Posted on 08/24/2005 4:52:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PLAINFIELD, Ind. - A leading U.S. Muslim group called on President Bush Wednesday to show his support for mainstream Islam in this country and worldwide by meeting with the group next week in Chicago.
Bush could make a powerful statement to the world's 1.2 billion Muslims by appearing at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, just as he showed his support for adherents of the religion when he visited a Washington mosque a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Sayyid Syeed, the group's secretary general.
ISNA, an umbrella organization of largely immigrant Muslim organizations and mosques in the United States and Canada, will attract tens of thousands of Muslims to Chicago for its annual meeting over Labor Day weekend.
Syeed told The Associated Press in an interview that ISNA, based outside Indianapolis, has invited Bush to speak each year since he became president.
"His coming to Chicago would send a powerful message to the Muslim world and the world at large that America's fight is not against Islam, it is not against Muslims, it is against extremism and terrorism," Syeed said.
Next week's meeting follows a recent fatwa, or religious edict, by U.S. Muslim scholars condemning terrorism, and the convention will include other steps to check the spread of Muslim extremism and terrorism in this country, Syeed said.
The Associated Press left a message with the White House press office Wednesday afternoon seeking reaction to Syeed's comments.
The Bush administration will be represented at the ISNA meeting by Karen Hughes, a Bush confidante who recently was confirmed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. Her tasks include improving the U.S. image in Muslim countries.
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tough call. I say find an already established commitment.
Maybe mainstream Islam in the U.S. should support President Bush.
Eh?
I agree. Special interest groups need to show support for Bush, er, respect for Bush. Bush doesn't bow to the NAACP either.
"..it is against extremism and terrorism,"
It is against extremism and terrorist MUSLIMS.
We don't have to pander or appease them. But we're in Iraq to build a new democracy of muslims, not to eliminate the population.
President Bush has never said the fight is against Islam. It's the islamics who have said it is. Perhaps they know something the president doesn't know.
As soon as the so-called mainstream Muslims start turning in the "muslim Death Merchants."
.... hmmmmm.....
Anyone not behind the USA, anyone that wants Sharia, anyone that wants the world muslim Caliphate...there's the door, get the F out.
Why is the U.S. lagging behind the Aussies and the U.K.
Aren't we the cowboys? Speak the truth or stand down.
I for one would rather ride my bicycle 40 miles a day than kiss the fanny of King Abdullah.
So what is it Mr. President...shall we hunker down or shall we pucker up?
As long as they stand by the koran and muhammad they speak with forked tongue.
Sura 9:5 of the “Koran,” “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”
Their Gawd is nuts, his prophet is nuts, his followers aka mooslimes are nuts. You want to co-exist with nujobs that are COMMANDED to kill us? Do you live in an insane asylum? Why would you want to?
Kill A Commie For Mommie
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I'd go. I have a whole list of things I'd say.
The heck with that. How about President Bush showing his support for the rest of us, and issuing Executive Orders expelling Muslims, and deporting them to their places of origin. Enough of this. America is for Americans, and those who demonstrate that they wish to become Americans.
You're one of those who want to kill all muslims. Fine.
As far as I'm concerned, you're out of the discussion.
He could turn them down saying he has a previous appointment to go biking with Michael Graham.
He could turn them down saying he has a previous appointment to go biking with Michael Graham.
I think showing up would be a win-win situation for the president. He ought to go.
I am curious to see Bible quotes (New Testament) that are equally incendiary to numerous koran passages.
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