Posted on 08/10/2006 1:55:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
US Muslims bristle at Bush term "Islamic fascists" Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:07 PM ET
By Amanda Beck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.
U.S. officials have said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
"We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counter-productive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.
"We ought to take advantage of these incidents to make sure that we do not start a religious war against Islam and Muslims," he told a news conference in Washington.
"We urge him (Bush) and we urge other public officials to restrain themselves."
Awad said U.S. officials should take the lead from their British counterparts who had steered clear of using what he considered inflammatory terms when they announced the arrest of more than 20 suspects in the reported plot.
Hours after the news broke, Bush said it was "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation."
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I prefer "Islamonazis" myself. My, aren't they sensitive!
2001/12/30 Nigeria Vwang 5 0 Armed Muslims attack Christian community, kill five and destroy much of the town.
2002/11/22 Nigeria Kaduna 105 521 Muslim mob burns Christian churches and rampages through the streets stabbing, bludgeoning and burning one hundred and five people to death. Death toll will climb.
2002/12/12 Nigeria Rim 13 0 Muslim nomads attack Christian village and kill thirteen people including a clergyman and his family.
2002/2/27 Nigeria Ilorin 3 0 Eid-el-Kabir celebrants kill three Christians.
2002/3/7 Nigeria Enugu 12 0 Muslim gunmen storm a Christian prayer meeting attempting to kill the leader. Twelve are killed, an unknown number injured.
2003/3/18 Nigeria Kadarko 22 44 Armed Muslims shouting "we are going to finish off the infidels" attack a Christian village and kill at least 22 villagers. More than forty-four others were injured or missing.
2003/4/22 Nigeria Kano 7 0 Muslims set fire to a house, killing a Christian pastor and six other members of his family, including his wife and three children.
2003/4/4 Nigeria Fobur 1 4 Armed Muslims attack a village, kill a woman and burn down the houses of Christians.
2003/6/8 Nigeria Numan 1 0 Female Christian pastor stabbed to death by a radical Muslim as she was returning home from work (2003).
2004/11/23 Nigeria Jigawa 2 10 Muslim extremists attack a group of Christian evangelists. Two people are beaten to death and at least ten others injured.
2004/12/8 Nigeria Bauchi 1 0 Muslim students at an African university abduct and kill a Christian student.
2004/2/19 Nigeria Jos 4 0 Muslim gunmen ambush a police vehicle and kill the four passengers.
2004/2/25 Nigeria Yelwa 49 0 Forty-nine members of a farming community are slaughtered by Muslim Fulanis after taking refuge in a local church. Most of the Christians were brutally hacked to death. The number of injured is unknown.
2004/4/11 Nigeria Rwang Doka and Jenkur 3 0 Muslim militia attacks two Christian villages and kills three people, in addition to burning homes.
2004/5/11 Nigeria Kano 11 0 At least eleven Christians are burned to death by a Muslim mob that also sets two churches on fire.
2004/5/12 Nigeria Kano 30 44 Muslim rampage against Christians continues in Kano with at least another thirty people losing their lives.
2004/5/18 Nigeria Gidan Sabo 18 0 Muslim Nigerians kill eighteen Christian villagers - mostly farmers, women and children.
2004/5/19 Nigeria Sabo Gida 10 0 Ten Christian villagers are killed by armed Muslims. An unknown number are injured by the attackers, who also burned churches and houses.
2004/5/19 Nigeria Bakin Ciyawa 24 0 Jihadists kill twenty-four Christian villagers.
2004/5/21 Nigeria Saminaka 7 0 In the latest of a series of attacks on Christian villagers, seven more are killed by Nigerian Jihadists as they sought refuge in their homes.
2004/5/21 Nigeria Jiram 15 0 Fifteen Christian villagers are massacred by Jihadists.
2004/5/26 Nigeria Wase 3 6 Fulani militia attacks a government building, killing three workers and injuring at least six. They also burned houses.
2004/5/28 Nigeria Langtang 3 0 Assault by armed Muslims leaves three Christians dead and several hundred homeless after their village is burned.
2004/9/20 Nigeria Bama 10 0 Armed Nigerian militants, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' invade two towns and kill ten people, including seven civilians.
2005/1/27 Nigeria Numan 1 0 A Christian woman is shot to death by Muslim troops in the troubled African province.
2005/2/4 Nigeria Demsa 36 0 Militant Muslims attack a Christian village in Nigeria, killing at least three dozen and displacing some three thousand others.
2005/3/17 Nigeria Benue 1 0 Two Muslim men rape a Christian girl and then poison her.
2005/4/10 Nigeria Benue 14 4 Fourteen Christians are killed in an attack on their villages by Muslim militants in the large African nation.
2005/5/27 Nigeria Sokoto 1 14 Nigerian Sunnis attack a Shia political office, killing one and injuring fourteen.
