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War on Words: CAIR Asks Journalists to Drop the Term Islamist
The BLAZE ^ | 6 January 2013 | Sharona Schwartz

Posted on 01/06/2013 6:55:51 AM PST by Patriot95

he Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking the nation’s media to make this their new year’s resolution: Stop using the word “Islamist.”

Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s communications director, explained in a Jan. 3 op-ed why his group is upset the Associated Press added the term to its latest stylebook, a document that guides reporters worldwide. Hooper wrote:

That entry reads: “Islamist — Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi.”

The AP says it sought input from Arabic-speaking experts and hoped to provide a neutral perspective by emphasizing the “wide range” of religious views encompassed in the term. Many Muslims who wish to serve the public good are influenced by the principles of their faith. Islam teaches Muslims to work for the welfare of humanity and to be honest and just. If this inspiration came from the Bible, such a person might well be called a Good Samaritan. But when the source is the Quran, the person is an “Islamist.”

Unfortunately, the term “Islamist” has become shorthand for “Muslims we don’t like.” It is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context and is often coupled with the term “extremist,” giving it an even more negative slant.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; islamist; islamofascist; medievalfascism; muslims; terrorism; waronterror
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Hope this wasn't already posted.

Okay CAIR, we'll start calling them Muhammadans.

1 posted on 01/06/2013 6:56:00 AM PST by Patriot95
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To: Patriot95

I suppose “goat-humpers” is right out...


2 posted on 01/06/2013 6:57:49 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Or goat-humping Muhammadans.


3 posted on 01/06/2013 7:00:17 AM PST by Patriot95
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To: Patriot95

Jihadists it is then.


4 posted on 01/06/2013 7:01:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Patriot95

“Evolutionary Throwbacks” has a nice ring to it.


5 posted on 01/06/2013 7:02:50 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America !!!!)
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To: Patriot95

Allah & muslims should stop using words like infidels, kuffers, & nonbelievers as terms of hatred on all humanity.


6 posted on 01/06/2013 7:03:33 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: Patriot95

I like the term Muhama-hama-hama-didians. It’s like mary-j-u-wanna.


7 posted on 01/06/2013 7:03:33 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Patriot95

The Language of the Third Reich Written by Victor Klemperer. In the book he explains how the nazis manipulated the language as a means of manipulating society.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Third-Reich-Imprerii/dp/0826457770


8 posted on 01/06/2013 7:06:02 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Iron Munro

Goat buggering islamderthals?


9 posted on 01/06/2013 7:07:14 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Patriot95

It was. POS is short and sweet.


10 posted on 01/06/2013 7:07:38 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: pepsionice

Ibrahim Hooper can kiss my royal Irish azz.


11 posted on 01/06/2013 7:07:42 AM PST by Ax
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To: Patriot95

Terrorists it is then. Was just trying to be nice with Islamist.


12 posted on 01/06/2013 7:07:58 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Patriot95

Let me rewrite this:

The Islamist Muslim agitator group Council on American-Islamist Relations (CAIR) is asking the nation’s dhimmi media to make this their new year’s resolution: Stop using the word “Christian.”

Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s Islamist communications director, explained in a Jan. 3 op-ed why his group is upset the Associated Press added the term to its latest stylebook, a document that guides reporters worldwide. Hooper wrote:

“Christians worship a false god, the Mohammedan prophet Jesus, who was not God, but a prophet, and one claimed by Islam as a prophet. Being infidels, they have no right or claim to an Islamic prophet in any form, as they are descended from unclean pigs and dogs. Likewise they have no claim to any parts of any Muslim lands on which they have built their heretical and blasphemous temples and atheist edifices.

“And Muslim lands now include the entirety of Africa, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, as well as large portions of North and South America that are and will become Muslim lands in the near future.”


13 posted on 01/06/2013 7:13:16 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Patriot95

How about ‘Shariaists’?


14 posted on 01/06/2013 7:17:33 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Doc Savage

PIeces of Sunni?


15 posted on 01/06/2013 7:18:11 AM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: Patriot95

Muslims we don’t like? You mean the ones who really believe it is their religious duty to impose Islam’s Three Demands upon all unbelievers: Convert, Submit or Die?

Or do you mean Muslims who believe in the traditional definition of “jiihad”, that Muslims who die while bringing death to infidels are given a priority boarding pass to the afterlife, which appears to me to be a big brothel. Those Muslims?

Or do you mean those Muslims who accept the Islamic teaching of “taqiyya”, a word that means that a Muslim can tell any lie if it advances Islam. Or maybe those Muslims who believe they must not make any friends among those who do not believe?

Or those Muslims who divide the world into two parts: The part under Islam’s control that they call “Dar al-Islam”, meaning “land of peace”, and the part they call “Dar al-harb “, meaning “land of war”. So when Muslims call Islam the “religion of peace” they are referring to lands and peoples under the control of Islam only. And the only way for you, oh unbeliever, to not have Muslims constantly committing war against you is for you to accept Islam and be at peace?

Or the kind of Muslims who are obligated to kill anyone in cold blood who insults Islam?

Those kind of Muslims? Or a kind who cannot quite bring themselves to obey the Koran, and the Hadith and Sunnah?


16 posted on 01/06/2013 7:21:58 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: Patriot95

Rock Worshipping Porkaphobes


17 posted on 01/06/2013 7:21:58 AM PST by Califreak (11/6/12 The Day America Divided By Zero)
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To: Izzy Dunne

How about “camel fornicators”?


18 posted on 01/06/2013 7:24:17 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Patriot95

Okay....Cult of ignorant Murderers..


19 posted on 01/06/2013 7:24:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: cripplecreek
In the book he explains how the nazis manipulated the language as a means of manipulating society.

Others who use this ploy are: feminists, blacks, marxists, college professors, abortionists, socialists, and journalists.
Coincidence?

20 posted on 01/06/2013 7:27:24 AM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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