Posted on 08/20/2010 6:40:56 PM PDT by kristinn
Some counterterrorism experts say the anti-Muslim sentiment that has saturated the airwaves and blogs in the debate over plans for an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing into the hands of extremists by bolstering their claims that the United States is hostile to Islam.
Opposition to the center by prominent politicians and other public figures in the United States has been covered extensively by the news media in Muslim countries. At a time of concern about radicalization of young Muslims in the West, it risks adding new fuel to Al Qaeda’s claim that Islam is under attack by the West and must be defended with violence, some specialists on Islamic militancy say.
“I know people in this debate don’t intend it, but there are consequences for these kinds of remarks,” said Brian Fishman, who studies terrorism for the New America Foundation here.
He said that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric hiding in Yemen who has been linked to several terrorist plots, has been arguing for months in Web speeches and in a new Qaeda magazine that American Muslims face a dark future of ever-worsening discrimination and vilification.
“When the rhetoric is so inflammatory that it serves the interests of a jihadi recruiter like Awlaki, politicians need to be called on it,” Mr. Fishman said.
Evan F. Kohlmann, who tracks militant Web sites at the security consulting firm Flashpoint Global Partners, said supporters of Al Qaeda have seized on the controversy “with glee.” On radical Web forums, he said, the dispute over the Islamic center, which would include space for worship, is lumped together with fringe developments like a Florida pastor’s call for making Sept. 11 “Burn a Koran Day.”
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But, according to the experts it's all our fault that because we don't want an Islamic Victory mosque at Ground Zero that terrorists will want to attack us again.
Oh, so that is why they attacked us on 9/11.
So what “consequences” are there for the millions of Islamists screaming “Death to America” and burning our flag?
*Crickets*
The same thing happened with Japan and Germany during WWII. As long as they were attacking the US and its interests, the dislike and distrust of Islam will continue and grow. It will grow until something breaks. It’s up to Islam how far it will go.
Remember, once Japan and Germany were beaten, Americans left them alone. I will not accept the belief by some people that it is Americas fault.
So we better vote in the Victory Mosque or they’ll get mad at us and kill us.
Yes, it does bolster extremists and that is one of the reasons the Mosque is planned for GZ. Also, anti mosque statements will be broadcast in Saudi, Dubai, etc. to show people that “we really don’t really believe in their freedom”. This aggressive act is win, win, win for the people funding it.
My question is, how is Obama getting ahead in all of this? Given the 52,000sqft mosque in Murfreesboro too, I would bet that Obama had some sort of conversation with the king of Saudi but what I don’t get is what is he getting in return? I wouldn’t put it past him to have offered his support for the Mosques in return for nothing but who knows?
As soon as I saw the words “New York Times”......What did they do, make, I mean take a ‘pole’? Oh, sorry, this was an ‘expert’. Pffffft!
If we only reached out and started a mutual dialogue, we wouldn't be helping those bent on destroying us in their recruiting efforts, blah blah blah.
Really, how many cowards are there in this country who believe this complete nonsense?
These “experts” are full of $hit and what they are saying amounts to more BS excuses........you can remove every grievance these ISLAMIC extremists, radicals, and terrorist have about the US today and they would wake up tomorrow and find something new to excuse their extremist, radical, and terrorist actions and deeds. Anti-Islam protests are meaningless to the greater reasons and motivations as to why ISLAMIC extremists, radicals, and terrorists do what they do. Therefore, as I initially asserted, these alleged “experts” are full of $hit! Oh, and frak you libtard idiot-ridden New York Slimes for even printing this BS (!) story. =.=
pole = poll
isSlime has been known to use absolute barbarism including mass murder through poisoning.
Makes you wonder whether Adolph or they came first? Actually it was them by a millenia.
Duh!
0d0rk0 ...... missing 48 years!
I think the opposite. It makes the Islamists less emboldened. Evil has to be confronted and dealt with.
Good one! Divine Rights of Kings still exist and Obama is proof of that.
Is Obama the Winged Horse
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37395
This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq.
Btw, Iran is going Nuclear around that Aug 22 date.
Isn't that the purpose of the Victory Mosque, to bolster the extremists? So now, we don't allow the Mosque, and we bolster those same extremists, and it's all our fault?
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