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H.R. McMaster avoids Islamic jihad terrorist label again, calls NYC jihadi a “mass murderer”

Nov 4, 2017 8:34 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, referred to the Islamic terrorist suspect in Tuesday’s deadly jihadist attack in Lower Manhattan as among a grouping of “mass murderers.”

“Embattled” is right. McMaster is at odds with the Trump administration’s war against jihad terror, which motivated the President to issue a temporary ban on immigration from Muslim countries of concern, countries which were first identified by the Obama administration as problematic. Yet McMaster still refuses to acknowledge the nature of this war.

It was also recently reported that returning Islamic State jihadists were not just a threat to Britain and other parts of Europe, but that they were also making their way back into the US, creating a threat that is within McMaster’s jurisdiction of national security.

The Lower Manhattan attack is not the first time McMaster referred to a jihad attack as “mass murder.” He did the same in calling the 9/11 attack a “mass murder,” with no mention of the motivation of Islamic jihad behind it.

The jihad suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, “left behind a note declaring that the attack was perpetuated in the name of the Islamic State.” Saipov shouted “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “Allah is greater,” during the attack. Yet still McMaster refuses to acknowledge the role of the Islamic religion in the attack. Yet the jihadis have made their motives and goals clear. In the case of 9/11, the mastermind of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “revealed that al Qaeda’s plan to kill the United States was not through military attacks but immigration and ‘outbreeding nonmuslims’ who would use the legal system to install Sharia law.”

McMaster thinks (or pretends to think) that “extremists” are not religious people, despite their determination to expand the domains of Sharia by whatever means. This misguided view veils the fact that it is precisely Islamic religious zeal that motivates jihadists. From the Wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia — which is the same Wahhabi ideology that governs the Islamic State — to the terrorist state of Iran, ruled by its religious supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, one cannot deny the devoted religiosity of Islamic jihadists; yet McMaster remains in denial.

“H.R. McMaster Avoids Islamic Terrorist Label Again, Calls Manhattan Jihadist a ‘Mass Murderer’”, by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, November 3, 2017:

(New York) H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, referred to the Islamic terrorist suspect in Tuesday’s deadly jihadist attack in Lower Manhattan as among a grouping of “mass murderers.”

This despite reports that the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, left behind a note declaring that the attack was perpetuated in the name of the Islamic State. And witnesses heard Saipov shout “Allahu Akbar!,” Arabic for “Allah is great,” during the terrorist assault.

McMaster has a history of minimizing the radical Islamic nature of such attacks. Only last month, he labeled the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks “mass murder attacks,” instead of calling them acts of terrorism. This reporter previously exposed numerous other instances of McMaster minimizing the Islamic motivations of radical Muslim terrorists.

The latest incident came during a White House press briefing on Wednesday, when a reporter posed the following question to McMaster:

I know we’re focused on the Asia trip here, but I just wanted to talk for a second about the President weighing in on the man who’s been charged with mowing down pedestrians in New York City. He called for the death penalty. Have there been any conversations in the White House about how that could complicate prosecutors’ efforts, and even help the defense claim that this person can’t get a fair trial?

McMaster replied (emphasis added):

What the President wants is to secure the American people from this threat and from mass murderers like this, murderers like this. And so what he’s asked us for are options to take a look to assess if our tremendous law enforcement teams and our judicial system has all the tools they need to be able to combat this threat to the American people.

So what we owe him now is we owe him options — you know, options to take a look at to see if this is the time to reassess, change our capabilities in this area and the area of law enforcement in particular……

In February, CNN cited a source inside a National Security Council meeting quoting McMaster as saying that use of the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” is unhelpful in working with allies to fight terrorism.

In May, McMaster spoke on ABC’s This Week about whether Trump would use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” in a speech that the president was about to give in Saudi Arabia. “The president will call it whatever he wants to call it,” McMaster said. “But I think it’s important that, whatever we call it, we recognize that [extremists] are not religious people. And, in fact, these enemies of all civilizations, what they want to do is to cloak their criminal behavior under this false idea of some kind of religious war.”

This reporter previously exposed numerous instances of McMaster’s minimizing the Islamic motivations of radical Muslim terrorists.

Breitbart News unearthed a 2014 speech about the Middle East in which McMaster claimed that Islamic terrorist organizations are “really un-Islamic” and are “really irreligious organizations” who cloak themselves in the “false legitimacy of Islam.”

Delivering the keynote address at last April’s Norwich University ROTC Centennial Symposium, McMaster criticized “modern-day barbarians like Daesh and al-Qaeda who cynically use a perverted interpretation of religion to perpetuate ignorance, incite hatred, and commit the most heinous crimes against innocents.”

