Chertoff's 'Islam PC' rankles fed officials

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 10, 2007

[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.

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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.

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"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.

[navyguy]

The US Gummint... givin' it to ya straight...

[The Blitherer]

Oh fer goodness sake! Our government needs to grow a pair.

[volunbeer]

Political correctness will be the death of us.... look no further than Europe.

[rockinqsranch]

If PC doesn't get us, Islam will.

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[NY Attitude]

Sometimes I wonder if our government is doing this by design. We should have stopped this PC crap buttcold a long time ago.

[The Blitherer]

If PC doesn't get us, Islam will.

Or another way of putting it: If PC gets us, Islam will.

[pissant]

"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.

[volunbeer]

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.

[DTogo]

How lower can the Bush Administration go, what's next?

[hinckley buzzard]

DHS Headquarters is merely echoing the President's exact words.

My thoughts too. This crapola starts at the top.

[Calpernia]

Maybe those Homeland Security memos should be asking Michael Chertoff who Dr. Magdy Elamir is.

[johnny33]

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.

[volunbeer]

Liberalism.......

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Just nip it! Nip it in the bud. ;-)

[Frwy]

I give up. The government has become a bunch of deaf, dumb and blind weaklings, from the top down.

[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?

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?

[JerseyJohn61]

Before long the words Nazi, fascist and imperialist will
disappear from public school textbook chapters on WWII.

This is so pathetic....JJ61

[Revolting cat!]

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.

[johnny33]

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?