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January 31, 2006
Terrorist front-group CAIR
wags its finger at President Bush
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, says President Bush should avoid using "loaded and imprecise terminology" when he refers to Islam in his State of the Union address.Yes, counterproductive to CAIR's aims, which has not a friggin thing to do with combating ISLAMIST terrorism or promoting Western values.In a letter to President Bush, CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed suggested that the president be careful to "avoid the use of hot-button terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' 'militant jihadism,' 'Islamic radicalism,' or 'totalitarian Islamic empire'" in his Tuesday night speech.
Ahmed reminded the president that, as Bush repeatedly has said, the war on terror is not a war on Islam. But Ahmed said the use of "loaded" terminology promotes that negative perception.
"I believe the repeated rhetorical linkage of Islam to terms of violence and extremism is counterproductive and complicates our legitimate foreign policy initiatives," Ahmed told the president.
Not all moslems are terrorists, but almost all contemporary terrorism is Islamism motivated.
From Osama to Hamas, this is the face (and goals) of Islamism.
Posted by Darleen at January 31, 2006 06:38 AM