Brennan's sickening Speech at NYU

John Brennan speaks before an audience of muslims at NYU. The man is clearly a full-fledged dhimmi.

Brennan, Unruffled, Talks Terror at NYU

President Barack Obama's embattled counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, delivered an emphatic defense Saturday of the Obama administration's rhetorical approach to terrorism — and also slipped in a few criticisms of Bush administration policies he suggested alienated Muslims at home and abroad.

In a speech at New York University’s law school, Brennan gave no nod to the calls for his resignation last week from the top Republicans on the House and Senate Intelligence committees. [Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also joined that bandwagon Sunday.]

Brennan seemed at ease speaking to the largely Muslim audience, which included Islamic law students. In fact, he broke out his Arabic at some length, drawing a warm reaction from the crowd. (Scroll to 5:43 in the first video below for that chunk. I think I hear the words youth and student in there.)

To me, the most interesting revelation was that Brennan, who has a hard-edged, tough-cop image, once traveled through Indonesia sporting an earring and long hair.

Some of the most newsworthy stuff came during a lengthy Q-and-A session that the White House just posted on the Web. In response to a questioner who wants a New York City trial for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Brennan was noncommittal but seemed to favor a civilian trial if practicalities could be worked out.

"As far as support from the community and the funding requirement, the most important thing to keep in mind is we need to bring him to justice in an American court," Brennan said, according to the New York Daily News. “Whether it happens in New York, Pennsylvania or Virginia, where will funding come from? ... Clearly, this is an issue people in the city feel strongly about. … We are trying to push this forward as best we can, but we also need nonobstruction from certain forces in our government. … There are stiff winds delaying us from bringing this man to justice.”

While figures like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have accused Obama of being soft on terrorism because he avoids terms like “war on terror” and “jihadist,” Brennan strongly endorsed the president’s approach.

“They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify for a legitimate purpose, and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children,” Brennan said. “We are not waging a war against terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic that will never be defeated, any more than a tactics of war will. Rather, such thinking is a recipe for endless conflict. ... We are at war with Al Qaeda and its extremist allies, and any comment to the contrary is just inaccurate. We will destroy that organization.”

Brennan also charged that some actions by the U.S. government, presumably the Bush administration, underscored perceptions that the U.S. was in conflict with Islam. He cited as examples of overreach: “Violations of the Patriot Act. Surveillance that has been excessive. Policies perceived as profiling. Overinclusive no-fly lists subjecting law-abiding individuals to unnecessary searches and inconvenience. Creating an unhelpful atmosphere around many Muslim charities that made many Muslims hesitant to fulfill their sacred obligation of Zakat.”

Brennan’s statement that some individuals, presumably Muslims, were subjected to “excessive” surveillance is one I have not heard before from government officials and one that will hearten civil liberties advocates who have claimed that mosques were subjected to unwarranted scrutiny.

This speech is absolutely pathetic. For this speech alone he ought to be fired. In the first place he has bought into, or at least pretended to buy into the soft and fuzzy nonsense that jihad is a personal inner struggle to improve oneself. Jihad most certainly means holy war against infidels to force them to submit to islam, convert or be killed and to bring about a global muslim caliphate. Murdering innocent infidel men, women and children very much comports with islam. It is true we are not engaged in a war with terrorism, which is a tactic of war, but we ARE engaged in a war with islam, not simply al qaeda and its allies who's motivation to wage war comes from the koran and hadiths. They cannot be treated as separate.

What profiling? Our government has gone out of its way NOT to profile muslims and instead subjecting everybody to unnecessary searches and inconvenience. Why is it somehow a violation of rights to single out muslims but OK if its done to everyone? That makes no sense. With regard to the poor muslims being hesitant to fulfill their obligation to zakat, there is every reason to be suspicious of muslim charities since they are all fronts for terrorism. I should hope the authorities are watching these organizations, but I doubt it.

At times, Brennan suggested that the entirety of the American Muslim community has always stood 100 percent behind U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. "America has rarely noticed that American Muslims, such as yourself, have always denounced violent extremism," Brennan said, citing the head of the NYU center.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Groups such as CAIR have been doing everything in their power to undermine our anti-terrorism efforts. And if the muslim community denounces violence on its behalf as Brennan claims, then why is it that in the country's largest muslim community, the Detroit area, they couldn't get more than double digit numbers to show up at an anti-terrorism rally last month when the panty bomber was being arraigned?

Overall, a sickening, pandering, pathetic speech. And these are the type of people responsible for safeguarding America. It doesn't make you sleep well at night.