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fountainofyouth

(409 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 10:50 PM Feb 2017

H.R. McMaster Breaks With Administration on Views of Islam [View all]

Source: New York Times

President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world.

The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council on Thursday, in his first “all hands” staff meeting, that the label “radical Islamic terrorism” was not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic,” according to people who were in the meeting.

That is a repudiation of the language regularly used by both the president and General McMaster’s predecessor, Michael T. Flynn, who resigned last week after admitting that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about a phone call with a Russian diplomat.

It is also a sign that General McMaster, a veteran of the Iraq war known for his sense of history and independent streak, might move the council away from the ideologically charged views of Mr. Flynn, who was also a three-star Army general before retiring.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/hr-mcmaster-trump-islam.html



McMaster is someone who could have served very comfortably in the Obama administration. I hope he gains the clear upper hand against Bannon and Co., and sooner rather than later.
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Yes, and sounds like he might gain the upper hand, elleng Feb 2017 #1
It'll be interesting to see how long he lasts.... president bannon may not take too kindly to this. groundloop Feb 2017 #2
So far Trump has 1 person he has hired that has common sense and Doreen Feb 2017 #3
I'm more interested in the CONSEQUENCES, elleng Feb 2017 #5
they almost fired Devos oddly enough PatrynXX Feb 2017 #6
I am wondering though if they will fire McMaster for having common Doreen Feb 2017 #7
"Naturally she's a woman" ? Really? This is your reasoning??? Squinch Feb 2017 #11
He's not going to get along with Gorka dalton99a Feb 2017 #4
LIking McMaster so...finally someone with common sense and their head on straight...yay! iluvtennis Feb 2017 #8
Makes me wonder if he's going to be the scapegoat if... when something goes wrong ck4829 Feb 2017 #9
To outside observers, the administrations approach to the world appears increasingly schizophrenic. HAB911 Feb 2017 #10
He'll be replaced. BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #12
He will either be replaced.... paleotn Feb 2017 #13
As anybody remotely acquainted with Islam should know. malthaussen Feb 2017 #14
Seven Days in May. roamer65 Feb 2017 #15
Awesome reference. although in that case, a populist general mounted KingCharlemagne Feb 2017 #18
One of these things is not like the others. How did a sane man slip by the vetting process? Squinch Feb 2017 #16
Kushner wanted him poli3 Feb 2017 #17
How long will he last? uppityperson Feb 2017 #19
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