Bush backs off 'Islamic fascists'

WorldNetDaily ^ | Sept. 1, 2006 | Not Cited

[meema]

This is disgusting.

"Mr. President, Say what you mean, and mean what you say!" How about Wahabi and Shite Fascists???

If you don't mean it, don't say it.
Your water carriers know which terms are "likely to offend"!!

It's offensive to me to see YOU being PC'd to death!

[LibLieSlayer]

I agree 100%!

LLS

[Dane]

What does that mean? Are you saying they're making this up?

Uh see reply #14, troublemaking self proclaimed "true conservative" douchebag.

[lionheart 247365]

Personally I don't CAIR how these idiots take to being reffered to as islamofacist !!!

[rodeocowboy]

This is yellow journalism. Period.

Or a yellow president and senate!

[Obie Wan]

Bush better watch what he says, after all he might get that award winning CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour angry !!!

[CyberAnt]

This is disgusting! ALL THE TERROR IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN CREATED BY THE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM - if they don't like the tag of Islamofacists - then they need to stand up and clean up their own. Since they have not been willing to do that .. they DESERVE TO BE LABELED THE SAME.

REMEMBER .. TO HARBOR A TERRORIST IS THE SAME THING AS BEING A TERRORIST. Islam better be looking more closely in the mirror - their slip is showing!

[SuziQ]

The White House insider says it's unlikely Bush will repeat the term "Islamic fascists" out of deference to Muslim groups.

Another anonymous source. Somebody trying to stir up trouble for the President with his supporters?

[JCEccles]

The article implies more than that. It quotes a White House insider as saying that Bush is unlikely to again use the word "Islamist" when describing the "facsists."

Did they make that up too?

It was very brave and non-PC for Bush to call them "Islamist fascists." It raised enormous howls of outrage from CAIR-type organizations. To my knowledge he hasn't used it since. If he doesn't use it again I believe that is pretty compelling evidence that Bush won the battle but the PC-crowd won the war on this particular "call it what it is" skirmish.

If he does, I'll understand why he did it.

[xcamel]

Part of his last speech on the WOT - to the American Legion I think. It may have been a clip because I wasn't listing that closely (to the radio).

[Vision]

The pressure groups, led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, lobbied the president to stop using the term. Washington-based CAIR fired off a letter to Bush arguing that continued use of the "hot-button" term would only harm the image of America "in the Islamic world."

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

[JCEccles]

What are you dong here on a beautiful Saturday morning. Don't you have some illegals to smuggle across the border?

[bnelson44]

Where was he when he used the term?

It wasn't at the speech on Thursday. That speech is here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831-1.html

The closest he got was: "They're successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists, and other totalitarians of the 20th century."

[Dane]

Uh "vision" there what do you have to say about pat buchanan's defense of the islamofascists in the link supplied in reply #14 of this thread.

[dirtboy]

He called them islamo-facists yesterday.

Do you mean on Thursday when he addressed the American Legion? No mention of Islamic fascism there, only one mention of Islam at all.

And the unifying feature of this movement, the link that spans sectarian divisions and local grievances, is the rigid conviction that free societies are a threat to their twisted view of Islam.

And Islam was not even mentioned in today's radio address, although Bush discussed the war on terror in detail.

So unless there is some kind of statement Bush made Friday that I couldn't see on the White House website (which would be very unusual), WND is correct in that he is no longer mentioning Islamic fascism. I'm no fan of WMD, but if you are gonna call them liars, you need to document such.

[conservativecorner]

Can you find the article from yesterday, as I would love to read it?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I think there are news pictures from the 30's of the Grand Muffti of Jerusalem (islamo-facist) meeting either with Hitler or his top deputies. If these guys have a 70 year link to some of the best known facists of the last hundred years. Post the dang picture and say:"Hey if you walk like a nazi and talk like a nazi, maybe you are a nazi?"

[bnelson44]

He didn't use that term in that speech. See:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831-1.html

He said, "They're successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists, and other totalitarians of the 20th century."

[conservativecorner]

You get the head in the sand award as early as I have ever given out this dubious award for posting nonsense.

[Dane]

What are you dong here on a beautiful Saturday morning. Don't you have some illegals to smuggle across the border?

LOL! looks like you are the one doing the heavy lifting this morning especially with pat buchanan's monica like defense of the islamofascists, per the link of reply #14 of this thread.

Have fun JC, getting yourself out of a mixture of being a pretzel and a douchebag.