Muslims groups angry with Bush (Oh My!)

News24 (South Africa) ^ | 11 August 2006 | News24

[Cornpone]

Washington - US Muslim groups criticised US 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.

US 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 counterproductive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.

Restraint

"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 US officials should take the lead from their British counterparts who 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."

'Islamo-fascism'

Bush and other administration officials have used variations of the term "Islamo-fascism" on several occasions in the past to describe militant groups including al-Qaeda, its allies in Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff told MSNBC television the phrase reflected what he called Osama bin Laden's own vision of leading a totalitarian empire under the guise of religion.

"It might may not be classic fascism as you had with Mussolini or Hitler. But it is a totalitarian, intolerant imperialism that has a vision that is totally at odds with Western society and our rules of law," Chertoff said.

[Cornpone]

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage expresses its, you guessed it,...outrage...oh my.

[vimto]

Muslims and Islam and Imams Oh No!

[Paladin2]

Islam, the religion of violins and potential violins.

[gondramB]

>>foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.<<

Well, the President really should have used the proper compound noun - "Islamofascist."

[Cornpone]

Ping...

[Paladin2]

"Stop Jihad Now!"

[ajolympian2004]

Nice to hear President Bush call it what it is. Thanks goes to new press secretary Tony Snow for this.

[IrishMike]

...US Muslim groups criticised US 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.
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Too bad, if the shoe fits....... wear it.
Muslim fanatical terrorists are trying to kill us, change our way of life, impose their radical beliefs.
It's time to eradicate terrorists, and if they're Muslims ....... Oh well, tough $hit.

[evad]

"It might may not be classic fascism as you had with Mussolini or Hitler.

Correct, it's much more pervasive and much, much worse.

It's long past time to ignore these apologists and aggressively pursue the course to VICTORY!

[mewzilla]

But the thought of hundreds of human beings being blown out of the sky doesn't bother them nearly as much.

Go figure.

[coconutt2000]

Nice to hear President Bush call it what it is.

The President has been calling it that for a long time.

[Kakaze]

" "It might may not be classic fascism as you had with Mussolini or Hitler. But it is a totalitarian, intolerant imperialism that has a vision that is totally at odds with Western society and our rules of law," Chertoff said "

Shout it from the roof tops!

Secretary Chertoff, Shout it from the roof tops.....

[Allegra]

Hey, Islamic fascists...stop blowing stuff up and killing people and we'll stop referring to you as "Islamic fascists."

Personally, I call them terrorists.

[Leisler]

Can't name them islamofascists? Then how about "Muslims", or "Islam"?

[backhoe]

CAIR Goes Nuts Over Bush Remark

Right on cue, the Council on American Islamic Relations pegs the Seethe-O-Meter over President Bush’s use of the words “Islamic fascism:” US Muslims bristle at Bush term ‘Islamic fascists’.

And here’s something else that will probably induce seething, as Robert Spencer appears on CNN Headline News tonight.

UPDATE at 8/10/06 1:55:17 pm:

Allahpundit has video of Bush’s speech on the British Islamic terror plot: Bush on America’s war with “Islamic fascism” (Update: CAIR shrieks).  link: 267 comments  --more-- link: 333 comments  "OK. Let me get this straight.Moslems can equate Jews with Nazis, and Bush with Hitler, in unjust and insane comparisons, but Bush can't call Islamic fascism for what it, in actual fact, is?"

Rod Dreher has some good stuff over at his Crunchy Con blog today, especially regarding CAIR and the islamic fifth colunists.

http://www.anti-cair-net.org/ Since its founding in 1994, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its employees have combined, conspired,
and agreed with third parties, including, but not limited to, the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (“HLF”), the Global Relief Foundation (“GRF”), and foreign
nationals hostile to the interests of the United States

Posted by Jeff Goldstein @ 01:15 PM 

 

"Lizardophobia"

CAIR Doesn't Like Us

Radical Islamist front group CAIR continues to libel me (by name) and Little Green Footballs in general, with a release on their web site about their statement to the Washington Post that repeats Ibrahim Hooper’s falsehoods, and has a classic CAIR smear for its title: CAIR: Islamophobic Blog Takes Aim at News Media.  link: 168 comments

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Nahanni  8/10/2006 05:30PM PDT

 

The only reason they do is that you expose them for who and what they are, Charles. They fear that others are beginning to see what you have been telling people about them and Islamofascism in general is the truth. You have already singlehandedly wrecked their massive propaganda campaign against Israel with the exposure of the fauxtography of the MSM and Pallywood.