ISLAMIC FASCISTS.
Sounds like a rock group!
2003/10/26 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 Muslim separatists kill a policeman and two defense volunteers, two days before a larger attack was planned.
2004/1/22 Thailand Narathiwat 2 1 Two Buddhist monks are hacked to death while begging for food in a Muslim neighborhood. Another is seriously injured in the machete attack.
2004/1/4 Thailand Narathiwat 4 0 Muslim extremists raid a government armory and then set fire to 18 secular schools in a rampage that leaves at least four soldiers dead and an unknown number injured.
2004/1/5 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two policemen are killed while trying to defuse a bomb on a parked motorcycle.
2004/10/12 Thailand Pattani 2 9 Muslim gunmen storm a police station with firearms and grenades. An officer and a civilian are killed.
2004/10/28 Thailand Sungai Kolok 2 15 Local Muslims gun down a Buddhist orchard owner and bomb a bar. The bomb kills one person and injures fifteen.
2004/10/31 Thailand Narathiwat 5 0 Muslim separatists kill a Buddhist construction worker, a police officer, two agricultural workers, and one other civilian.
2004/10/8 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslims kill a 38-year old Buddhist soldier with an assault rifle as he is walking home.
2004/10/9 Thailand Pattani 1 0 In another motorcycle attack, Muslims shoot a 23-year old Buddhist student to death.
2004/11/12 Thailand Narathiwat 1 14 A Buddhist teacher is gunned down by Islamic militants. They also plant a bomb in a restaurant, which injures fourteen.
2004/11/13 Thailand Tharnto 1 6 Militant Muslims explode a bomb in the middle of a marketplace, killing one person instantly and leaving at least six others critically injured.
2004/11/13 Thailand Yala 2 0 Muslims gun down two civilians - one in his home and another who happened on the attack.
2004/11/2 Thailand Mamong 1 0 Muslim agitators murder a 58-year-old Buddhist village chief.
2004/11/30 Thailand Yala 1 2 Two separate shooting attacks by Muslim missionaries from the back of a motorcycle leave a teacher dead and two other civilians injured.
2004/11/4 Thailand Pattani 9 2 Muslim terrorists kill nine Buddhists over a 24-hour period in separate attacks. At least one monk survived with injuries, as well as a young boy.
2004/11/6 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two Buddhists, one a grocery store owner, are gunned down by militant Muslims.
2004/11/9 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Thai Muslims cut the head off of a 60-year-old Buddhist plantation worker.
2004/12/14 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Buddhist teacher is gunned down by two Muslims in a motorcycle attack.
2004/12/15 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two more Buddhist civilians, both in their 50's, are shot to death by Muslim extremists. One was selling ice-cream from his vending bike at the time.
2004/12/24 Thailand Narathiwat 2 7 Islamic separatists plant a bomb on a motorcycle, outside a bank, and kill two people, injuring at least seven.
2004/12/26 Thailand Chana 3 1 Three Thai policemen are killed by Muslims in a motorcycle terror attack as they are passing by.
2004/2/10 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Buddhist official killed by Muslim gunmen.
2004/2/14 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Muslim gunmen on a motorcycle kill two workers as they are on their way to a job site.
2004/2/4 Thailand Yarang 1 0 Government employee is slashed to death in a machete attack similar to the manner in which three Buddhist monks were killed last month.
2004/3/1 Thailand Mayoh 1 0 Muslim separatists shoot a policeman to death as he is driving to work.
2004/3/21 Thailand Pattani 3 0 A Buddhist policeman is hacked to death by militant Muslims. One other policeman and a village chief are shot to death in separate attacks within a 24-hour span.
2004/3/27 Thailand Sunghai Kolok 0 28 Twenty-eight people are injured when a bomb hidden on a motorcycle explodes outside a karaoke bar.
2004/4/10 Thailand Had Yai 1 35 Bomb planted by Muslim separatists at a railway station kills a 7-year-old boy and injures thirty-five others.
2004/4/18 Thailand Sungai Padi 1 0 Railway worker shot and killed by Muslim separatists while he was on his way to work.
2004/4/22 Thailand Rayang 3 0 Muslim separatists set fire to fifty government buildings, then kill two firefighters trying to put out the blazes. The next day they shoot an army officer dead in his driveway while he was washing his car.
2004/4/28 Thailand Yala 5 0 Thai Muslims storm 15 government buildings in a coordinated attack and kill at least five. An unknown number are injured.
2004/5/17 Thailand Narathiwat 1 3 Muslims bomb three Buddhist temples on Sunday, injuring two. The next day they shoot a police officer in the head, as he is riding to work.
2004/5/29 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim radicals kidnap a Buddhist civilian and decapitate him. They leave the body with a note attached, warning other Buddhists of the same fate.
