Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, August 08, 2009 1:23:07 AM
"...there is no way to call the current form of militant Islam "a holy struggle for a moral goal". - Boris Tiraspolsky
John Brennan,
Head of the White House homeland security office
John Brennan said: "The President does not describe this as a 'war on terrorism'. We are at war with al Qaeda. We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda. To say the U.S. is fighting "jihadists" is wrongheaded because it is using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal which risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself. As for the "war on terrorism," the administration is not going to say that because 'terrorism' is but a tactic — a means to an end, which in al Qaedas case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate. You can never fully defeat a tactic like terrorism any more than you can defeat the tactic of war itself. President has encouraged us to be even more aggressive, even more proactive, and even more innovative. Inflammatory rhetoric, hyperbole, and intellectual narrowness surrounding the national security debate according to the President has views that are nuanced, not simplistic; practical, not ideological."
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
The people in the White house are either totally ignorant, or have some sort of a "second agenda".
And I honestly do not know what worst is.
They say: " 'terrorism' is but a tactic — a means to an end".
They seem not!
Modern Terrorism in any form and shape is pure IDEOLOGY.
The main principle of that "wrong ideology" is to justify a right for annihilation of existing political, economic, social and cultural way of life and replacing it with Ethics and Esthetics categorically and forcefully denying values and rights of a defeated "enemy".
Tactic of the Modern Terrorism is and always has been TERROR.
Jacobin's terror against French aristocracy and opposition, Bolshevik's "red terror" against own people, Nazi's terror against other nations and ethnic groups, and etc.
The people in the White House are dangerously wrong stating that: "To say the U.S. is fighting "jihadists" is wrongheaded because it is using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal...!"
"Jihad" in Islam does have many different forms.
However, there is no way to call the current form of militant Islam as "to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal".
"Jihad by sword" uniting millions
Muslims who support militant Islam is aimed to annihilate all "infidel" nations, including the United States by any means including Weapons of Mass Destruction.
It is the IDEOLOGY using TERROR as an instrument for achieving this evil objective.