Dubious company

The Washington Times ^ | June 22, 2004 | Frank J. Gaffney

[neverdem]

Last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in the Bush administration's latest outreach to members of the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities. Unfortunately, as with virtually every one of the administration's previous efforts of this kind, those embraced by Mr. Powell are part of the problem -- not the solution -- in the war of ideas that is at the heart of the war on terror.

[happygrl]

I'm glad Frank is relentlessly speaking out on this issue.

This is one area where I depart company with our President.

Collaborating with these organizations is only going to come back and bite this administration on the b***.

[ovrtaxt]

Gaffney bump! He's right about this.

[kcvl]

Lt. Gen. William Boykin, a top Pentagon intelligence official, apologized for remarks he made about Muslims, including saying that radical Muslims hate the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and roots are Judeo-Christian and the enemy is a guy named Satan."

AWAD: How would I trust someone who looks at Islam and at Muslims as idol worshippers, and allow me to put one point of education here because it is very important: Islam is a monotheistic religion.

God in Islam is the same god as in Christianity and as in Judaism. ... the word in the bible in Arabic says Allah, so we worship the same god. With this level of ignorance that exists within a high official who is conducting the war on terrorism, I don't trust his judgment to make life and death decisions.