2004/6/16 Thailand Narathiwat 3 7 Muslim separatists kill an 18-year-old college student, a school janitor and a police officer in a drive-by shooting attacks. They also bomb a police check-point, injuring five.
2004/6/19 Thailand Pattani 1 4 Militant Muslims spray a police car with an AK-47, killing the driver. The same group injures four others with a bomb.
2004/6/24 Thailand Cho Airong 1 2 Muslim separatists attack an army base, killing one Thai soldier and injuring two others.
2004/6/27 Thailand Narathiwat 1 6 Muslim group plants a bomb under a soccer field to kill off-duty policemen, who were inaugurating a youth league.
2004/6/29 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim terrorists on motorcycles shoot a Buddhist policeman to death as he is driving to work.
2004/6/7 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim gunmen shoot a Buddhist teacher to death on the street.
2004/7/1 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Muslim separatists kill a police informer and, in a separate attack, shoot a food vendor several times in the back.
2004/7/11 Thailand Bangkok 2 1 Islamic separatists kill two more civilians in southern Thailand.
2004/7/14 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim motorcycle attack kills a police officer as he is driving to work. Another is injured.
2004/7/31 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 Muslim gunmen on motorcycles shoot a 39-year-old woman four times in the chest. In a separate attack, a bomb hidden under a street bench, injures five.
2004/8/25 Thailand Narathiwat 1 30 Muslim separatists bomb a food market, killing one and injuring at least thirty others.
2004/9/17 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist judge is shot to death by Muslim gunmen after dropping his children off at school.
2004/9/26 Thailand Yala 1 9 Islamic separatists kill the owner of a fruit orchard. Elsewhere, a grenade attack leaves nine injured.
2004/9/27 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Muslims use motorbikes to stage two shooting attacks that leave a government official and one police officer dead.
2005/1/16 Thailand Yala 1 30 Muslims plant a bomb in a Thai restaurant, killing the owner and injuring thirty others.
2005/1/18 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 At least three killed as militant Muslims go on a wild shooting and arson spree.
2005/1/4 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims murder a Thai village official from the back of a motorcycle as he is driving to work.
2005/2/10 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Thai Islamists set off a bomb in a market stall, killing one villager and injuring another.
2005/2/11 Thailand Yala 2 24 Thai Muslims shoot a buddhist shopkeeper to death, then trigger a bomb that kills another person and injures two dozen.
2005/2/14 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim separatists shoot a 48-year-old man off of a motorcycle, injuring his wife as well.
2005/2/18 Thailand Sungai Kolok 6 44 Muslim separatists kill six people near a hotel hosting a wedding reception with a powerful car bomb.
2005/2/24 Thailand Yala 7 0 Muslim terrorists kill seven people over a two day stretch that includes a Buddhist grocery store owner and a village chief.
2005/3/15 Thailand Yala 1 3 A policeman is killed and three other people injured when Muslim separatists set off a bomb at a railway station.
2005/3/19 Thailand Narathiwat 2 2 Three separate shooting attacks by Islamic militants leave at least two villagers dead, including a Buddhist man shot in the back of the head while sitting in his tea shop.
2005/3/2 Thailand Pattani 3 1 Muslim terrorists murder three civilians in separate random shooting attacks.
2005/3/20 Thailand Yala 1 13 One civilian is killed, and thirteen other people injured by two bombs placed by Islamic separatists, one near a river pavilion.
2005/3/21 Thailand Songkhla 1 3 Islamic separatists open fire on a restaurant, killing one customer and injuring three others.
2005/3/24 Thailand Yala 0 4 Four people, including an elderly Buddhist monk are injured by a bomb that Islamic militants trigger with a cell phone.
2005/3/27 Thailand Narathiwat 0 15 Bombing and shooting attack on a train by Muslim separatists results in more than a dozen casualties.
2005/3/6 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Gema'ah Islamiyah terrorists, disguised as fully-veiled Muslim women open fire on a police checkpoint, killing two Thai officers.
2005/3/6 Thailand Narathiwat's 2 0 Two young civilians are gunned down by Islamic militants in a motorcycle attack.
2005/3/7 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Three people, including two Bhuddists and a businesswoman are murdered in three separate attacks by Muslim terrorists.
2005/4/24 Thailand Narathiwat 2 3 Militant Muslims kill two Thai policemen with a remote-controled bomb that injures three civilians as well.
2005/4/3 Thailand Songkhla 2 70 Islamic militants set off three bombs, killing two and injuring at least seventy. The fatalities were from the bomb set at the airport. The other two bombs were at a hotel and a department store.
2005/5/15 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 After burning down in elementary school in Yala, Muslim extremists bomb a government vehicle, killing one Thai and injuring five others.
