I know what he was trying to say; that there are some schools of Islamic thought that defines "jihad" as unarmed "struggle" by the pious Muslim against his own weaknesses.So what?That's not how our enemies describe Jihad. The Islamists combine religious fervor with a fanatical political ideology that instructs them to kill those who won't submit. It really is that simple and the idea that we have top officials (Brennan isn't the only one who holds this view) in the Obama White House who pretend that Islamists don't believe what they actually believe is worse than self-delusion; it is bordering on criminal negligence: The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies. During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of "political,...(Read Full Post)