Fox's Clayton Morris suggests Obama admin doesn't "understand who our enemy really is" and is "legitimizing jihad"
May 29, 2010 9:54 am ET
From the May 29 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Saturday:
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And so the guy clayton morris, he actually made sense I thought, he referred to semantics and 'political correctness' and seemed to be pointing out that the administration's counter-terrorism efforts isn't what's being discussed here, but instead Brennan's strange comments about Islam and about what the definition of the word "jihad" is...
Correct, we have people now getting all flustered about Brennan's theological opinions (or even statement of facts), now they get to run wild by interpreting (or misinterpreting) his comments as either "legitimizing jihad" or worse yet dismissing terrorism as a threat...
Well that's what happens when officials like Brennan think it's their job to give opinions about religion, about Islam or about whatever the word "jihad" means.
Who cares, who gives a crap about theology and religion, see what happens when you take your eye off the law enforcement ball, when you appear to be concerned with theology and religion, versus murder and murderers and stopping them...
And so the next time you board an airplane, you feel safe knowing that the TSA and the FAA and Homeland Security and the FBI and the CIA and this Brennan guy, they're all informed about matters of theology and religion, they all have the proper definition of "jihad" down pat, that makes us safer?
I have a question, what if in truth nothing that these murderers do (such as the September 11 2001 attacks) truly has anything to do with religion, what if their attacks are variously just a blood lust to murder, or is otherwise entirely political, as in using terror to politically manipulate people or to simply destabilize a government politically (like in IRAQ or Afghanistan), what if it's just murder and/or politics?
Does it then make sense that you'd descend into strange intellectual discussions about Islam, or about whatever the word "jihad" truly means?
And if you're an intellectual or a professor or an author, then you might answer that question yes, you might love these strange theological digressions as a matter of profession...
But for Brennan?
So you see what happens when law enforcement types and others in that same loop, they take their eye off the ball, off of murder and murderers, and start giving their expert opinions about Islam and even about what the word "jihad" means (as though they were determined to get the lexicography straightened out), when in fact these murderers may simply be using religion to disguise their blood lust for murder, to even disguise their political motivations... and even if they believed themselves 'religious', or even were truly 'religious' (and who could ever know that for sure), then still what difference does it make, who cares about the reasons that murderers give for what they do, just identify them and stop them, kill them before they kill you or anyone else.
Right, next time you board an airplane, make sure you give any and all law enforcement officers an exam about Islam, ask them if they know the true and proper definition of the word "jihad"...
It's the same as giving them a test to see if their eye is on the ball, on the murderers and the murders they commit, or if instead their heads are stuck up their intellectual digressions about Islam and religion, like Brennan's head seems to be.
That caught my attention too, that when asked about the administration's efforts in light of the fact they have made some number of arrests and/or kills, she screeches that the administration is a failure... and then does us the disservice of not saying why, or explaining what failure is in this regard.
As far as that woman's purpose on Fox television news, and of Fox's purpose too, I'd have asked her flatly and point blank, what does she have to do with the saudi ruling family, what is her relationship to them, does she work for them or is she otherwise in their chain of command, and does she think the saudi ruling family is behind terror and bombings in IRAQ and/or Afghanistan, and did they fund and direct the attacks of September 11 2001?
I wouldn't need to ask that question of anybody who works at Fox television news though, because I already know the answer... yes, they do have a relationship to the saudi ruling family, they are in their employ, as saudis own a significant stake in News Corp.
Which is why Fox television news never talks at all about saudi involvement in terror or bombings, in the IRAQ insurgency (that kills U.S. Troops by way of roadside bombs), or in the attacks of September 11 2001, because saudis own and direct the employees of Fox television news, by way of owning a stake in News Corp.
So it's always about Islam, and never about saudis, you're always being misdirected to a religion, or to the vaguely named 'extremists' or 'al qaeda', that's what they do at Fox, and that's also why it makes me angry to see any administration official (Brennan in this case) taking that stupid bait, and talking in terms of 'extremists' or even descending to talk about Islam, being drawn off into this stupid talk by people like the woman in the video clip, and Fox television news in general, they're the ones who work overtime to distract Americans into talk of Islam and theology, versus talking about their employers, the murderous saudi ruling family (and the question stands about the woman in the video clip, does she work for them, for saudis? I know everybody else at Fox does).
The right wants to cover everyone in single words like terrorists, jihads, Muslims, etc, without caring that not all Muslims go around killing people and that jihad is a holy word for purifying the soul, not waging wars.
First of all, who can possibly stomach the way this woman speaks? She yells like she's talking into a freaking megaphone. Tone it down, lady, or get a hearing aid.
Second, how the hell is it a FAILURE that, under President Obama, 55 homegrown Muslim terrorists have been arrested and captured? Last time I checked, it's a success when you capture any kind of terrorist. Just because they are emboldened isn't at the fault of the Obama administration... they are emboldened because they are terrorists who want to create terror. It's not like they go through phases of wanting to terrorize... they make a living out of it. No evidence shows that Obama has done anything to make them want to do anymore than they already did under the Bush administration. Furthermore, how do we know there aren't 50 or even 100 homegrown terrorists out there that are NOT Islamic? There could be that many Christian militia groups like the ones that have been popping up lately. How does this lady, seeing as how she is Christian herself, feel if that was the case? Hell, how does she feel about these home grown militia groups within the US, in general? Does she approve of them because they have the same religious beliefs? If so, that would make her a terrorist sympathizer.
Third, I did some research on this woman, and she has been known to spread blantantly illegitimate fear about the Middle East attempting to scare the bajeezus out of the American people claiming that the Arab world is worse than Israel because the Arabs are barbarians and just completely smearing anybody who is from that region or remotely Islamic.
Fourth, with myself having a Middle Eastern background and my family coming from Iran (but not being raised in any religious beliefs), I find it extremely shameful that this old lying hag, with her arrogant demeanor, comes in and utters these ridiculous judgments about the Middle East and Arab people. She doesn't know a damn thing about the Islamic religion other than the bad aspects of it and chooses to ignore the good in religion, regardless of how much she may hate it. She has a serious case of ignorance... it makes me sick.