Muslim Groups: Stop McCain From Calling Terrorists “Islamic” Or We Will Wage Jihad!
Yeah, sure thing there, pookie…you want bacon, ham, or pig’s blood with that plate of bullshit you just ordered?”
Fucking Islamic puke piglets…Louie has a message for ya: “Oink oink, motherfuckers!”
Where’s that pneumatic bolt gun Anton Chigurh gave me for Ramadan…?
By the way, he refers to terrorists as “Islamic” because guess what? Most terrorists in the world are Islamic.
A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.
Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy.
“We’ve tried to contact his office, contact his spokesperson to have them rethink word usage that is more acceptable to the Muslim community,” Mr. Fareed said. “If it’s not our intent to paint everyone with the same brush, then certainly we should think seriously about just characterizing them as criminals, because that is what they are.”
An aide to Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who is counting on his pro-Iraq war stance to attract conservative voters, said the senator from Arizona will not drop the word.
Steve Schmidt, a former Bush White House aide who is now a McCain media strategist, told The Times that the use of the word is appropriate and that the candidate will continue to define the enemy that way.
“Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda represent a perverted strain of Islam at odds with the great many peaceful Muslims who practice their great faith peacefully,” Mr. Schmidt said. “But the reality is, the hateful ideology which underpins bin Ladenism is properly described as radical Islamic extremism. Senator McCain refers to it that way because that is what it is.”
Mr. McCain often uses the term “Islamic” to describe terrorist enemies. The two remaining Democrats in the presidential field, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, generally shun such word usage.
President Bush also avoids the term, prompting criticism from some conservative pundits, who say the White-House-coined phrase “war on terror” does not sufficiently
Mr. McCain, an ex-Navy fighter pilot and leading hawk on the Iraq war, regularly uses the term “Islamic” in major foreign-policy speeches and in news conferences.
In a speech last month to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Mr. McCain said the formation of an international coalition “will strengthen us to confront the transcendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.”
In a Republican debate in January, Mr. McCain turned to then-rival Mitt Romney and said, “I raised it many times, as to whether you have the experience and the judgment to lead this country in the war against radical Islamic extremism.”
In a July speech to Christians United for Israel, Mr. McCain said, “Violent Islamic extremists would have us believe that there is only one acceptable religious practice, and that those who diverge from it are not entitled to life or liberty. They are wrong; very, very wrong.”
Mr. Fareed, who is ISNA’s secretary-general, said such usages are wrong.
“My own take on this is that we tried and failed to stylize this particular onslaught against the United States as one that has religious connotations and regional connotations,” said Mr. Fareed, a former associate professor of Islamic studies at Wayne State University.
“I think this is just criminality, fair and square. We should just call them criminals. You want to call them terrorist criminals, fine,” he said. “But adding the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islamic’ certainly doesn’t help our cause as Americans. It’s counterproductive. It paints an entire community of believers, 1.2 billion in total, in a very negative way. And certainly that’s not something that we want to do.”
ISNA promotes itself as a voice of moderation that seeks Muslim-Jewish reconciliation and campaigns against what it calls “Islamophobia.”
The publication Jewish Week, in an April 2 article, quoted a rabbi as praising ISNA for reaching out to the Jewish community in the United States. “They feel strongly it is time to move forward,” the rabbi said.
Some counterterrorism specialists criticize ISNA for failing to condemn terrorist attacks on Israel.
Steven Emerson, who directs the Investigative Project on Terrorism, recently wrote that the silence of ISNA and other Muslim groups after Hamas killed eight Israeli students “shows their unwillingness to condemn the terrorist act and its glorification.”
Michael Ledeen, a terrorism analyst at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, backed Mr. McCain’s definition of the enemy.
“Islamic terrorism is purely descriptive,” he said. “It doesn’t group the enemy under the Islamic brush stroke because there are plenty of terrorists and extremists who are not Islamic. So it’s just a way of specifying who they are.”
Of ISNA’s criticism, Mr. Ledeen said, “They’re just silly. What a silly thing to say. I talk of Marxist extremists and nationalist extremists. They just don’t want people to say there are Islamic terrorists, which there are. Too bad.”
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McCain is also the ONLY one who calls it what it is. He gets it and understands what we are really up against.
God help us if he doesn’t get elected.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pmhow about fuck you.
Terrorists are Islamic. and they show what islam teaches. the name stays McCain and dont you dare call them anything except for what they are.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:23 pmWould it piss anybody off if he called them “druids” ???
Reality bites, eh there haji?
Get your house in order, or STFU.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pmPoor Islamo-nazis. The misunderstanders of Islamomania are picking on them. Give the little oinkers some kleenex for God’s sake.
Point 1 “When they start calling for Al-Zawahiri and other Islamic jihadists to stop using Islamic texts and teachings to call for violence, maybe they’ll have a case against McCain.”
Point 2 “The Islamic Society of North America was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation jihad terror funding case last summer.”
Point 3 “Also, in a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum outlining its strategic goals for the United States, ISNA was named as one of the groups participating in “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ’sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Conclusion:
“Painting everyone with the same brush? Come on, Mr. Fareed. This is so specious it reeks. As I’ve said many times before, the phrase “Islamic terrorists” no more paints all Muslims as terrorists than the phrase “Italian fascists” paints all Italians as fascists or “Conservative Democrat” paints all conservatives as Democrats. Basic grammar, apparently, must go out the window for the cause of PC mau-mauing. ”
In plain English: bite me oiksters.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pmHey shitferbrains…maybe if your comrades weren’t waging war in the name of their God, there actions wouldn’t be defined by their religion…but guess what, their actions are centered around there religion you fucking victim-card-playing radical islamic apologist fuckhead.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pmBravo for McCain! He gets it. Sticking our heads in the sand and hoping they’ll all just go away isn’t going to happen.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pmhehehe
if terrorists hate him, than I like him-the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pmIslamic Terrorists Suck.
Islamic Terrorists Suck.
Islamic Terrorists Suck.
Islamic Terrorists Suck.
Ad Infinitum.
Islam Sucks.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pmMohammed was a pedophile.
Hey Akbar and Habib FUCK YOU! Clear enough for you?
All the Islamic Muslim organizations in the USA can take a fucking hike. Nazi camel fuckers…
April 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pmstop calling us muslims or we’ll declare we are muslims!
April 21st, 2008 at 6:28 pmfor those of US who have studied Islam, we know that tose fighting the jihad fight in their own way and contribute to it equally whether they blow themselves up or not. The isna’s role is propaganda and Political correctness, portraying those who dont participate in the violence as peaceful. It aint true, if you dont condemn it it nor do you intervene to stop it, you are aterrorrist just the same.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pmAnd this jihad would differ how from whats been going on?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 amMr. Fareed, until there are jews flying planes into buildings in the name of judaism, FUCK YOU!
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Bring it !
September 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm