Who is applauding the appointment of H. R. McMaster as national security adviser? Leading the applause are mainstream counterterror analysts whose policy recommendations are based on false premises and have failed time and time again. But even as the world is in flames because of their wrongheadedness, they still keep pushing the same failed analyses […]
Obama plan to stop “violent ideologies” doesn’t mention Islam, but Qatar-funded Brookings Inst says it still singles out Muslims
“William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution policy research group in Washington, said the idea of asking ‘the community’ to get involved with stopping violent ideology implies Muslim communities are aware of who may be violent jihadists and have the responsibility to stop them. ‘The community is just a code word for the […]
New York Times: Only “fringe interpretations of Islam” justify violence, “mainstream majority view is peaceful”
Max Fisher, now of the New York Times, here spends 1,764 words purportedly to explain what the phrase “radical Islam” means and why it is controversial, and devotes nary a single one of them to exploring the Qur’an, or the teachings and example of Muhammad, or the doctrines of the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence […]