Posted on 02/05/2008 7:30:59 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Last week, a reporter of the Kuwait News Agency accused Sen. John McCain and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of “linking Islam with terrorism as a tool to scare up support among US voters, an election style experts describe as ‘shameful.” ...
Shameful style? Yes, if measured by Islamic standards and not those of American politics and free speech. Last Monday it was reported that the British government has drawn up a new handbook for government officials that forbids them to use phrases like “Islamist extremism” or “jihadi-fundamentalist” -- instead, police and others must refer to “violent extremism” and “criminal murderers or thugs,” so as to avoid giving the impression that anything Islamic is involved in, er, Islamic terrorism.
But over on this side of the pond, some of the presidential candidates haven’t gotten the message. They somehow still think their First Amendment rights exist. Mitt Romney has referred to “jihadism” and “violent, radical Islamic fundamentalism” as “this century’s nightmare,” and has warned that the jihadists want to “unite the world under a single Jihadist caliphate.” Yamour took exception to Mike Huckabee’s (“an ordained Baptist minister”!) statement that Islamo-fascism was “the greatest threat this country has ever faced.” She even bristled at John McCain’s declaration that “I’m not interested in trading with Al-Qaeda.” Apparently the PC police, eager as they are to accommodate easily wounded Muslim sensibilities, will soon have us referring to Osama bin Laden’s network as the “anti-Islamic group,” in the spirit of UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s recent designation of, uh, Islamic terrorism as “anti-Islamic.”
So why would Romney, Huckabee and McCain buck “expert” opinion on this? Are they that desperate for votes, that they would recklessly demonize an entire innocent population? Yamour thinks so: Republicans, she fulminates, are “fiercely attacking Islam as a religion interwoven with terrorism,” and are “targeting evangelical churches and conservative Americans seeking to preserve the strict Christian faith in the government and fear the possibility that the future president may open the door wider for Muslims to enter mainstream society.”
....where did the candidates get this idea in the first place? Where could these desperate, cynical men have gotten the idea that Islam had anything to do with terrorism? Let’s see. Could it have been from Osama bin Laden, who has praised Allah for the Qur’an’s “Verse of the Sword” (9:5), which instructs Muslims to “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”? Or maybe it was from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, who once thundered: “Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you!...
Maybe it was from the British Muslim Omar Brooks, who said in 2005 that it was imperative for Muslims to “instill terror into the hearts of the kuffar” and added: “I am a terrorist. As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist.” Or maybe it was from the Qur’an itself, which tells Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60). Maybe it was from the perpetrators of the 10,000-plus terror attacks committed in the name of Islam since 9/11.
But for the Leftist professor Juan Cole, none of that is relevant. He says that to suggest a connection between Islam and terrorism is not just “shameful,” but “alarming,” because, ....“it presumes the essence of Islam and generalized Muslims, all 1.5 billion of them, as being related to terrorism.” Cole explains: “There are Muslim, Christian, and other terrorists. But the term ‘Islamic terrorist’ suggests there is something about Islam...…
What’s shameful and alarming is that Juan Cole peddles this sort of thinking and anyone takes him seriously. The quotes above illustrate that many Muslims around the world believe that there is “something about Islam.” ...
They are, after all, the ones who destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11, and have wrought so much havoc around the world. If the people who were doing these things were Christians who quoted the Bible to justify their acts of violence, it would be perfectly legitimate to call them Christian terrorists. But they are Muslims who quote the Qur’an to justify their acts of violence, and it is therefore perfectly legitimate for the presidential candidates -- and everyone else -- to call them Islamic terrorists.
If you don’t want Islam linked to terrorism tell fellow Muslims to stop blowing shit up.
Call the waambulance.
And the problem is? Perhaps a pie chart showing the total incidents of terrorism in the past 20 years, along with the segment of that pie that was done by Muslims might alleviate the concern.
Thanks very much for posting, 3AngelaD. HOORAY Robert Spencer!
Any candidate who’s not linking terrorism with Islam is ignorant and dangerous, or pandering for Muslim votes and dangerous.
I have heard it sadi and I agree, “Not all moslems are terroists, but all terrorists are Moslem”....(I know they are muslim, but I like to call them moslems)
There’s no need to link them, they are one and the same.
“all 1.5 billion of them, as being related to terrorism”
Who is saying all Muslims are terrorists? No one that I’ve heard. But to deny any link between Islam and the throat-cutters is ridiculous, especially since they are chanting to Allah while lopping off heads.
Oh, PLEASE!
Islam links ITSELF to terrorism!
Read the mad ravings of the pirate prophet!
Read the Hadiths!
Can you name ANY terrorist act in the last 50 years that wasn’t committed by a proselyte of the polygamist pedophile pirate prophet, mahomet?
Yes, there were a few terror acts committed by Basque, Tamil, and Irish separatists, but can you name them, or even remember them?
They were very, VERY few compared to the thousands upon thousands upon tens of thousands of atrocities committed by mohammedans.
those WACKY candidates!
But no...they go about burning cities, committing "honor" rapes and murder every time some "infidel" dares to call them violent and intolerant.
The irony is completely lost on them.
some apologists point to the rare bombings of abortion clinics by Christians as being Christian terrorism. And they try to draw equivalence between those acts and all of the act of violence in the name of Islam.
Some even bring up Timothy McVeigh. They say he was Christian, he committed terrorism, thus, Christian terrorism is as bad as Islamic terrorism.
And don’t forget, Rosie O’Donnell said that Christian terrorism is as big a threat to us as Islamic terrorism.
Did this ‘source’ happen to mention that everyone (literally) any of us has ever seen speaking from the ME in the past 10 years has publicly, consistently and dramatically stated that they hate America and want to kill Americans???
If McCain and anyone else makes this very OBVIOUS connection, they certainly have the opinion of most of Americas behind them!! PS None of us has made this ‘connection’ on our own... Islam and Islamists have stood on their heads getting it across to us.... well... I for one believe them... they CONVINCED me and LONG before 9/11
IT IS EASY TO EXPLAIN = SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME
islam-ers linked islam to terrorist.
This is a religious war; there is no other acceptible explanation or reason.
Question: do we win ... or loose?
Yeah, it’s really those Amish youths who are causing all the trouble.
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