Posted on 12/10/2015 2:53:24 PM PST by presidio9
It has become a sort of mantra in the U.S. election cycle. When faced with questions of national security, Republican presidential candidates consistently harp on the importance of calling out "radical Islam" — something they believe the Obama administration and their Democratic opponents don't do.
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Part of the rhetorical move involves an attempt to cast Obama and rival Democrats as too soft and politically correct. The reticence of liberals and some Democrats to grandstand on the Islamist threat is a convenient wedge issue in an election year, aimed at harnessing widespread fears over jihadist infiltration and violence.
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"I am willing to guess that political correctness is part of the reason some politicians have been so reluctant to use the phrase," writes Steven Cook, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "At the same time, given the stomach-turning Islamophobia that has become a feature of mainstream American politics, it is probably prudent not to abet a divisive discourse that pits citizens against each other."
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These people really live in some alternate reality.
Says a guy named Ishaan Thoroor..
Leftism is a mental disorder. They want to drag us all into their delusions.
If one wants “stomach turning”, imagine a muslim president.
Oh, wait.......
“Stomach-turning Islamophobia”
“Alternate reality”
Yep. At the turn of the century (or millenium) I thought Islam was a formerly aggressive movement that had been mostly defanged after the World Wars. But, every friggin’ time I have to take off my shoes at the airport, I’m reminded that isn’t true.
Turkey’s president: Islam is Islam
The author of this patently ridiculous piece is a blithering idiot !
“Republican presidential candidates consistently harp on the importance of calling out “radical Islam””
No they don’t. There are some who just want to say politically correct things like the Democrats. There are others who want to put an end to the violence and the senseless slaughter of innocent people.
These are called racists and Islamophobes.
I can see why this man is a Brookings Institute "scholar."
Mad Mo made Islamic Violins against peaceful neighbors a basic tenet of ISlam.
Says a guy named Ishaan Thoroor..
In lipstick no less! Not sure how that would go over in the Caliphate.
It’s double secret code for “fear for our lives.”
Who knows Islam better?
So was all of World War II merely Teutophobia and Japanophobia? Should we have just hugged it out on December 8, 1941?
Who knows Islam better?
What is truly stomach turning is seeing a woman buried to the shoulders in sand and then stoned to death; a man put into a cage, doused with gasoline and set on fire; a Christian crucified on a wooden cross; 14 innocent Californian gunned down, hundreds gunned down in France and on and on for the last 1400 years. Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot don’t even come close to the carnage wrought by Islam.
Washington Post. Owned by Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon, no? I wonder, is there a decent Conservative or Christian alternative to Amazon? I’d like nothing better than to redirect my dollars elsewhere at this point.
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