McMaster says about the President retweeting videos of Muslims being violent: “Well, President Trump is the best judge of why he did that. But I know it was his intention to highlight the importance of creating safe and secure environments for our citizens — to make sure that we have the right laws in place, enforcement mechanisms in place, to ensure that, at this critical time, when ISIS is being defeated in the Middle East, that there is no return of terrorists and extremists who can pose a risk to the American people, or to our allies and partners.”

Fair enough. So far, so good. But then Chris Wallace says: “The woman whose tweets that he sent out has been convicted of hate crimes.”

Taking the British government’s actions as any authority without noticing its longstanding pattern of welcoming jihad preachers while hounding and persecuting foes of jihad terror is, at best, irresponsible journalism.

Wallace adds: “But his tweets were all about anti-Muslim — about Muslim violence, he was making it.” That he would buy into the establishment narrative that opposing jihad terror is “anti-Muslim” betrays a massive confusion on his part.

McMaster then says: “Well, those who adhere — those who adhere to this ideology are really irreligious criminals who use a perverted — what the president has called, a wicked interpretation of religion in an effort to — you know, to recruit young, impressionable people to their cause, to foment hatred, and use that hatred to perpetuate violence.”

Note that to say that the Islamic State adheres to a “perverted” interpretation of Islam is not at all the same thing as saying that it holds to a “wicked” interpretation of Islam.

In any case, McMaster does not specify how the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam is “perverted.” Nor can he. This is yet more Obamoid wishful thinking. Trump, who campaigned on the strong implication that he would allow for a more realistic view of what we’re up against than Obama did, should not tolerate it in his White House. Fire McMaster!

“H.R. McMaster talks North Korea threat, Michael Flynn deal,” Fox News, December 3, 2017: