Jihad Has a Friend in Washington

Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. John Brennan, the administration’s top counter-terrorism official, tells us that jihad is a “legitimate tenet of Islam.” In a wide-ranging apology for Muslim terror, he asserted that the word “jihad” should not be used;

nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children.

Needless to say, he also deplores any reference to the religion of the attackers as well as the use of the word terrorism, and blames the violence against American and other targets on “political, economic, and social forces.”

For a summary of the speech, see this article from Fox News. For a more in-depth analysis, see the pieces in Gates of Vienna and Hyscience. For an earlier story on Brennan’s other shenanigans, see this post in FrontPage. If you can stomach it, read the entire speech by Brennan here.

I was just in the process of meditating, this Memorial Day, on the ultimate sacrifice. The fallen have died to preserve our freedom and way of life. Meanwhile, the usurper in the White House and his cohorts are currently engaged in the dismantling of the United States. How many more will die?