[Andy from Beaverton]

First we couldn't say the "N" word because we weren't black. Now we can't say the "J" word because we aren't Muslim. I say now we make F^@K Y@^ a white person's word.

[johnnyBbad]

From now on no one can use the word "whitey" except whites :)

[wideawake]

Pyle should tell him: "It's a free country and I can say what I want. What are you going to do, behead me?"

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Okay. You stop using the "C" word.

[skimbell]

... a controversy over a pesticide use reporting program perpetuates negative stereotypes about Muslims.

this controversy isn't what is causing the negative stereotypes about mooslims. It's when they fly hijacked airplanes into our buildings that I start thinking negative.

[sgtbono2002]

We need to pick up all who belong to CAIR and these Mooslims who are offended at the drop of a hat and ship them back to where they came from where they wont be so offended.

[Sunshine Sister]

Boy howdy does that free speech thing turn people on their heads. If you don't like the use of words with meaning, go back to where ever it is that you came from and conform to their laws!

[Montaignes Cat]

All your English language are belong to us.

[DoctorMichael]

To: Muzlimb "Leader

STFU

Have a great day

[Publius6961]

Shahriar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton, said use of the term in an e-mail dealing with a controversy over a pesticide use reporting program perpetuates negative stereotypes about Muslims.

Muslims perpetuate the negative stereotype of muslims.

So I say let's get rid of them all.

Works for me!

[AliVeritas]

If you say jihad, I guess you have to kill them...then it would be ok.

[layman]

Muslims would be offended by how the word is used

Muslims are offended by EVERYTHING. It's like dealing with a bunch of paranoid children. Lighten up or LEAVE!

[joebuck]

This is just a subtle way of shouting someone down by calling them a racist. I seriously doubt this woman was offended, she just wants to cry wolf. Even if she was offended, too bad. Whenever someone takes offense where none was obviously intended it's their problem not the speakers.

[Casekirchen]

"Shahriar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton, said use of the term in an e-mail dealing with a controversy over a pesticide use reporting program perpetuates negative stereotypes about Muslims. The term 'jihad' here was used intentionally to aggravate the situation, Ahmed sai

--- Is there something in the koran that forbids use of pesticides? Or about reporting / not reporting their use?

Sorry, I don't see the problem then.

After all, haven't we in the West been told for the past several years that Jihad doesn't really mean rape, murder & pillage it simply means struggle for improvement?

Sounds to me like the pesticide industry is struggling for improvement & is using the (revised) definition.

Or is Amed using the (original) definition and saying that the pesticide industry is using code to encourage the murder of Republicans? If so, is he upset over encouragement of murder, or just filing a jurisdictional grievance since he wants first dibs?

[Lil'freeper]

Jihad for me, but not for thee.

[Between the Lines]

ji-had

Pronunciation: ( ji-häd'), [key]
-n.
1. a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.
2. any vigorous, emotional crusade for an idea or principle.

Jihad is in the English dictionary. Who put it there? Muslims. Who defined it? Muslims.

As to the negative stereotyping of Muslims. Stereotyping is the scientific process of observation and deduction. If we observe that most trees have leaves, then we stereotype trees as having leaves. This does not mean that all trees have leaves, but that most do. Stereotypes are based on fact through observation and reason.

So if there are negative stereotypes of Muslims, they have no one to blame but their fellow Muslims.

Are there any positive stereotypes of Muslims?