Posted on 08/10/2006 1:55:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
US Muslims bristle at Bush term "Islamic fascists" Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:07 PM ET
By Amanda Beck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.
U.S. officials have said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
"We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counter-productive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.
"We ought to take advantage of these incidents to make sure that we do not start a religious war against Islam and Muslims," he told a news conference in Washington.
"We urge him (Bush) and we urge other public officials to restrain themselves."
Awad said U.S. officials should take the lead from their British counterparts who had steered clear of using what he considered inflammatory terms when they announced the arrest of more than 20 suspects in the reported plot.
Hours after the news broke, Bush said it was "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation."
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As my father used to say: "The truth hurts."
I'll work on a name for the islamofascist's later.
Dear CAIR:
Pigshit Be Upon you
When the bloody Muslims cease trying to convert the world to Islam -their bloody false religion of terrorism then I will consider their "feelings" I bristle whenever I see them dancing in the streets over the death of American
citizens --or whenever the Party of Satan sends rockets from Lebanon into Israel I bristle everytime our President
speaks of their false religion as a Religion of Peace.
So I realy don't care if they don't like the term our
PResident used when speaking of the butchers of their bloody religion.
Let them "bristle."
Why not?
The Islamofascists have started a war with us!
Doesn't this clown undestand Arabic?
The Soviets didn't like it when President Regan called them an "evil empire" either.
I "bristle" at that, too.
"Members of an Islamic Death Cult" works for me.
2002/10/26 Russia Moscow 129 150 Chechnyan Muslims hold 800 people hostage in a theatre. Two are shot and killed and another one-hundred and twenty-seven die in the rescue attempt.
2003/12/5 Russia Yessentuki 44 150 Mujahideen suicide bomber detonates explosive on a Russian commuter train carrying civilians to work. At forty-four people, including children eventually die and about one-hundred and fifty others are injured.
2003/12/9 Russia Moscow 6 14 Female Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six people near the Kremlin and injures at least fourteen, including several college students.
2003/7/10 Russia Moscow 1 0 Security officer attempting to defuse a female Fediyeen's bomb is killed.
2003/7/5 Russia Moscow 14 24 Two Fediyeen suicide bombers, both female, kill fourteen young people and injure at least two dozen others attending a rock concert.
2003/8/1 Russia Mozdok 50 100 Muslim suicide bomber drives into a hospital and kills at least fifty. More than one hundred are injured in the blast.
2003/8/25 Russia Krasnodar 3 17 Three people were killed in a series of bombings at a caf‚ and bus stop by Muslim terrorists.
2003/9/15 Russia Magas 3 25 Fidayeen truck bombing kills at least three people and injures more than twenty-five others.
2003/9/3 Russia Kislovodsk 5 29 Mujahideen terrorist bombing of a commuter train leaves five civilians dead and about thirty injured.
2004/2/3 Russia Vladikavkaz 2 10 Two people, including a woman are killed, and at least ten others injured by a car bomb near the Chechnyan border.
2004/2/6 Russia Moscow 40 134 Forty people are murdered by a female Fedayeen suicide bomber as they were commuting to work on a Moscow subway. About one-hundred and thirty-four are injured.
2004/6/4 Russia Samara 10 39 Ten people are killed in a bomb explosion in an outdoor market. Another forty are injured by the blast, which is attributed to militant Muslims.
2004/8/24 Russia Moscow 89 0 Militant Muslims hijack two Russian passenger airliners, then murder all eighty-nine people, including women and children on board the two planes. The terrorist group Islambouli Brigade claims responsibility.
2004/8/31 Russia Moscow 11 51 A female suicide bomber kills eleven rush-hour commuters at a subway station in Moscow. Fifty-one others are injured.
2004/9/1 Russia Beslan 16 14 At least sixteen people are killed as Mujahideen terrorists invade a school, taking more than a hundred children hostage. Children are made to stand in windows with suicide bombers behind them.
2004/9/3 Russia Beslan 344 600 Islamic militants shoot fleeing children in the back, then blow them up, along with their mothers and teachers with nail-packed bombs. Others are crushed or burned to death from the effects of the bombs. More than three-hundred innocents slaughtered.
2005/4/29 Russia Nalchik 1 2 One Russian cop is killed by Islamic militants.
2005/6/12 Russia Uzunova 0 15 Fifteen people are injured when a bomb believed to be planted by Chechan terrorists derails a commuter train
Memo to CAIR: Stuff it.
CAIR - nothing like the enemy having their own propaganda organ within your own country.
"We would much prefer that Westerners associate Islam and Muslims with beheadings, torture, mutilation, and goat sex."
"We ought to take advantage of these incidents to make sure that we do not start a religious war against Islam and Muslims," he told a news conference in Washington.
"We urge citizens to start a religious war against Baptists. They have been perpetrating these outrages against Western culture long enough. Them and the Presbyterians. And the Evangelicals. You know them. Woo-eee! They'd shoe-bomb a moped!"
"We urge him (Bush) and we urge other public officials to restrain themselves."
On the other hand, private citizens should feel free to cut loose on the first towlie they see.
Hey, quit posting what I am going to post before I think of it.
Thanks for the great post and sad reminders of the facts.
Not all Islamists are Islamofascists, so the one that aren't should not take offense, eh?
Your grandmother is a smart woman!
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