Posted on 04/23/2008 9:30:01 AM PDT by LSUfan
When they start calling for Al-Zawahiri and other Islamic jihadists to stop using Islamic texts and teachings to call for violence, maybe they'll have a case against McCain.
"Muslims press McCain on 'Islamic' terror label," by Rowan Scarborough for the Washington Times (thanks to all who sent this in):
A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective "Islamic" to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.
Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy.
The Islamic Society of North America was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation jihad terror funding case last summer.
Also, in a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum outlining its strategic goals for the United States, ISNA was named as one of the groups participating in "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
"We've tried to contact his office, contact his spokesperson to have them rethink word usage that is more acceptable to the Muslim community," Mr. Fareed said. "If it's not our intent to paint everyone with the same brush, then certainly we should think seriously about just characterizing them as criminals, because that is what they are."
An aide to Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who is counting on his pro-Iraq war stance to attract conservative voters, said the senator from Arizona will not drop the word.
Steve Schmidt, a former Bush White House aide who is now a McCain media strategist, told The Times that the use of the word is appropriate and that the candidate will continue to define the enemy that way.
"Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda represent a perverted strain of Islam at odds with the great many peaceful Muslims who practice their great faith peacefully," Mr. Schmidt said. "But the reality is, the hateful ideology which underpins bin Ladenism is properly described as radical Islamic extremism. Senator McCain refers to it that way because that is what it is."
McCain in this, as inadequate and false as it is, comes closer to the truth than the present White House occupant or the other two aspirants to the throne.
Mr. McCain often uses the term "Islamic" to describe terrorist enemies. The two remaining Democrats in the presidential field, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, generally shun such word usage.
President Bush also avoids the term, prompting criticism from some conservative pundits, who say the White-House-coined phrase "war on terror" does not sufficiently identify the enemy. Mr. Bush used the term "Islamic fascists" several times in 2006 and was criticized by Muslims....
Mr. Fareed, who is ISNA's secretary-general, said such usages are wrong.
"My own take on this is that we tried and failed to stylize this particular onslaught against the United States as one that has religious connotations and regional connotations," said Mr. Fareed, a former associate professor of Islamic studies at Wayne State University.
"I think this is just criminality, fair and square. We should just call them criminals. You want to call them terrorist criminals, fine," he said. "But adding the word 'Muslim' or 'Islamic' certainly doesn't help our cause as Americans. It's counterproductive. It paints an entire community of believers, 1.2 billion in total, in a very negative way. And certainly that's not something that we want to do."...
Painting everyone with the same brush? Come on, Mr. Fareed. This is so specious it reeks. As I've said many times before, the phrase "Islamic terrorists" no more paints all Muslims as terrorists than the phrase "Italian fascists" paints all Italians as fascists or "Conservative Democrat" paints all conservatives as Democrats. Basic grammar, apparently, must go out the window for the cause of PC mau-mauing.
He should refer to them as “disenfranchised youth.” /sarc
Because infidels aren't innocent. It's doublespeak and we ARE seeing "real" Islam, all over the world every single day, in places where they have a decent percentage. Read this article and tell me it isn't geopolitically accurate.
Islam is an evil religion, full of terrorists and evil people who are worse than Nazis and KKKers, but we must celebrate the diversity, and McCain will all he can to see that we do. This little slip up will pass.
They all bow to the same Mecca 5 times every day. Mecca, the segregated muslim-only city within the Islamic supremacist theocracy of Saudi Arabia. What moderates ever speak out against any of that?
Nazism was a religion too. It told a mythological pagan tale of Aryan supremacy and praise the conquering warlord Hitler. His book was the handbook for the people.
Even now there are those who gather to praise his legacy.
We can still judge it as a vile faith.
And the dutch cartoonists who defamed Islam weren't muslims so you do not have to be a muslim to be on the receiving end of a fatwa.
So again, where are the criticisms by “moderate” muslims of the non-muslim muslims who bring them shame and confuse the meaning of “Islam”?
Islamo-Nazis is a better term. McCain should try it. It feels good and it’s true.
> They all bow to the same Mecca 5 times every day. Mecca, the segregated muslim-only city within the Islamic supremacist theocracy of Saudi Arabia. What moderates ever speak out against any of that?
They don’t. The WOT could be over in fifteen minutes, if a few decent Muslims were to call FEDEX and send a package to George W Bush containing the severed heads of Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khaled Mashal, Muqtada al-Sadr and one or two others.
That package will never be sent. This is because all Muslims are complicit in the acts of Islamic terrorism. If only by silence and inaction.
They know who the bad actors are. And they refuse to do anything about it.
(maybe)
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