As Brian noted last week, anti-Islam activists are gearing up to oppose John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, for supposedly being too sympathetic to Islam. Not only is Brennan’s ability to speak Arabic of concern to them, but so are comments he made stating that his travels in Islamic countries have taught him about “the goodness and beauty of Islam” and “helped to shape my own world view.”
And that sort of attitude is unacceptable to people like Mat Staver who suggests that Brennan’s experience with Islam will make him unwilling to go after terrorists, warning that “if our CIA Director has had his worldview shaped by this kind of radical ideology, that should be concerning to every American”:
