Law Enforcement Must Not Ignore Jihadist Ideology

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The combination of growing jihadist violence and the looming choice of a Commander-in-Chief to contend with it may catalyze a long-overdue debate about how to defeat Islamic supremacism. 

Yesterday, it involved New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton who sharply criticized Sen. Ted Cruz.  After the latest attacks in Brussels, the GOP candidate had sensibly urged that U.S. law enforcement ramp-up efforts to protect Muslim communities here against jihadist elements and the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure that supports them. 

Commissioner Bratton retorted that “terrorism is ideologically driven but counterterrorism…has no ideological component whatsoever.”  

In fact, as long as police aren’t allowed to assess potentially threatening Muslims by evaluating their attachment to the supremacist sharia ideology, even exemplars like the NYPD are doomed to be rendered less effective in protecting us than we need them to be. 

This is Frank Gaffney.