2005/6/10 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two separate shooting attacks by Muslim militants leave two, including a Buddhist, dead.
2005/6/11 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims murder a 49-year-old Buddhist construction worker on his way to work.
2005/6/13 Thailand Narathiwat 1 3 Islamic radicals plant a bomb in a garbage truck, killing one of the workers and injuring several more.
2005/6/13 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Two Buddhist twin brothers are shot by Islamic terrorists as they are riding home from school. One dies.
2005/6/16 Thailand Narathiwat 2 3 Three separate attacks in the same Thai province by militant Muslims leave two dead and three injured.
2005/6/21 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Islamic militants invade a home and shoot three young volunteer teacher to death.
2005/6/22 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslim extremists behead a 34-year-old cloth vendor. The head is found 2km away.
2005/6/22 Thailand Narathiwat 0 7 A bomb set off by Muslim extremists injures seven, including two monks and three elderly people.
2005/6/24 Thailand Yala 2 0 A man and his wife stop to remove a tree branch from the road, when they are attacked by militant Muslims, who then cut off their heads.
2005/6/28 Thailand Pattani 2 0 A janitor and a poultry trader are murdered in separate attacks by Islamic militants on motorcycles.
2005/6/28 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamic militants shoot a government worker to death as he is walking along the side of the road.
2005/6/6 Thailand Bangkok 1 0 A 59-year-old Buddhist plantation worker is captured and beheaded by militant Muslims.
2005/6/9 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist teenager is shot in the head by Muslim separatists.
2005/7/14 Thailand Yala 2 21 Islamic militants set off four bombs in restaraunts and other business areas, killing at least two people.
2005/7/15 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two female teachers are gunned down by Muslims on motorcycles as they are walking home.
2005/7/16 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Muslim separatists attack a school, killing two security guards.
2005/7/18 Thailand Yala 3 1 In three separate attacks, Muslims behead a farmer and shoot at least two other people to death, including a school principal.
2005/7/23 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic militants shoot a 58-year-old village leader twice in the head as he is riding with his wife.
2005/7/29 Thailand Pattani 1 3 A village leader is gunned down and three others suffer injuries in a separate attack in Narathiwat.
2005/7/5 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 44-year-old security force member is abducted and beheaded by Islamists.
2005/7/6 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims on motorcycles shoot a 52-year-old in the neck and hand as he is riding to market.
2005/8/13 Thailand Pattani 0 2 A man and his 13-year-old son are critically wounded by Muslim gunmen.
2005/8/14 Thailand Narathiwat 2 2 In three separate attacks, Muslim gumen shoot two Buddhist men at point-blank range as they are drinking tea. They also shoot a 40-year-old woman by the side of the road and hack another woman with a machete while she is working her garden.
2005/8/18 Thailand Narathiwat 2 2 A teacher and a policeman are shot dead by Muslim militants in separate attacks.
2005/8/21 Thailand Pattani 8 15 Islamic separatists kill eight people, mostly civilians, in five separate attacks across the southern Thai provinces using bombs and bullets.
OK, I'll use the term Islaminazis if they don't like the other term.
"Long lines and delays. Shoes off. No drinks for long flights. Patdowns. Extra wanding. No carry on luggage. No food. Shouting at us by TSA. No laptop use for business. Must have valuables now checked. Your loss of FREEDOM and COMFORT. --All Courtesy of Islamo Fascists."
Even, how about CAIR sponsor "anti-hizbollah" marches and vigils?
For your information Awad, any sophomore who has studied in a college course on modern US history would be able to independaently conclude that jihadist Muslims fit the fascist stereotypes in ALL aspects of political, social, economic, and philosphical tests.
I ahve been waiting for years to hear the wrod Islamic fascism from opur president.
It is historically accurate, and the liberal appeasement of you fascists track a course parallel to the liberal.sof 1938 who thought their moral superiority and appeasement could establish a world Utopia. All the liberals bought with their philosophy was Six million dead Jews, 300 thousand American deaths of soldiers and a reconstruction bill we forgave.
Well, boo hoo. When they stop having pro-Hezbollah rallies, stop sheltering criminals, start supporting the US wholeheartedly and without fingers crossed behind their backs, maybe, maybe we can take seriously their concern. Right now, these are Islamic men with fascist, terroristic ideas, claiming to act in the name of their religion, armed with money and technology, calling us the great satan and endeavoring to bring death to our doors. What should we call them? Teddy Bears?
"We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counter-productive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.
Okay, how about this:
More than a dozen Islamic fundementalists acting true to the Q'uran conspired to commit a mass-murder terror plot as a way to demonstrate their faith in Islam.
It goes on and on. It is, after all, the religion of "peace".
LOL
Oh, please--the President is only calling a spade, a spade.
Say WHAT?
Hey! I resemble that remark!
dung.
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