Bush's "most wanted" move risks alienating Muslims

Reuters ^ | 10/12/2001 | Karen Matusic

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

"Alienating muslims wouldn't be smart. The US is very dependent on Arab oil."

Try this:

Alienating Americans wouldn't be smart. The Arabs are very dependent on American money.

[AmericanInTokyo]

aw, what a crock a' sh1t! how else are you going to catch the bad guys. some of these touchyfeely academics make me want to puke. Their voices and the liberal support they get will dwindle exponentially, IMHO, after the next round of terrorist attacks on US soil which will most likely involve bearded, Middle Eastern men in their 30s. I am afraid the backlash is coming.

[Pat Fish]

You know, I am simply not believing this.

And I bet this is why there's even been a delay on the part of the administration in releasing the list. Prolly silly Arafat and Prince two-faced of Egypt warned, oh so solemnly, that it's best not inflame the masses.

Then the oil shieks head back to their country, live in the lap of luxury, allow the nuts in the street to go unchecked, at worst passively encourage the anti-Iraeli stance from birth to suicide age; at best out-and-out aid and abet the kooks, and think our political correctness, or "niceness" as MArtha Stewart would call it, will prevent us speaking out.

Ole Arafat, Mohammed, Mustufah, Abdullah...all shook their heads with worry and stroked their beards. "Is bad thing," they say in halting English. "The masses, it will not be good to appear America against Muslims. Do not publish list."

For a while, maybe Powell, maybe Cheney, agree. Then the mullahs and shieks head back to camel land and piously pronounce that America should re-examine its ally, the terrible Israel, inflaming the masses even more that Powell or Cheney see things are really dicey over here.

Allah forbid they should do the right thing like poor Pakistani President Musharraf who has to sit by and watch his country torn apart but still he shoots them dead. Wouldn't want them to leave their gold-plate toilets and be the leaders they're supposed to be though I know better. Buncha pansy wusses, no wonder they wear dresses.

I think ole Bush and Cheney got tired of this nonsense and published the list. And until blue-haired ladies start hijacking airplanes and ramming them into buildings we're going to have to focus on who is actually doing the deeds. No matter their race, religion or ethnic origin that's the kind of open-minded guys we are.

I think this war is as much about those prissy grand poobahs of sand as it is about their crazed subjects.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How can you alienate a group of people who have hated your guts since the day they were born?

[Cachelot]

BUSH INSENSITIVE TO MUSLIMS

Good. And I've had my shots, so I'm not sensitive to them either.

[ijcr]

USGS Open-File Report 97-463

RANKING OF THE WORLD'S OIL AND GAS PROVINCES BY KNOWN PETROLEUM VOLUMES

Open-File Report 97-463

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Figure 4. Histogram showing known petroleum volumes of the world by region. The number of provinces in each region that contain known oil and gas are shown. The United States known petroleum volume is included in Region 5. [BBOE is billion barrels of oil equivalent. For this calculation, 6,000 cubic feet of gas equals 1 barrel of oil equivalent.]

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These do not include any new discoveries for example ANWAR.

[spindoctor]

All this whining about how arabs are being picked on only contributes to the perception that they're the victims. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And it's also pathetic. Instead of whining about it, arabs should be at the forefront of condemning the terrorists as loudly and as often as possible.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Bush's "most wanted" move risks alienating Muslims

Hmmmmmmmm............oh well

[Cachelot]

Yes, but who would be hurt more? America without Arab oil for 3 months

Oh, but we'd just tap the Russians, the Norwegians, the Venezuelans and a few others, and arrangements would be made in three minutes :). And you folks would be reduced to eating sand loaves baked in crude .. until arrangements could be made with a new and more sensible management.

[stubernx98]

I wouldn't worry about it. there is enough oil in the oil shale depositis in the Rockies to last us anoyther 100 years. Except it costs about $45-$50 a barrel to extract. Gas will cost about $2.50 a gal then, but think of the jobs, and our balance of payments, defunding the middle east terrorists.

[NittanyLion]

When the peak happens, supply will no longer be able to meet demand and lots of bad stuff will follow.

Yep. And by 2005 global warming will have elevated global temperatures by 50 degrees, causing melting of all ice everywhere on earth. Buying real estate above 15000 feet is a good idea, because everything else will be submerged.

Idiot.

[Let's Roll]

Really, newbie/disruptor, member since 10/11/2001!

[keri]

Surely white Christians could make a U.S. most-wanted list?

This isn't in Q-marks. Is this Karen Matusic's opinion?

Reuters is pro-terrorist, but this feeble-minded remark is way over the line. Last time I looked, "white" Christians weren't hijacking airliners and blowing up buildings, in their own or anyone else's country.

Karen's an ugly, devious little harpy, and she has no manners.

[Anamensis]

You know, if the English were to make up a list of THEIR most wanted terrorists...

"Aye an' yer a racist bit o' sod, Tony me-boy! Always after me lucky charms!!"

[Anamensis]

Okay quotas for terrorists. hmm. I want at least 50% of them to be women and I want it NOW.

Well, with those veils on they all look the same...

[McGavin999]

"Now Americans think all Arabs are bad men and many Arabs now think Americans all hate them. This wasn't the case before," said Muhareb al-Emezi, a Kuwaiti businessman visiting London.

Yeah, and all Americans are beginning to think that all Arabs hate them. It might have something to do with all the pictures of Muslims burning the American flag, burning our president in effigy, and all the screaming, fist shaking people screaming Hate America slogans that we see on TV day and night. It might have something to do with the fact that we're told they represent a minority in the Arab world and yet the "majority" does nothing to shut them up. IF there is a majority out there that doesn't agree with all this hatred, they'd better start putting some pressure on their governments to get these people under control. The fact that they haven't leads us to believe that the Islamic world agrees with them.

You reap what you sow.

[MichaelP]

Frankly, Reuters can kiss my ass! Who the hell owns this bunch of refugees from journalism kindergarden, the Saudis?

Please, no more Reuters posts.....

Mike

[Texbob]

Ain't that a shame, Some Muslims alienated. We are not alienated, we are mad as hell. Untill these countries rid them selves of cowardly terrorist, they can expect to get the hell bombed out of them over and over. Its up to the Muslims to get rid of their killers before they complain.

[Windshark]

How did we get to the point where over half of our journalists are far left liberal, incapable of true thought, or in plain English....simple morons?

Will we, or the world of journalism, ever learn something from this?

Why do I have doubts?