Obama Offers Olive Branch To Muslims In Aftermath Of Terror Review

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President Obama and his top terrorism advisers warned young Muslims against interest in Al Qaeda yesterday in little-noticed comments detailing the aftermath of Flight 253.

Tucked into Obama’s readout of the review into how a man was allowed to board the Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day with explosives in his underwear was a message to the Islamic world that the president has been offering since he took office.

“We know that the vast majority of Muslims reject Al Qaeda,” Obama said.

The president directed his national security team to strategize ways to deal with the “unique” challenge of lone recruits.

“We must communicate clearly to Muslims around the world that Al Qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death, including the murder of fellow Muslims, while the United States stands with those who seek justice and progress,” he said.

The White House has taken a layered approach to pushing Obama’s plan for a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, from town halls in Turkey to his speech to Islamic nations in Cairo last summer.

Obama’s Homeland Security adviser John Brennan also said Al Qaeda’s strategy “uses the banner of religion in a very perverse and corrupt way” to attract people like the Flight 253 suspect for use in similar attack attempts.

“He was motivated by a sense of religious sort of drive,” Brennan said. “Unfortunately, Al Qaeda has perverted Islam and has corrupted the concept of Islam so that they’ve been able to attract these individuals. But Al Qaeda has the agenda of destruction and death.”

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