Breitbart News also reported that McMaster endorsed and touted a book that frames jihad as a largely peaceful “means to struggle or exert effort,” such as waking up early in the morning to recite prayers. It argues that groups like al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have hijacked the concept of jihad to wage warfare using such tactics as suicide bombings.

That same book calls Hamas an “Islamist political group” while failing to categorize the deadly organization as a terrorist group and refers to al-Qaeda attacks and anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance.”

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  1. RichardL says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 8:38 am

    McMaster is an Obama general. Just like the judge in Bergdahl’s court martial. Enough said.

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 3:11 pm

      If it is so, why Pres. Trump still keeps “not his own” generals in his cabinet? Inconvenient generals can be send (as punishment) for tough foreign mission or early retirement (Obama did that quite frequently), but if you keep the ones in your tent, that means you approve their stance.

    • TassieR says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 4:50 am

      Both are traitors (not to the Swamp, but of course).

    • John Forbes says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 5:23 am

      GET RID OF MCMASTER AS WE HAVE ALL STATED MANY TIMES. THIS GUY IS POISON & AN OBAMA /CLINTON CARRY OVER !

      THIS IS JIHAD ATTACKING – PLAIN & SIMPLE !!

      THE OBJECT IS TERROR LEADING TO SUBMISSION & DOMINANCE OF NON BELIEVERS & THIS MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN !! EVER !!!

    • Gordon Miller says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 6:29 am

      He really needs to go. A resignation would be the best way. He shouldn’t be giving the President advice on foreign affairs.

    • p bay says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 11:36 am

      CAN mCbASTARD SAY “SUPERPREDATOR?”

    • J D S says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      I have noticed the lack of use of the words “Radical islamic terrorist”
      recently coming from the White House, government officials etc..Am I missing something here?????

  2. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 8:54 am

    Isis is judeochristian sponsored mass murderers who kill Muslims to reduce world muslim population. killing their mentors filthy Christians and evil Jews is just a few cover up. why not carryingout such mass murder inside evil state of Israhell? some idiots are telling us that evil Zionists have better security system.It is a lie

    • Paul N Silas says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 9:06 am

      God have mercy on you, you sick twisted troll

      • J D S says

        Nov 5, 2017 at 6:15 pm

        Yes Paul N Silas he/she is Just another brainwashed Ishmaelite on the “road to destruction”

    • don vito says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 11:51 am

      ISIS, per news reports, have killed Kufr. Have ISIS killed moslems labeled apostate and hypocrites? That is halal, islamic warfare by islamopaths like you. Lay off the camel urine, and answer this: How does a kufr protect blood and property from the vile, evil, twisted hands of your imbecilic, filthy prophet?

    • mortimer says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 3:14 pm

      Ibrahim, you are psychiatric. Islam is a house of mirrors and a house of horrors and sadomasochism.

    • JawsV says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      Ignore the brain-damaged Muslim. Centuries of in-breeding produced him.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 4, 2017 at 10:55 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Isis is judeochristian sponsored mass murderers who kill Muslims to reduce world muslim population. killing their mentors filthy Christians and evil Jews is just a few cover up. why not carryingout such mass murder inside evil state of Israhell? some idiots are telling us that evil Zionists have better security system.It is a lie
      …………………………

      Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that he agrees with the rape of Infidels, the murder of “blasphemers”, and the slaughter of unbelievers–everything that ISIS stands for.

      So why is he pretending that these most piously Islamic of Muslims are “judeochristian”? Likely they just present rivals for his own favored founders of the Caliphate.

    • IanB says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 10:27 am

      Dear Ibrahim,
      I do hope you are not banned from commenting on JW.
      Your incoherent, unsubstantiated, idiotic diatribes are always good for a laugh.
      You must be a descent of your vile so-called prophet who invented your cult by stealing the pagan arabs’ moon god and crudely cobbling together the Koran your manual of hate – all for his greed for power, lust and possessions.

    • p bay says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 11:39 am

      Isis is heathen sponsored mass murderers who kill anybody to reduce world non- muslim population. killing their mentors, the filthy shia muslims and evil muslims is just a few cover up. why not carrying out such mass murder inside evil state of Islam? some idiots are telling us that evil islamics…have better security system. It is a lie

      An inbred muslim wrote the other version. He should learn english..

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 6, 2017 at 12:33 am

      Apologist for Islamic savagery Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Isis is judeochristian sponsored mass murderers who kill Muslims to reduce world muslim population. killing their mentors filthy Christians and evil Jews is just a few cover up. why not carryingout such mass murder inside evil state of Israhell? some idiots are telling us that evil Zionists have better security system.It is a lie
      ………………………………….

      More cut-and-paste from this vile Mohammedan.

      The odd thing is, of course, while he pretends that ISIS is “judeochristian”, he has actually confirmed every major action by ISIS here at Jihad Watch at one time or another–raping Infidels, using them as sex slaves, murdering apostates, killing any critics of Islam, and committing genocide against Jews and other unbelievers.

      In other words, he agree with everything that ISIS stands for.

      So why is he opposed to them? I can only assume he considers his group a rival to Al Baghdadi to run the Caliphate.

  3. Mac-101 says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 10:20 am

    Has McMasters ReVered as John O. Brennan supposedly did? How hard is that to find out? Do they purposefully eat pulled pork sandwiches to throw everyone off the trail?
    .
    OR is it da OIL TICK MONEY!

  4. Benedict says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 10:38 am

    “McMaster thinks (or pretends to think) that “extremists” are not religious people, …” – “McMaster has a history of minimizing the radical Islamic nature of such attacks.” – “McMaster minimizing the Islamic motivations of radical Muslim terrorists.” – – –

    “I have been made victorious by terror.” –

    This canonical saying alone is sufficient to radicalize and turn a believing Muslim into a beastly killing machine thus disclosing the religion that prompts his actions.

    When these words germinate in the mind of a Muslim through the watering of resentment and the belief that Mohammad was the perfect man and example to be emulated, we have a *Muslim* terrorist in the making. Only natural human decency, cowardice or the idea that violence and terror are not yet expedient tools to be used in order to submit the world to Islam, prevent “moderate” Muslims from becoming terrorists.

    The theoretical underpinnings for the use of terror in order to spread Islam are, directly and by implication, presented in abundance in the canon of Islam. Any simpleminded and honest student can understand the framework of Islam, so when a leading politician or national security adviser, or a learned professor can’t se the obvious, it’s because he won’t. His agenda may be admirable: while fearing the consequences of a logical and congruent implementation of Islam in “dar al-harb”, he attempts to steer the understanding, and thereby Muslims, away from such a fateful interpretation using flattery, slick persuasion and any possible and impossible canonical text to support his wishful thinking. Or he may be crafty and in his heart support and promote – by pretending ignorance – the lies and abominable destruction that prepares the way for Islam in the West and heralds the ruling iron fist that’s bound to follow. Hopefully McMaster doesn’t belong in the last category.

    The rise and strength of Islam in our hemisphere is facilitated by the weakness of the West. And the weakness of the West is especially the strength of the Left, and the strength of the Left is secular humanism with its dogma that “Man is the measure of all things”.
    Here is where the Left and Islam meet: Islam will sarcastically and to excess provide the gullible Left – and the mirroring, counter-reactive Right – with the man who is the measure of all things – and he and his clones are not a pleasant sight to behold.

  5. don vito says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 11:56 am

    Myopic leadership is no leadership, continue the whacomoslem, until?

  6. Sam says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    MCMASTER=TRAITOR OF AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TRUMP

  7. JawsV says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    This meathead is our National Security Advisor? We better get a new one stat.

  8. gravenimage says

    Nov 4, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    H.R. McMaster avoids Islamic jihad terrorist label again, calls NYC jihadi a “mass murderer”
    ……………….

    Whatta maroon…

  9. Lorensacho says

    Nov 5, 2017 at 8:41 am

    McMaster doesn’t want to contribute to a race war. The race or ideology of criminals should not be mentioned in order to keep revenge minded people from attacking innocents. Not mentioning the words radical Islam doesn’t mean that McMaster is not doing everything he can to oppose this evil ideology.

    • Rodders says

      Nov 5, 2017 at 9:28 am

      Lorensacho ; The failure to mention “Islam” or “Radical Islam” as the driving force behind the attack merely obscures the truth. If the ideology behind the attack is to be confronted and defeated, the truth is essential and should not be hidden no matter whom it may offend.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 6, 2017 at 12:42 am

      Lorensacho wrote:

      McMaster doesn’t want to contribute to a race war. The race or ideology of criminals should not be mentioned in order to keep revenge minded people from attacking innocents. Not mentioning the words radical Islam doesn’t mean that McMaster is not doing everything he can to oppose this evil ideology.
      ……………………

      I’m sorry–this is just silly.

      Firstly, Islam has *nothing* to do with race. It is–as you note–an *ideology*. Ideology has nothing to do with race, and can be adopted–or rejected–by people of any ethnicity.

      And then I note that you appear to be more concerned over phantom “revenge minded people” than you are over *actual* victims of Jihad.

      Lying to Americans about the source of this evil cannot be defended.

  10. henner720 says

    Nov 5, 2017 at 4:48 pm

    to appeace the saudi terror state, who is an allied.

  11. alex says

    Nov 5, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    McMaster needs to be fired. To think that some of these appeasers were generals, it’s no wonder that the USA cannot win any war.

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