Posted on 11/04/2005 5:55:17 AM PST by SJackson
"We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam," declared Condoleezza Rice, addressing assembled Muslim dignitaries at the annual Ramadan dinner at the State Department — and provoking a second, consecutive examination in this column of the rhetoric of the most important US official next to the president.
The secretary of state's annual Ramadan dinner at the State Department is not to be confused with the president's annual Ramadan dinner at the White House, although it's easy to get mixed up. The legacy of September 11 has left us with: an open-ended war abroad; the introduction of homeland hyper-insecurity; and the open-ended introduction of Ramadan celebrations all over official Washington. Which is worth a question or two on its own, beginning with: "Why"? Why has it become the post-September 11 function of the U.S. government to celebrate Ramadan? The buzzword of "Muslim outreach" comes to mind, but, as the Judeo-Christian culture hit by Islamikazes on September 11, haven't we got it exactly backward? That is, wouldn't Muslims better outreach themselves if the Saudi Embassy, for example, celebrated Christmas and Hanukah?
But I digress. Getting back to Miss Rice's shindig, Ramadan wouldn't be Ramadan without Nihad Awad, the executive director of the notorious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His invitation alone deserves separate mention — and maybe an investigation into whether security concerns arose over bringing into the State Department someone from a Hamas-linked group boasting five current or former officials arrested, convicted or deported on terrorism-related charges. Oh well. In the holiday spirit, let's just recall, as bestselling author Robert Spencer did at www.jihadwatch.com, the words of CAIR's former board chairman, Omar Ahmad: "Islam isn't in American to be equal to any other faiths, but to be dominant."
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Christians and Jews need look no further than the Temple Mount to see the benevolence at the heart of Islam. I challenge Ms Rice to visit the rock atop Mt Moriah where Abraham prepared to offer Isaac in sacrifice to God...and to carry her Bible with her when she does.
..."We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam," declared Condoleezza Rice,..
Idiot.
I would not have been able to stand up there and spout this bunch of BS.
"the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam"
If only we would have had such dinners celebrating Nazi-ism, I'm sure WWII could have been averted. /S
When you're trying to establish a democracy in a Muslim country, it probably kind of helps if your public rhetoric about Muslims stresses the positive.
Do you think it would help our mission in Iraq if Rice called Islam an evil death cult?
Think about it.
She couldn't have read the Koran and come to that conclusion.
Moderate Muslims are to me, people who don't understand the basic tenets of their own religion and apparently haven't read the Koran through. Also there is a reluctance on some Muslim's part to get blood on their hands. - Tom
On the menu in Washington is the Saudis favorite dish: Wahhabi Rice.
It's unfortunate about Condi, I used to think of her as the Hillary-antidote - no more.
It even calls into question her entire tenure as NSA. Either that or it's hard for me to believe that she believes anything she says that is pro-Islam.
Either way, it's not good. I wonder if she realizes that this kind of rhetoric is sealing her fate as a Republican, and that she has no chance of getting elected as a Dem.
...Do you think it would help our mission in Iraq if Rice called Islam an evil death cult?...
The truth shall set you free.
Lying to yourself will turn you French.
Yeah, I wonder how much longer our official position will be to pretend that Islam isn't really at war against western civilization.
Actually, it comes across as appeasement.
I think someone put pods under Condi's and W's beds...
Some how the deafening silence from the Muslim world we heard after 9-11, the lack of any responce to video taped murders of innocent civilians done in the name of Islam and the luke warm apologies for homicide bombings better show the true benevolence that is at the heart of Islam.
STOP IT! You're ruining a perfectly good bash Islam thread for everyone.
"Japanese are great pilots" -FDR at the annual Death March dinner, White House, Dec, 1943.
In that parallel universe of yours.
Do you think it is?
Moderate Muslims are to me, people who don't understand the basic tenets of their own religion and apparently haven't read the Koran through.
http://www.arabsforisrael.com/pages/1/index.htm
http://www.mideastweb.org/salah01.htm
http://www.infid.be/nurcholis_madjid.htm
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477166/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488432/posts
I wouldn't characterize this as a "good" Islam bashing thread. It's just passable. The good threads have pictures of the WTC and beheadings and Paris burning and dead Israelis and burnt to a crisp American contractors in Iraq and .....
I won't even get into the really good and great threads.
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