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Chertoff's 'Islam PC' rankles fed officials
WorldNetDaily.com ^
| February 10, 2007
Posted on 02/12/2007 7:47:28 PM PST by navyguy
Citing recent internal memos, Department of Homeland Security employees complain their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror operations with pro-Islamic political correctness.
They say headquarters has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a "religion of peace."
"It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam," said one official who wished to go unnamed.
...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also has toned down her war rhetoric.
Last month she referred to the terrorist group Hamas as a "resistance movement," even though the group has been on her department's official terror blacklist for a dozen years.
...
"We are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan because the political leaders in both parties and their politically correct acolytes in the media, the academy and the general officer corps refuse to square with the American people about the enemy's motivation," said Michael F. Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chertoff; magdyelamir
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The US Gummint... givin' it to ya straight...
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:47:30 PM PST
by
navyguy
To: navyguy
Oh fer goodness sake! Our government needs to grow a pair.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:49:14 PM PST
by
The Blitherer
(Duncan Hunter for President '08!)
To: navyguy
Political correctness will be the death of us.... look no further than Europe.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:49:46 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
To: volunbeer
If PC doesn't get us, Islam will.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:51:04 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: navyguy
They say headquarters has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a "religion of peace." "It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam," said one official who wished to go unnamed. DHS Headquarters is merely echoing the President's exact words.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:51:29 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: volunbeer
Sometimes I wonder if our government is doing this by design. We should have stopped this PC crap buttcold a long time ago.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:52:16 PM PST
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: rockinqsranch
If PC doesn't get us, Islam will. Or another way of putting it: If PC gets us, Islam will.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:52:21 PM PST
by
The Blitherer
(Duncan Hunter for President '08!)
To: navyguy
"We are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan because the political leaders in both parties and their politically correct acolytes in the media, the academy and the general officer corps refuse to square with the American people about the enemy's motivation," said Michael F. Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit. Since we are losing in neither locale this and WND uses Scheuer again, I doubt the veracity of the entire article.
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posted on
02/12/2007 7:58:41 PM PST
by
pissant
To: NY Attitude
It's not just the government. PC dominates our entire society from journalism/academics, politics, average workplace, all they way down to little league sports.
It's a sickness that is ingrained in all of us.
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:03:07 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
To: navyguy
How lower can the Bush Administration go, what's next?
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:03:33 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: Mr. Mojo
DHS Headquarters is merely echoing the President's exact words.My thoughts too. This crapola starts at the top.
To: navyguy
Maybe those Homeland Security memos should be asking Michael Chertoff who Dr. Magdy Elamir is.
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:10:33 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: volunbeer
Why is this country so suicidal? Could someone please explain the boomer menality to me? This seems to be the main source of the disease.
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:13:30 PM PST
by
johnny33
To: johnny33
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:14:58 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
To: NY Attitude
Just nip it! Nip it in the bud. ;-)
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:15:55 PM PST
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
To: navyguy
I give up. The government has become a bunch of deaf, dumb and blind weaklings, from the top down.
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:17:05 PM PST
by
Frwy
(Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
To: The Blitherer; volunbeer; rockinqsranch; NY Attitude; DTogo
Forgive me for asking you all what may be a stupid question, but if Islam itself is the enemy, what on earth is the US doing in Iraq?
It seems to me, you can believe as some of us do, in spreading democracy and human rights and believe that Iraqis are worth fighting for... or you don't.
And if you don't, what exactly do you think the US' objectives in Iraq should be? Killing all the Muslims?
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:19:04 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Hard headed brainwashed trained monkey)
To: navyguy
Before long the words Nazi, fascist and imperialist will
disappear from public school textbook chapters on WWII.
This is so pathetic....JJ61
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:22:42 PM PST
by
JerseyJohn61
(Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
To: navyguy
Nothing doing, folks, Islam has got us by the
Islam is the enemy? Sure it is! Ready to pay $10 per gallon? Ready for a recession, depression? Back to colonialism (as Ann Coulter once suggested in so many words) is the only way to deal with the barbarians. Look what they've done to Africa in the past 50 years since the end of colonialism. The West's retreat will be its demise. PC is nothing but a natural extension of it.
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:26:04 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Alter Kaker
Forgive me for asking you all what may be a stupid question, but if Islam itself is the enemy, what on earth is the US doing in Iraq?
Read the article again, the employees are complaining about being restricted by political correctness. That being said, to try and pretend that Islam is not a major part of the equation is pure idiocy. Or should we pretend that everyone has an equal chance of being a terrorist?
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posted on
02/12/2007 8:29:19 PM PST
by
johnny33
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