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BROWN: DON'T SAY TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS
Daily Express ^
| July 4, 2007
| Macer Hall
Posted on 07/04/2007 9:21:23 AM PDT by NCjim
Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word Muslim in connection with the terrorism crisis.
The Prime Minister has also instructed his team including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that the phrase war on terror is to be dropped.
The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more consensual tone than existed under Tony Blair.
However, the change provoked claims last night that ministers are indulging in yet more political correctness.
The sudden shift in tone emerged in comments by Mr Brown and Ms Smith in the wake of the failed attacks in London and Glasgow.
Mr Browns spokesman acknowledged yesterday that ministers had been given specific guidelines to avoid inflammatory language.
There is clearly a need to strike a consensual tone in relation to all communities across the UK, the spokesman said. It is important that the country remains united.
He confirmed that the phrase war on terror strongly associated with Mr Blair and US President George Bush has been dropped.
Officials insist that no direct links with Muslim extremists have been publicly confirmed by police investigating the latest attempted terror attacks. Mr Brown himself did not refer to Muslims or Islam once in a BBC TV interview on Sunday. Ms Smith also avoided any such reference in her statement to MPs yesterday.
She said: Let us be clear terrorists are criminals, whose victims come from all walks of life, communities and religions. Terrorists attack the values shared by all law-abiding citizens. As a Government, as communities, as individuals, we need to ensure that the message of the terrorists is rejected.
Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: I dont know what purpose is served by this. I dont think we need pussyfoot around when talking about terrorism.
But former Tory homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: This is quite a smart idea. We know that the vast majority of Muslims are not involved in terrorism and we have to accept there are sensitivities about these matters.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1984; britain; gordonbrown; newspeak; terrorism
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Unreal...
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:21:24 AM PDT
by
NCjim
To: NCjim
In case anyone wonders why the Brits are in the toilet bowl!
To: NCjim
The Prime Minister has also instructed his team including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that the phrase war on terror is to be dropped. The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more consensual tone than existed under Tony Blair. This clown will fold within three months.
3
posted on
07/04/2007 9:24:25 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: NCjim
Can a Home Secretary named Jacqui Smith be tough on terrorists?
4
posted on
07/04/2007 9:24:56 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: NCjim
Don’t anyone say that Brown has a brain! Sheeze!
5
posted on
07/04/2007 9:24:58 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: NCjim
As if this will make everything alllll better. Head meet sand.
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
tsmith130
To: NCjim
Keep watch. This is what a surrender looks like.
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:26:49 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
To: NCjim
Sounds like he’s trying to avoid scenes of 100’s of car fires like in Paris.
But he’d better come up with some stronger language for the enemy he’s facing.
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:27 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: NCjim
The words of a quisling...
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:30 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
To: NCjim
Like the US until the British stop honoring the enemy it’s gonna be hard to defeat them. GW is running around in his socks( instead of stuffing papers from the national archives which every one knows is their main purpose) so as not to offend and now this politically correct BS.
10
posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:40 AM PDT
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: Cicero
She looks about as tough as a blancmange. Whipped puppy dog eyes.
Maybe it's a bad pic.
11
posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:43 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: NCjim
"The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims..."
It's important to be on the good side of your new masters.
12
posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:58 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: NCjim
Winston Churchill is rotating in his grave and crying blood, sweat and tears.
13
posted on
07/04/2007 9:27:58 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(UN delenda est.)
To: NCjim
God help Great Britain for it seems the British aren’t up to it any more.
14
posted on
07/04/2007 9:28:12 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: All
Brown is no Tony Blair, and soon the Brits, if not already, will know you cannot appease someone who is killing your countrymen, trashing your infrastructure and trying to capture your soverignity. These MUSLIM ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, are doing just that in the United Kingdom and will continue to until some kills them. Brown says the vast majority of Muslims are not killers. That is exactly what these terrorist MUSLIMS are telling us, yet they use their temples to store explosives and the to find and teach their young men to kill, and strap explosives to the bodies of their children and send them into the marketplace.
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:28:25 AM PDT
by
cousair
To: NCjim
The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more consensual tone than existed under Tony Blair.
However, the change provoked claims last night that ministers are indulging in yet more political correctness.
Appeasement by western politicians has been and will continue to embolden Islam to dominate England and the world. Below is an article explaining this problem.
Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, June 20, 2002
WASHINGTON A leader of the small worldwide Muslim reform movement is warning the West against wishful thinking as the U.S. government promotes an intensive dialogue with Islam.
"The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other," Bassam Tibi said Tuesday in an interview with United Press International.
Syrian-born Tibi, who claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed and teaches political science at Goettingen University in Germany, appealed for intellectual honesty in these exchanges.
This Is 'Peace'?
"First, both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms these mean different things to each of them. The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam or 'House of Islam' to the entire world," explained Tibi, who is also a research scholar at Harvard University.
"This is completely different from the Enlightenment concept of eternal peace that dominates Western thought, a concept developed by Immanuel Kant," an 18th-century philosopher.
This Is 'Tolerance'?
"Similarly, when Muslims and the Western heirs of the Enlightenment speak of tolerance they have different things in mind. In Islamic terminology, this term implies abiding non-Islamic monotheists, such as Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, as second-class believers. They are 'dhimmi,' a protected but politically immature minority."
According to Tibi, the quest of converting the entire world to Islam is an immutable fixture of the Muslim worldview. Only if this task is accomplished, if the world has become a "Dar al-Islam," will it also be a "Dar a-Salam," or a house of peace.
Tibi appealed to his co-religionists to "revise their understanding of peace and tolerance by accepting pluralism." Furthermore, he said, Muslim leaders should give up the notion of Jihad in the sense of conquest, as opposed to Jihad as an internal struggle of the individual.
Liberal Mush
Tibi's advice comes at a time when the U.S. government is urging American Muslim leaders to promote understanding for the United States in Islamic regions. To Tibi, this is more of a diplomatic endeavor than the promotion of a more profound theological understanding between Islam and the Judeo-Christian worldview prevalent in the West.
But Muzammil Siddiqi, one senior Islamic scholar the State Department consults with, told UPI he found that his efforts in furthering contacts between Muslim, Christian and Jewish theologians were having some success.
Indian-born Siddiqi is the director of the large Islamic Center of Orange County in California. In consultation with the State Department and in cooperation with the University of Kentucky, he traveled back and forth between the United States and the Middle East trying to convince Muslim theologians and jurists to meet with American church leaders.
"I have found that many, though not all, were ready to welcome visitors from America and also to come here to explore with Christians and Jews what we have in common," Siddiqi said.
Though Siddiqi's center is heavily engaged in interfaith activities, he made it clear that to him, as indeed for conservative Christians, syncretism the mixing of religions was anathema.
Common values should be sought out, he explained, and the equality of all believers respected, be they Muslims, Christians, Hindus or Buddhists. But the purity of the faith must not be compromised.
In an article in the prestigious Hamburg weekly Die Zeit, Tibi gave anecdotal evidence of how daunting a task this dialogue with Islam can be.
Staring in Horror at the Bible
The bishop of Hildesheim in Germany paid an imam a courtesy visit in his mosque. The imam handed the Catholic prelate a Koran, which he joyfully accepted. But when the bishop tried to present the imam with a Bible, the Muslim cleric just stared at him in horror and refused to even touch Christianity's holy book.
"The bishop was irritated because he perceived this behavior as a gross discourtesy," wrote Tibi, "but the imam had only acted according to his faith. For if an imam gives a bishop a Koran, he considers this a Da'Wa, or call to Islam."
This, explained Tibi, must be borne in mind when one engages in a dialogue with Muslim "scholars," for it corresponds to a verse in the Koran: "And say ... to those who are unlearned: 'Do ye submit yourselves?'" (Surah 3:20).
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:28:47 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
To: NCjim
thought police at it again.
17
posted on
07/04/2007 9:29:23 AM PDT
by
television is just wrong
(Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.take the get)
To: NCjim
Obviously Brown hasn't gone far enough. Just call the terrorists
Fluffy Pink Bunnies so no one will get scared!
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:30:06 AM PDT
by
inkling
(exurbanleague.com)
To: ExTexasRedhead
The terrorists commit suicide with bombs, and we commit suicide with PC.
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:30:28 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: NCjim
So, he’s banned stating the (pertinent) facts, eh?
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posted on
07/04/2007 9:30:50 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com. Please note: Hillary is a hag.)
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