Posted on 05/16/2006 3:03:33 PM PDT by LSUfan
Reporters are 100 times more likely to associate Islam with terrorism or militancy than all other faiths combined, an article quoted a word search on news stories published in major newspapers over the past decade as concluding.
Such lopsided portrayal is indicative of deep-seated misunderstandings about Islam, and sometimes just plain prejudice, said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in an article on Monday. Surely, all terrorists are not Muslim. Neither are all Muslims terrorists.
The European Union had noticed resentment among Muslims to the objectionable juxtaposition of Islam and terrorism, and was distributing new guidelines to its 25 members that recommended using non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation, Ahmed said in his article titled A sensible way to describe terrorists. EU officials say that the guidelines, which are not legally binding, would ask European governments to shun the phrase Islamic terrorism in favour of terrorists who abusively invoke Islam, Ahmed said. Other terms being considered by the review include Islamist, fundamentalist and jihad, he said. He praised this first of its kind effort to separate terrorism from its perceived roots.
Associating the criminal enterprise of terrorism with the faith of 1.4 billion Muslims, 99.99 percent of whom will never come near any act of terrorism, much less use Islam as a justification for their crimes, is just plain wrong, he said. Ahmed said the 9/11 attacks had brought home the horrors of a new form of suicidal terrorism. More and more scholarly writings are delving deeper into this issue and offering us new insights, he said. The pioneering instigators and the largest purveyors of suicide terrorism are the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, a Marxist-Leninist group whose members are overwhelmingly Hindu.
Quoting Robert Papes book Dying to Win, Ahmed writes: From Lebanon to Israel to Sri Lanka to Kashmir to Chechnya, the sponsors of every campaign have been terrorist groups trying to establish or maintain political self-determination by compelling a democratic power to withdraw from a territory they claim, Ahmed quotes Pape as saying. He said that occupation is the primary motivator and religion, at best, is an aggravating factor. Considering this, the Iraq war has only amplified the problem, he said.
Falsely associating Islam with terrorism weakens the efficacy of these efforts by creating the impression that the global war on terror is merely a euphemism for a war on Islam, Ahmed said. Terrorism is stateless and yet trans-national. ... it will never be defeated through force alone. It will have to be fought ideologically by attempting to win the hearts and minds of those vulnerable to terrorist manipulations, Ahmed said.
Another thing always ignored by apologists for Islam is that trans-national terrorism is very close to 100% Islam-inspired. The non-Islamic groups that are cited for being major terror networks in recent years are ALL concentrated very tightly within their own societies (Tamil Tigers, ETA in Spain, IRA when it was still blowing people up in the UK, and terrorist rebels in Columbia). They are bad for the locales they target, but the vast vast majority of the world's citizens are not targets of those groups. That's not to make light of the horrors that occur within those 4 countries, but only ISLAMIC terrorism is widely trans-national and truly a global threat. Only ISLAMIC terrorism is a threat to just about anyone in the world, even many Muslims. None of us have to worry for a second about being harmed by the Tamil Tigers, ETA, IRA, or FARC unless we choose to go into the specific areas they are known to target. OTOH, any of us could be slaughtered by Islamo-fascist terrorists at any time, anywhere in the world. The threat of ISLAMIC terrorists is uniquely widespread and virulent, even if our individual statistical chances of being blown up are rather tiny (unless we are in Iraq, etc.).
Whining Muslim alert.
They are off by a few orders of magnitude.
Gee, I wonder why anyone would associate Islam with terrorist with all those Catholic suicide bombers blowing everyone up.
As Samuel Huntington said, "Islam has bloody borders."
This is a great analysis of the Islamic threat:
http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_05.htm
(was a response to something he wrote earlier, but read the whole thing - a most sobering analysis. I went there and had to read the entire thing. Look at the surveys about opinion about suicide in the name of defending Islam, and know why we are standing on the brink of an abyss....)
this article was linked to in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632885/posts)
I'm shocked, mind you, shocked!
Excellent point.
If they say they are going to obliterate Israel and replace our constitution with the quaran, then that is exactly what they plan to do.
They keep telling us this, yet we continue to brush it off and laugh.
They have infiltrated us, in fact the world. Their procedures work. They move to a country, raise families, acquire jobs in all sectors, live in all parts of the target country. They start to make demands based on their their religious beliefs (the quaran). Nativity scenes are offensive, require rooms and time for prayer, imposing their beliefs at the expense of others. Softening the target so to speak. By leveraging political ground gained at every turn. Subjugation in any means,some subtle, some not so subtle. Each appeasement is a victory for them.When their population reaches a critical mass they strike. They plan to do this with in our lifetimes.France may well already be lost. There is no such thing as a peaceful islamist, it simply means they have not been activated.
We must not continue to dismiss them in apathetic arrogance.
We should be prepared to bare arms.
Will it take an American Hiroshima to awaken the majority, to mobilize our masses against the Islamic quest of world domination?
Islam must be crushed. Islam must not be recognized as a religion any more than Nazism was. All Mosques should be declared delinquent of taxes owed retroactive from the day they were built. ANY gathering of Islamics should be PROSECUTED as CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MASS MURDER, found guilty and deported. Country by country, state by state, town by town, foot by foot, inch by inch, the Islamic cancer must be eradicated.
ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE:
Dear Representative:
As a registered voter and tax paying legal resident of the United States of America we urge you to provide us with your utmost commitment to providing the citizens of our nation protection of our rights, life, liberties, property, and our hallowed Constitution.
We are under attack by an ideology that demands our demise. We will not stand quiet in the eve of our destruction. And we certainly will not tolerate our elected representative to lead us to the slaughter.
We urge you to introduce a referendum on whether Islam is a religion, or an ideology.
The advantages and protections of tax-exempt status afforded to a religion should not be extended to an ideology determined to replace our Constitution with the Koran.
In spite of what the media reports, the American public is well aware that that the war on terrorism is in reality, our defensive efforts against the Islamic offensive. We are not being provided with the defense of both our rights and the sanctity of our Constitution as long as we allow the enemy to operate freely with in our borders.
Americans are concerned and are in extreme jeopardy and demand you perform your duties as both an American and elected representative.
In Earnest,
Indeed! My first sentiment as well. ; )
Or not...
There is no question in my mind whatsoever that, absent islam, terrorism and barbarism in the world would be reduced 99.9%
I would be thrilled to have that theory checked out.
Of course, nutcases have been with us throughout history, but rarely in wholesale lots, like 1.6 billion at a time... and organized...
I got this message today, somewhat self-edited albeit out of ignorance...
"SHUT UP ASS WHOLE YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT US -ARABS-SO STFU"
But here's the mystery. It was in response to a thread I don't remember reading. Does anyone have a link to it?
"Re: Schools asked to ban book; Parent of seventh-grader says it promotes hatred toward Arabs"
Sounds fascinating.
Why is that so unlikely?
It represent just 0.88% of all muslims. Hell, there are that many criminally insane in most populations!
My educated guess is that it's closer to 20%.
Now, that is a scary number...
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