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Homeland Security Chief: We won’t call Chattanooga ‘Islamic terrorism’ out of respect for Muslims
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198858#.Vbt0yZOrQvp ^ | July 31 2015

Posted on 08/01/2015 9:21:32 PM PDT by Whenifhow

Why won’t the Obama administration call Fort Hood Islamic Terrorism? Why aren’t they calling Chattanooga Islamic Terrorism? Because it’s disrespect to Muslims and Islam is about peace:

ARUTZ SHEVA – Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson announced the policy this past Friday at Aspen Institute’s annual security forum in Washington, D.C. He explained that though it was a Muslim terrorist who shot to death four unarmed Marines in Tennessee two weeks ago, the government will call the attack, and other similar ones, “violent extremism” and not “Islamic terrorism” – out of respect for the Muslim community.

Johnson said it is “critical” to refrain from the “Islamic” label in order to “build trust” among Muslims.

The Tennessee murderer, Mohammad Abdulazeez, is officially a “homegrown violent extremist,” according to the government – even though he blogged about his Islamic religious motivations for the attack. He and his family also attended a local mosque controlled by a terror-tied Islamic trust.

Johnson explained that if officials called Islamic terrorism “Islamic,” they’d “get nowhere” in gaining the “cooperation” of the Muslim community.

The moderator of the panel tried to protest: “Isn’t [the] government denying the fundamental religious component of this kind of extremism by not using the word Islamic?”

“I could not disagree more,” Johnson responded, and explained that Islam “is about peace.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulazeez; bhodhs; chattanooga; dhs; islamic; jehjohnson; jihadinamerica; tennessee; terrorism
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To: Gritty
...Islam “is about peace.”

Islam is about SUBMISSION, not peace.

61 posted on 08/02/2015 10:28:21 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: xrmusn
So, the next time a crazy fool shoots up a church, ‘THEY’ will be extra careful to not blame ALL Whites for the attack.

Does this mean the Battle Flag is okay again?

63 posted on 08/02/2015 2:24:25 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Whenifhow

Respect for Mooselimbs will be the death of us all.


64 posted on 08/02/2015 5:01:50 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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