THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
February 24, 2017
The New York Times

National Security Adviser:
Muslims Who Commit Terrorist Acts Are Perverting Their Religion

by Mark Landler

WASHINGTON -- 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. . . .

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