Mr. Bostom said Mr. Brennan's view is "a dangerous concatenation of hard-left, Islamophile cultural relativism and the relentless, successful 'Islamic dawa' effort of generations of jihadists."
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In his 2007 book, "The Legacy of Jihad," Mr. Bostom stated that the deaths caused by Muslim attacks "should remind us that there is just one historically relevant meaning of jihad, despite contemporary apologetics … Jahada, the root of the word jihad, appears 40 times in the Koran … meant and means 'he fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like.'"
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