Posted on 08/03/2007 7:30:00 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Action: Contact the Giuliani Presidential Committee
GIULIANI TO DEMS: USE THE WORDS 'ISLAMIC TERRORISTS'
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani took Democratic White House hopefuls to task Monday for being soft on terrorists and hard on capitalism.
Speaking to an invited audience of about 100 local GOP members, the former New York mayor said he was concerned that if a Democrat wins the White House the nation would take a defensive stance in "the war on terror" and become more vulnerable to a domestic attack.
"At no time during their three debates have they used the words 'Islamic terrorists,'" Giuliani said of the Democratic contenders who as he spoke were debating at The Citadel military college in South Carolina. "If they do tonight, I will take credit for it."
ACTION: CONTACT THE GIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE
CONTACT the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee to express your concerns about his promotion of linking the faith of Islam to terrorism.
CONTACT: (As always, be POLITE.)
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
295 Greenwich St, #371, New York, NY 10007
Tel: 212-835-9449, 646-943-7890
E-mail: webteam@joinrudy2008.com
FOR BACKGROUND ON THIS ISSUE, SEE:
http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=44621&theType=NB
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Don’t they know this will only contribute to the G-man’s support?
They must be very worried about the G-man.
It’s not a matter of faith. The linkage is to the life of Mo’ and to the “religious” texts.
CAIR, and it’s 1900 members might just put Rudy over the top.
Silly jihadists
Democrat Rudi is now campaigning in the Dim party against their candidates. That’s where he belongs.
Here’s CAIR’s link:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
CAIR Backgrounder: Islam Has No Ties to Terrorism
Source: The Miami Herald
CAIR: ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM
[Parvez Ahmed is chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.]
Five years into President Bush’s declaration of the “global war on terrorism,” the latest State Department report shows a 25 percent increase in worldwide terrorist attacks over the previous year. Terrorism is an abominable tactics, not an ideology. Thus declaring “war” against it, while politically expeditious, is in reality temerarious, as it only attacks the symptom without addressing the cause.
Global patterns show that terrorism is not exclusive to any one group. Between 1980 and 2003, the world’s leader in suicide terrorism has been the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a group that recruits from the predominantly Hindu Tamil population in Sri Lanka. According the Terrorism Knowledge Base (tkb.org), between 1968 and 2007, the largest purveyors of terrorism have been groups affiliated with communist/socialist or nationalist/separatist ideology.
Despite this, Islam continues to be conflated with terrorism.
The intertwining of political rhetoric with religious imagery by groups like al Qaeda certainly precipitates the notion of some intrinsic link between Islam and terrorism.
This perception is greatly assisted by a veritable cottage industry of neo-experts pontificating with great certainty about the cause-effect relationship between Islam and terrorism. Such mischaracterization is at odds with the reality that Islam unequivocally condemns terrorism and advocates the preservation of life, honor and dignity of all human life as a supreme endeavor. Thus, terrorism even when carried out in the name or defense of Islam cannot be called jihad but is rather an unholy war. Robert Pape in his seminal work Dying to Win contends that military occupation, not religious ideology, is the primary enabler of terrorism.
Douglas Streusand and Harry Tunnell of the National Defense University in a recent paper argue that characterizing terrorism committed by Muslims as “Islamic” alienates billions of peace loving Muslims worldwide. Using terms like jihadist to describe terrorist misrepresent legitimate Islamic concepts of jihad, which to most Muslims mean striving for good. Calling terrorists jihadists also legitimizes an un-Islamic activity in the eyes of the disenfranchised Muslims, thus aiding recruitment. Developing an alternative vocabulary is a necessary but not sufficient step towards addressing the problem of terrorism.
The State Department report cites continued instability in Iraq as one of the major reasons for the increases in terrorist acts. Terrorism is indeed a consequence of wars of choice such as Iraq, but it also has historic links to other wars of necessity such as the Cold War.
During the Cold War, U.S. financing, recruitment and arming of foreign fighters to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan led not only to Soviet retreat but also its demise. However, the enabling of a culture of drugs to finance the war and the deliberate injection of religious rhetoric to motivate recruits had unintended consequences. Compounding the problem, unlike post World War II Europe, no Marshall Plan was enacted to rebuild Afghanistan where out of a population of roughly 15 million, a million Afghans had died, an additional 1 ½ million were maimed, and five million had become refugees. Amid this death and destruction, with a country littered in drugs and guns, violence became law enabling terrorists to carve out safe havens.
Failed states, like occupations, can also breed and incubate terrorism.
To contain terrorism, if not eliminate it, the way forward is to engage in common-sense methods of intelligence gathering without criminalizing entire groups of people, military strategies without resorting to indiscriminate bombings and enabling the emergence of democratic and civic societies by eliminating foreign occupations. Addressing grievances cannot automatically be dismissed as appeasement. Britain succeeded in disarming the IRA by engaging them, not ignoring its demands. In fact, the conversion of terrorist groups into peaceful political movements has often occurred when their rationale for violence ceased to exist.
