 am

    McMaster’s a McMeathead.

  19. Ginny says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 8:18 am

    I cringe every time I hear 9/11 attributed solely to Islamic Jihad. The are a plethora of legitimate reasons to fear and resist Islamic tyranny and expansion, but 9/11 was more about money and increasing government control than Islam or anything else. Since its inception, islam has been a useful tool in the hands of elites who don’t want to get their own hands dirty. Confront Islam, yes, but let’s stick to the truth. Mossad involvement in 9/11 is just as likely, like it or not.

    I too want to see McMaster gone for pandering to Muslims, but let’s not fall for the old 9/11 myth any more.

    • Raja says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 12:04 pm

      Ginny,

      How could Mossad partner with Muslims to destroy US?

      Substantiate please and citation required..

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 11:40 pm

      Why is this thread overrun with “Truthers”?

      This one is especially appalling, blaming Jews for this act of Jihad.

      Why doesn’t she just convert to Islam now–if she hasn’t already?

  20. Rich says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 11:02 am

    the regime is just another in the line that appease islam/koran

  21. s says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 11:16 am

    wake up Comrades.. we are losing our Nation under the guise of being called a name…

  22. Screeminmeeme says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 11:18 am

    Trump is being McMastered to death.

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