McMaster “sees the threat of Islam through an Obama administration lens, meaning that religion has nothing to do with the war we are in.”

When jihad terrorists the world over are invoking the Qur’an and Sunnah to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, this is a self-defeating stance that prevents American officials from understanding the enemy and devising ways to counter that enemy properly. This was something Trump appeared to be saying during his campaign that he would end. When he rebuked Obama and Hillary Clinton for refusing to say “radical Islamic terrorism,” he seemed to be saying that he would deal realistically with the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat. Trump has failed, and betrayed that promise.

“Gorka says McMaster has ‘Obama lens’ on threat of radical Islam,” by Michael Wilner, Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2017: