Posted on 08/12/2006 12:13:39 PM PDT by sergey1973
In the days after the horror of the 11 September attacks, President George W Bush made a point of saying Muslims per se were not America's enemy.
But in the five years since then, he has taken less care to emphasise that message, US Muslim leaders are saying.
They are upset about his use of terms like "Islamic fascists", which he used this week both for Hezbollah and the suspected bomb plotters held in the UK.
"It offends the vast majority of moderate Muslims," Ahmed Younis said.
"The use of the term casts a shadow upon Islam and bolsters the argument that there is a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West," Mr Younis, the national director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (Mpac), told the BBC.
He said it was wrong to link the actions of violent Muslims to their religion.
"There is nothing Islamic about their fascism. The Prophet [Muhammad] and the Koran clearly articulate that this type of activity is outside of bounds for Muslims."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I know it was a rhetorical question, but don't hold your breath waiting for an answer.
Fascists should be insulted to have their name coupled with islam.
We don't need Muslims in this country.
Here are US soldiers in the country of "Peace lovers" of Islam!
How did G.Bush dare to call these angels islamofascists?
It's blasphemy!!! (sarcasm)
"It offends the vast majority of moderate Muslims," Ahmed Younis said.
YEAH IT OFFENDS BOTH OF THEM
"The use of the term casts a shadow upon Islam and bolsters the argument that there is a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West."
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE JIHAD, AHMED
He said it was wrong to link the actions of violent Muslims to their religion.
"There is nothing Islamic about their fascism. The Prophet [Muhammad] and the Koran clearly articulate that this type of activity is outside of bounds for Muslims."
UNLESS THE TARGETS ARE NON-MUSLIMS OR APOSTATES ... IT'S IN THE KORAN. QUIT LYING. WE'RE CATCHING ON.
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Do I even need a sarc tag?
Yeah - IslamoCommies is the correct term for these fools.
I tend to agree with you. Why do they rely on their clerics, CAIR, and the Muslim Brotherhood to be their mouth pieces? Are they incapable of speaking for themselves?
Islam is the religion of PIECES bump.
Not to mention that such dissembling is straight out of the Mooselimb playbook for trying to disorient the infidel.
Headline "Bush's language angers US Muslims"
Headline "Muslims apologists for terror angers non-Muslim citizens"
Good for President Bush.
As far as I am concerned any time and in any way we can tick of the Muslims is fine with me. It means we had a good day. They can take their whine to CAIR and cry on their terrorist loving shoulders.
Having a Muslim anger at us is a compliment just like it is to have a leftie made at us. Both are a waste of good air.
You nailed it.
Merely a clash? How about all out war?
Bush's description is right on target!If there is a shadow cast over muslims they did it to themselves.I have seen nothing that they have done to correct the situation.There is not one instance where they have even shown patriotism for America.
Oh, boo f'n hoo.
After this plan of the Islamofacists to murder innocent men, women and children on airplanes was, praise God, caught in time by the Brits, I have absolutely no patience for people of the Muslim religion, peaceful or otherwise. No patience for the violent ones, obviously. But now, no patience for the rest of them.
The violent ones are able to keep murdering largely because of the silence of the rest. Were the majority of Muslims to speak out loudly and publicly with one voice on the television, in the Mosques, and to their neighbors and their own, the voices would shame the violent ones.
Until they start doing more of this, I don't plan to reach out my hand in peace to any of them. It's time WE shame the silent Muslim majority.
Is that Oobi?
US Muslims need to spend less time being angry and more time hunting down the radicals in their midst.
All the usual spokesmen were so quick to issue press releases about their feelings of being offended by words, that we now have proof of how fast they Could arrange press releases denouncing people who murder while praying to Allah, if they were so inclined.
That they do not denounce people who murder in the name of Allah should be pointed out to these spokesmen as proof that they support those activities.
We need to tell them that we are offended when people who are using rusty butcher knives, and videotaping their actions, are calling out the name of Allah as they saw off heads, or as they blow up people gathered for weddings and funerals.
Apparently "being offended" count with these spokesmen.
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