So they are beginning to feel the need to shut you up and shut you down. Of course they will try every trick in the book and bring in their LLL³ funders and allies to help.

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Ann  8/10/2006 05:05PM PDT

 

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization often vilified on Johnson's blog, calls Little Green Footballs "a vicious, anti-Muslim hate site . . . that has unfortunately become popular."

This is why you pissed us off, you shit:

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper told the Star Tribune. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."

Yes, you are not an American with our interests in mind. You are the enemy, and have been working your agenda for thirteen years.

Education route? Dahwa v. jihad. Your goal is the same.

They don't hate us because of Iraq. They don't hate us because of George W. Bush.

Way back in 1995, before Iraq, before Bush, the Islamic fascists tried a very similar airline terror..

Terror Plot Resembles 1995 Operation
Top Bin Laden Aide Planned To Blow Up 12 Flights Into The U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.c...

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Cato the Elder  8/10/2006 11:17PM PDT

 

With today's news from London it just got a little bit harder to convince Joe Sixpack that "Islamophobia" is a bad thing.

CAIR BASHES BUSH ON "ISLAMIC FASCISM"

CAIR is calling out President Bush for finally calling the enemy what it is -- Islamic fascism. If CAIR  loved freedom, justice and the American way, they would be denouncing Hezb'Allah, Ahmadinejad and aiding law enforcement in cracking sleeper cells in our great country.

U.S. MUSLIMS CONCERNED ABOUT BUSH'S USE OF 'ISLAMIC FASCISTS' - TOP
CAIR: 'Today you equated the religion of peace with the ugliness of fascism'

Yeah, you read that right. Religion of peace? Only under a pax islamica. No oeace until we all submit to Islam. That's right folks. That's what RoP means..........RoPMA

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/10/06) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today expressed concern over President Bush's use of the term "Islamic fascists" in a news conference about the arrest of 21 suspects in a plot to bomb airliners flying between Britain and the United States.

SEE: Religious Group Bristles at Bush Term 'Islamic Fascists' (Reuters)

In a letter to President Bush, Parvez Ahmed, board chairman of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wrote in part:

"Unfortunately, your statement this morning that America 'is at war with Islamic fascists' contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community. Just today, Gallup released a poll indicating that four out of ten Americans feel 'prejudice' toward Muslims.

Either you are with us or against us. Otherwise, you are part of the fifth column.

Posted by Pamela on Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 08:29 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (3)

Personally, I generally just call them terrorists. They clearly have some qualities in common with the fascists of the 30s and 40s, but, frankly, calling the terrorists "fascists" does a disservice to the fascists. In my opinion, today's Islamic terrorists are worse even than the Communists, who previously held the record. Worse qualitatively, that is; the difference is that the terrorists don't yet wield the kind of power that the Communists once did.

If anyone ever figures out what CAIR wants us to call the people who try to blow up airplanes, let me know. In the meantime, I'll keep on calling them "the *&#)@/ terrorists."

Posted by John at 07:50 PM | Permalink

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

It might may not be classic fascism as you had with Mussolini or Hitler

Ahh the classics. Don't you miss them? Their parades were so much better.

[Sacajaweau]

But they didn't say boo against the terrorists. Man, they are one screw** up "cult".

[mewzilla]

Personally, I call them terrorists.

So are members of the British press today.

My, my, my....

[YOUGOTIT]

Islam terrorist are trying to kill us all and these idiots want us to call them something else. Go eat pig.

[PeteB570]

So, let's see if I have this right?

They are trying to kill us and make islam the religion of the world and they are mad because we noticed?