Posted on 08/11/2006 5:21:58 AM PDT by quesney
President Bush was widely criticized by Muslim leaders Thursday for saying that the breakup of an alleged plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean was a triumph in the "war against Islamic fascists."
Muslims, already resentful of the scrutiny they have been under since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said the politically charged phrase unfairly connected one of the world's great religions with Nazism and totalitarianism --- and fueled hostility against Islam and Muslims in America.
They said it also contradicted Bush's earlier statements that Islam was a religion of peace.
"There's nothing Islamic about fascism," said Edina Lekovic, communications director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles.
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The way Bush said it made it offensive, but it is true that those terrorists are Islamic fascists. However, it groups a whole religion in, kind of like calling IRA terrorists "Christian fascists".
President Bush was widely criticized by Muslim leaders Thursday for saying that the breakup of an alleged plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean was a triumph in the "war against Islamic fascists."Upset about temporarily closing a mosque for the Sock Puppet's visit, upset about some cartoons faked by a mullah to incite violence over some other cartoons the stupid mohammedans never saw, offended, angered, blah blah blah. Proper response? "We are at war with Islam, because Islam has been at war with the world since the seventh century. Don't want us to be at war, lay down your arms. Otherwise, die. Your choice."
Muslims can go pound some more sand up their rear.
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