Hey "Ingrid" stick this in your pipe and SMOKE IT.
Posted on 09/01/2006 6:04:17 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) ROSEMONT, Ill -- The newly elected head of the largest Muslim group in North America called President Bush's recasting of the war on terror as a "war against Islamic fascism" inaccurate and not helpful to people of her faith.
Ingrid Mattson, the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Friday that labeling terrorism as "Islamic" only adds to a misunderstanding of the religion.
Mattson acknowledged that terrorist groups "do misuse and use Islamic concepts and terms to justify their violence."
"But I think that when we then bestow that term upon them we only make the situation worse and somehow give validity to their claims which we need to deny and reject," she said at the opening of the group's 43rd annual convention.
Bush and other Republicans have been using the wording in recent speeches. White House aides and outside Republican strategists have said the new term is an attempt to more clearly identify the ideology that motivates many organized terrorist groups.
"I'm convinced that it is not only inaccurate, but unhelpful," she said. "If our major concern is security, security of this country, this is a term that has very bad resonance in the Muslim majority world and makes us feel uncomfortable here."
Mattson said her group would argue to eliminate the use of the phrase. U.S. officials, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, are attending the meeting.
"We're hoping that there can be some adjustment to this language and we're trying to voice that opinion to those who have been using this, circulating this term," she said.
England did not address the issue during a Friday afternoon panel, but said American Muslims will play an important role as the Pentagon improves its training of the military on Islamic culture.
"They understand their culture, obviously, much better than we do," England said. "We have not done a very good job in the past and we need to do better."
He also called on Muslim Americans to spread to the world the word about freedom, citing the success of Muslim businesspeople and professionals in the United States.
The Islamic Society drew its own fire for inviting former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who is expected to address the convention Saturday.
"Khatami ... behaved as an enemy of America and our most cherished values," said Jay Tcath, vice president of the Chicago Jewish Federation in a statement. "It is disturbing that any American organization would honor him by providing such an important platform."
Tcath said American Jews remember "the egregious 1999 imprisonment and circus trial of 13 Iranian Jews on trumped-up charges of espionage for Israel," which happened under Khatami's presidency.
Mattson said the group hopes to show Khatami "how the American Muslim community has dealt with issues of religious freedom and tolerance and perhaps he can carry some of that message back."
Khatami, whose receipt of a visa was announced this week by the State Department, also plans to attend a U.N. conference in New York and to speak on religion's role in promoting peace at the Washington National Cathedral during his trip to the United States.
The Islamic Society's four-day meeting is expected to draw more than 30,000 Muslims from Canada and around the United States for mostly nonpolitical sessions on subjects including retirement planning, Internet marketing, home schooling and dating.
The Bush Admin, using the word "fascists" "Islamofascists" is PC turned back against those who live by categorizing ALL people.
Never forget the mottos, created by liberals...
"If it's happening to ONE WOMAN ANYWHERE, it's happening to all women EVERYWHERE".
If one black is discriminated against, all blacks are being discriminated against"..etc. etc.
The log, in this article, is in the eye of the spokesPERSON representing the largest "islamic" organization.
She needs to ask the Dems why they began this obnoxious political ploy so long ago.
President Bush, SecDef Rumsfeld and others have applied this term SPECIFICALLY to the murdering terrorists and those who finance, aid, harbor, and abet them.
But liberals can only see in terms of "all". Ergo, ipso, the spokesPERSON (remember... saying "spokesman or spokeswoman" was declared sexist by the liberals many moons ago) is a LIBERAL and is unable to make important distinctions. And really, when I think some more about this LIBERAL SPOKESPERSON being referred to as a "woman" -- WHO CARES!? iT SHOULDN'T MATTER, in the liberal world. But obviously, it does. Ergo, this "author" knows how to play pinko politics.
Muzzies sure do get "offended" easily.
then, under her breath, "while we are on our holy mission to subvert American society, allahu akbar."
Kick them out the country right on their cans and they can take their skiffy gutter "religion" with them.
My fellow atheists only need to look at how many Christians there are in government to realize that Christians do NOT want to "make this a Christian theocracy."
I would ask my fellow atheists who bitch about "Bush's Christianity" and all that: How would you feel if all of the Christians who are working in our government were replaced by Muslims in the next election? How long do you think it would take for them to ammend our constitution to toally wipe out what this nation IS, replacing it with...
Well, you finish the sentence for yourselves. But I think you get my point.
Hey "Ingrid" stick this in your pipe and SMOKE IT.
imattson@hartsem.edu
Ask her. I think I will, too.
I agree with her. It's unhelpful. For their mission. As about accuracy, I think Islamofacist is accurate.
Lets make Ingrid happy by declaring Islamic Sharia Law and stripping her of her position, her right to vote, her driving privledges, her right to work, her right to marry a man of her own choosing, her right to free speech, her right to own property, her right to own a business and her right to an education. I'll sew the burkha myself.
Thanks for those eye-opener pics...
Bush Distorts 'Islamic'
.... That was true back in Sept. of '01 when he called it a religion of peace, lately he has been doing better.
Memo To Ingrid Mattson:
Click the Pic
Believe me islime bitch. I have no misunderstanding of the muslime use of terrorist tactics in the pursuit of world domination.
So....
STFU!
Click the Pic
If we had a competent PR apparatus in the White House I wouldn't have to be posting these pics, every American would be very familiar with them.
Darkwolf, As a Christian, I am amazed at an atheist statement like this! There is a value in Christian thought that I did not know atheists recognized. Thank you.
And please don't be offended if I say God Bless (after all, He could, actually, exists!)
Ingrid Mattson, the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Friday that labeling terrorism as "Islamic" only adds to a misunderstanding of the religion. Mattson acknowledged that terrorist groups "do misuse and use Islamic concepts and terms to justify their violence."
This is a lie. The terrorists and Muslim war mongers and Muslim bullies know Islam better than her and can cite chapter and verse from the Koran (and Hadith) for theological justifications for their blood letting. Zarqawi, Osama and Zawahiri do this all the time
Too bad, Ingrid. I make it a POINT to use the word muslim or islam whenever I'm discussing middle eastern terrorism with anybody.
It's my effort to make up for the sanitization by the drive-by media.
Whem Muslim spokepersons start to openly condemn terrorism, I'll start to care about what they say. Until than, I will paint them with the same paintbrush as Islamofascists.
She's quite young, a Canadian and a convert from Roman Catholicism! I'll be her folks are real proud of her. :(
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