Posted on 07/18/2007 5:25:45 AM PDT by period end of story
A Muslim civil rights group yesterday blamed the Bush administration for promoting "Islamophobia" and said the "war on terror" won't stop terrorists.
"The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself," said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot eradicate it by declaring a war against it. The war on terror is causing us infinitely more harm than the terrorists could have ever imagined."
Mr. Ahmed, who spoke at a CAIR symposium at the National Press Club, said the war against terrorists is driven by an "irrational" fear that the Bush administration has inculcated in the American public. The chance of being killed in a terrorist attack, he said, is 1 in 80,000 over a lifetime.
"It is important to bear in mind that terrorists cannot destroy America," he said, appearing on a panel discussing the symposium theme, "Attacking Islam: Implications for Social Cohesion and U.S. Relations with the Muslim World." The U.S., he said, is too powerful and too resourceful for terrorists to defeat.
The Bush administration's policies in Iraq have driven a deep wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States, he said.
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...and the chances of a Muslim-American being killed as a result of islamophobia are considerably less than that.
In fact, Muslim-Americans being killed by Muslims is the problem he should actually be speaking about. Islamic terrorists are an Islamic problem. If Muslims would take care of their own internal problems, we wouldn't have to take care of it for them.
The American people are sick and tired of having the adherents of a medieval death cult lecture us about the policies of the most open, most free, most tolerant nation the world has ever known. If you want to live in the dark ages: Move to the tribal areas of Pakistan. We're Not interested here.
CAIR is as “American” as female circumcision. If there are patriotic Muslim’s who want to reform their “religion” then they should stop letting these thugs speak in their name. I’m not holding my breath.
Isn’t a “phobia” defined as an
UNREASONABLE
fear of something?
What’s unreasonable about being suspicious of Islam?
No, no!
The muslims abhor violence, I mean, CAIR launched an online petition back in May 2004 called Not in the Name of Islam so that Muslims worldwide could rise up in one voice to denounce terrorism..
Just go to http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?15103374 and see the massive response over the past three years from the billions of Muslims across the globe..
No, no, no. GW thinks they are the religion of peace. Don’t even give him any credit for stirring the post against islam. The american people are waking up slowly to their singleminded lying cult. The battle cry should have been and should be death to islam.
CUCK FAIR!!!!!!!!
This is the thanks the White House gets for bending over backwards to be “nice” to these people, and, yes, pandering to them. Muslims out of U.S. now, with CAIR’s members the first to go.
CAIR would blame the World Trade Centers....if they were still there.
Mr. Keene said that CAIR has attacked as "anti-Muslim" a number of publications, including The Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Tampa Tribune, the New Republic magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Weekly Reader, a popular newspaper for schoolchildren.
"My hope and belief was that this event was going to be an open discussion," he said in a brief interview after the symposium. "It was what I said in my speech. You don't restrict access because someone disagrees with you."
Mr. Keene had better watch his back.
Didn't the Administration put them on notice?
Pretty well summed-up!LOL!
I’m getting tired of the liberal approach to adding the suffic “phobia” to everything. Phobia means - I believe - fear. What I have for islam (small i very much intended) is absolute disgust. May pig s**t be on the prophet and the horse he rode in on.
‘So what is CAIR afraid of?”
Extinction. Membership continues to fall as well financing.
President Bush referring to Islam as the “Religion of Peace” sure won him a lot of Muslim friends, didn’t it? /s
Good find!
They don’t even exist in my world. Only terrorists CAIR what they think.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something. Since near 100% of terrorism is carried out by muslims, and supported by far too many “moderate muslims,” I’d say our fear is completely rational.
It’s not a phobia when someone is actually trying to bomb you!
I don’t have islamophobia.
I have islamocontempt.
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