In a recent Washington Post article, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, called upon moderates, including Muslims, to from a global alliance “to terminate the political conflicts that spawn terrorism.” This alliance is only possible when American foreign policy changes course to reflect America’s values of liberty and justice for all, with an unwavering commitment to dialogue and diplomacy.
Oh the nerve!!!!
Prediction: The more CAIR goes after him, the more his support grows.(not really going out on a limb with that prediction)
“ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM”
BWWAAAAHHAHHHAHHHAAAHHHAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAA
Its true....not all muslims are terrorists....But its also true that 99 percent of terrorists are Muslim.
Hard to believe it’s taken this long for someone to say this. Somehow I don’t think this will be presented by the DBM.
Good try, CAIR, but you won’t trick me into supporting Giuliani that way.
At least he’s the only one with a pair big enough to state the obvious.
Other funny statements:
"John Edwards cares for the little guy"
"Hussein Obama would make a brilliant President"
"Hillary is a caring, humble woman with a soul"
Oh, so the 9/11 terrorists were Presbyterians...
OK.
Really? I thought they were Mormons. ;-)
Rudy’s got this right.
ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
COMMUNIST CHINA/CUBA
HOMOSEXUAL
Word hijacking drives me right up the wall. It’s so incredibly dishonest.
Did his campaign pay CAIR to go after him? (It would be a smart move.)
Man! Rudy couldn’t PAY for this kind of endorsement!
I don’t like Rudy Giuliani, but if he were wise he would give the same response to CAIR that these people did.
http://www.meforum.org/press/1716
Brit Hume reported last night on Fox News that the YAF told CAIR that they “would not be intimidated” by them, and they could “go to Hell and take their 72 virgins with them!”
LOL. Cair is going to more for Guilianna among conservatives than anyone else could . . .
Meanwhile Mitt Romney just said that Hamas has social programs we should emulate . . .
Guilianna up, Romney down.
Go Hunter.
In other words, CAIR said "go pound sand". This would be funny if it weren't deadly serious.
I will say this: I don't support Giuliani, but he does have the WOT right.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Maybe that’s because CAIR considers what we call Terrorism to be Jihad. Maybe we should call it Jihad too.
If the religion fits!
CAIR IS a racist, terrorist supporting SMALL organization.
PaleoPaulie won’t be inviting you over to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
Helps make me take a more positive view of him, for sure.
“his promotion of linking the faith of Islam to terrorism”
Islam IS the problem. It is a wicked vile religion invented by a square head, murderous pig named Mohammad.
LOL
Christ warned us of the coming false prophets...and sure nough....Mohammed showed up right on schedule.
Yeah, whatever. I’m not that threatened when someone I don’t support says or does the right thing.
It just did. Maybe I’ll re-assess my views of him.
Anybody the Muzzies hate has to have something good going for him.
Called and thanked Rudy for living in reality.
CAIR is going to learn the hardway that this isn’t France where only 3% of the population goes to church anymore.
They won't get their dream of paleoPaulie in our White House aurrounded by his cowardly platoon of Islamofascist loving ostriches and appeasers.
They won't get to have Rudy who is too liberal to ever smell a GOP nomination and too easy a foil for the Islamofascisti. Imagine the photographs circulating worldwide of cross-dressing Rudy at the pervert fundraiser, with the powdered and rouged face, the fake beauty mark, and the ballet dress. To Iran's would be holocaust maker, Ahmanutjob: Sorry, Mohammed, the GOP isn't stupid enough to let Rudy anywhere near the White House.
When Arthur Branch prosecutes Ahmanutjob, Osama bin Laden and their many pals, he won't be using leftist lawyers like Jack McCoy but the military forces of the United States and any other nations that care to take a share in the destruction of the Islamofascisti.
Wrong, it was a rouge Amish Sect /S
CAIR-Crappy A@$ Islam Rhetoric
BTW - some just support terrorism, like CAIR. Laking the jihadist jewels these cowards wouldn't lift a finger to stop terrorism they rather like that true orthodox Muslims will kill so they don't have to.
CAIR should love Rudy! Terrorist want to die for the cause and He wants them dead. A marriage made in heaven - now if Rudy can only be faithful to this marriage.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875627/posts
Hamas IS a terrorist organization, by virtue of their classification by the US as such and by virtue of their own charter.
Therefore, CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the "terror support trial" of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials, is unquestionably, a terrorist supporting organization.
Hey CAIR, sometimes the truth hurts . . . .
Melanie Phillips' Londonistan describes how muslims have cowed British politicians and why the PM won't go beyond generic "terrorism".
Giuliani booted Arafat from Lincoln Center--Mrs. Clinton had Arafat as her guest more than any other.
A gift from the East!
They should first work on indoor pluming then worry about world domination!
Good for them! I’m glad somebody still has some guts.
Perhaps, but the vast majority of terrorists have ties to Islam. They commit their terrorist acts in the name of Allah, the Islamic diety. They are obeying the commands in Islamic religious texts, including the Koran itself.
But Islam has no ties to them? Riiight.
I’ve always thought that. I would just prefer to have someone who is also a conservative. Like Fred.
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