Call the Terrorists What They Are

(THE DAILY BEAST) via INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News ^ | May 21, 2009 | Steven Emerson

[Cindy]

Call the Terrorists What They Are

The foiled plot to bomb New York synagogues, disclosed today, highlights the absurdity, and danger, of Obama's avoiding the term "Islamic radicals."

by Steven Emerson IPT News May 21, 2009

Note: This article originally appeared on the website The Daily Beast. Click here to see the original.

There are several lessons that the U.S. government and public should learn from the foiled plot by four radical Muslims, disclosed today, to bomb synagogues in New York and shoot down a military plane using a Stinger missile.

For President Obama, the "enemy" can no longer be limited to just Al Qaeda, as he has insisted in pre- and post- campaign interviews. When asked who the enemy is, he reflexively says "Al Qaeda." He has categorically refused to use the term "radical Islam" or "Islamic extremism." But that is exactly what we are facing—and have been facing for the past three decades.

It was radical Islam when the Hezbollah killed 241 Marines in Beirut in October 1983. It was radical Islam when the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993. It was radical Islam when hundreds of Israelis were blown to smithereens in Hamas suicide bombings. It was radical Islam that was responsible for the killing of hundreds of Bali vacationers, the bombing of Spanish trains and the suicide bombings of the London tube killing scores of Londoners in July 2005. Radical Islam has been responsible for the murder or attempted murder of tens of thousands of civilians in nearly every corner of the globe, no matter what group you call it-Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Lakshar e-Tayba and yes, Al Qaeda.

[SunkenCiv]

There are several lessons that the U.S. government and public should learn from the foiled plot by four radical Muslims, disclosed today, to bomb synagogues in New York and shoot down a military plane using a Stinger missile. For President Obama, the "enemy" can no longer be limited to just Al Qaeda, as he has insisted in pre- and post- campaign interviews. When asked who the enemy is, he reflexively says "Al Qaeda." He has categorically refused to use the term "radical Islam" or "Islamic extremism."

"Those terms are offensive to my Muslim faith."

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, now we have to be liberal. Being liberal means using politically correct terminology so we don’t offend Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

[SunkenCiv]

True, because if we offend them, they may stop likin’ us, and we would also risk creating a whole new generation of, uh, er, extrem, uh, terro-, uh, fundamenta-, uh, er...

[Dilbert San Diego]

And speaking of which, Obama claims that the terrorists of the world as oh so offended by Gitmo. He claims the existence of Gitmo has recruited new terrorists, along with our enhanced interrogations, which somehow offends people who cut off their enemies heads. But, there were numerous terror attacks in the years prior to 9/11, before Gitmo was a detention facility. Why did they hate us then? Why were terrorists recruited then, if he’s saying that Gitmo and alleged torture recruited more terrorists?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Steve could drop the “Radical” from Islam. The tenets of the believers, the hadiths of the scholars are built-in radical. In other words...a given.

Any individual enjoying the greatness of life, enjoying the power of their existence in the grand scheme of things...would have to be aghast at the BS called Islam.

[SunkenCiv]

Not only is Obama correct about that, but we’ve offended them *so much* it has actually resonated backwards through time, triggering the rise of Islam in the first place. /sarc

Obama’s a moron.