Posted on 08/03/2007 7:30:00 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Action: Contact the Giuliani Presidential Committee
GIULIANI TO DEMS: USE THE WORDS 'ISLAMIC TERRORISTS'
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani took Democratic White House hopefuls to task Monday for being soft on terrorists and hard on capitalism.
Speaking to an invited audience of about 100 local GOP members, the former New York mayor said he was concerned that if a Democrat wins the White House the nation would take a defensive stance in "the war on terror" and become more vulnerable to a domestic attack.
"At no time during their three debates have they used the words 'Islamic terrorists,'" Giuliani said of the Democratic contenders who as he spoke were debating at The Citadel military college in South Carolina. "If they do tonight, I will take credit for it."
ACTION: CONTACT THE GIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE
CONTACT the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee to express your concerns about his promotion of linking the faith of Islam to terrorism.
CONTACT: (As always, be POLITE.)
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
295 Greenwich St, #371, New York, NY 10007
Tel: 212-835-9449, 646-943-7890
E-mail: webteam@joinrudy2008.com
FOR BACKGROUND ON THIS ISSUE, SEE:
http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=44621&theType=NB
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Don’t they know this will only contribute to the G-man’s support?
They must be very worried about the G-man.
It’s not a matter of faith. The linkage is to the life of Mo’ and to the “religious” texts.
CAIR, and it’s 1900 members might just put Rudy over the top.
Silly jihadists
Democrat Rudi is now campaigning in the Dim party against their candidates. That’s where he belongs.
Here’s CAIR’s link:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
CAIR Backgrounder: Islam Has No Ties to Terrorism
Source: The Miami Herald
CAIR: ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM
[Parvez Ahmed is chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.]
Five years into President Bush’s declaration of the “global war on terrorism,” the latest State Department report shows a 25 percent increase in worldwide terrorist attacks over the previous year. Terrorism is an abominable tactics, not an ideology. Thus declaring “war” against it, while politically expeditious, is in reality temerarious, as it only attacks the symptom without addressing the cause.
Global patterns show that terrorism is not exclusive to any one group. Between 1980 and 2003, the world’s leader in suicide terrorism has been the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a group that recruits from the predominantly Hindu Tamil population in Sri Lanka. According the Terrorism Knowledge Base (tkb.org), between 1968 and 2007, the largest purveyors of terrorism have been groups affiliated with communist/socialist or nationalist/separatist ideology.
Despite this, Islam continues to be conflated with terrorism.
The intertwining of political rhetoric with religious imagery by groups like al Qaeda certainly precipitates the notion of some intrinsic link between Islam and terrorism.
This perception is greatly assisted by a veritable cottage industry of neo-experts pontificating with great certainty about the cause-effect relationship between Islam and terrorism. Such mischaracterization is at odds with the reality that Islam unequivocally condemns terrorism and advocates the preservation of life, honor and dignity of all human life as a supreme endeavor. Thus, terrorism even when carried out in the name or defense of Islam cannot be called jihad but is rather an unholy war. Robert Pape in his seminal work Dying to Win contends that military occupation, not religious ideology, is the primary enabler of terrorism.
Douglas Streusand and Harry Tunnell of the National Defense University in a recent paper argue that characterizing terrorism committed by Muslims as “Islamic” alienates billions of peace loving Muslims worldwide. Using terms like jihadist to describe terrorist misrepresent legitimate Islamic concepts of jihad, which to most Muslims mean striving for good. Calling terrorists jihadists also legitimizes an un-Islamic activity in the eyes of the disenfranchised Muslims, thus aiding recruitment. Developing an alternative vocabulary is a necessary but not sufficient step towards addressing the problem of terrorism.
The State Department report cites continued instability in Iraq as one of the major reasons for the increases in terrorist acts. Terrorism is indeed a consequence of wars of choice such as Iraq, but it also has historic links to other wars of necessity such as the Cold War.
During the Cold War, U.S. financing, recruitment and arming of foreign fighters to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan led not only to Soviet retreat but also its demise. However, the enabling of a culture of drugs to finance the war and the deliberate injection of religious rhetoric to motivate recruits had unintended consequences. Compounding the problem, unlike post World War II Europe, no Marshall Plan was enacted to rebuild Afghanistan where out of a population of roughly 15 million, a million Afghans had died, an additional 1 ½ million were maimed, and five million had become refugees. Amid this death and destruction, with a country littered in drugs and guns, violence became law enabling terrorists to carve out safe havens.
Failed states, like occupations, can also breed and incubate terrorism.
To contain terrorism, if not eliminate it, the way forward is to engage in common-sense methods of intelligence gathering without criminalizing entire groups of people, military strategies without resorting to indiscriminate bombings and enabling the emergence of democratic and civic societies by eliminating foreign occupations. Addressing grievances cannot automatically be dismissed as appeasement. Britain succeeded in disarming the IRA by engaging them, not ignoring its demands. In fact, the conversion of terrorist groups into peaceful political movements has often occurred when their rationale for violence ceased to exist.
In a recent Washington Post article, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, called upon moderates, including Muslims, to from a global alliance “to terminate the political conflicts that spawn terrorism.” This alliance is only possible when American foreign policy changes course to reflect America’s values of liberty and justice for all, with an unwavering commitment to dialogue and diplomacy.
Oh the nerve!!!!
Prediction: The more CAIR goes after him, the more his support grows.(not really going out on a limb with that prediction)
“ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM”
BWWAAAAHHAHHHAHHHAAAHHHAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAA
Its true....not all muslims are terrorists....But its also true that 99 percent of terrorists are Muslim.
Hard to believe it’s taken this long for someone to say this. Somehow I don’t think this will be presented by the DBM.
Good try, CAIR, but you won’t trick me into supporting Giuliani that way.
At least he’s the only one with a pair big enough to state the obvious.
Other funny statements:
"John Edwards cares for the little guy"
"Hussein Obama would make a brilliant President"
"Hillary is a caring, humble woman with a soul"
Oh, so the 9/11 terrorists were Presbyterians...
OK.
Really? I thought they were Mormons. ;-)
Rudy’s got this right.
ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
COMMUNIST CHINA/CUBA
HOMOSEXUAL
Word hijacking drives me right up the wall. It’s so incredibly dishonest.
Did his campaign pay CAIR to go after him? (It would be a smart move.)
Man! Rudy couldn’t PAY for this kind of endorsement!
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