The president’s top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a “legitimate tenet of Islam,” arguing that the term “jihadists” should not be used to describe America’s enemies.

During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.”

via FOXNews.com – Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as ‘Legitimate Tenet of Islam’.

I guess they are just friends of the president, much like so many other terrorists who are in charge of our country right now.