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I worked in the CIA under Bush. Obama is right to not say "radical Islam."
vox ^

Posted on 06/28/2016 1:32:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The recent verbal attacks by the Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump and his supporters on President Barack Obama for avoiding the phrase "radical Islam" in his public pronouncements are simplistic, racially inflammatory — and flatly misinformed.

Settling upon accurate and strategically nuanced terms to describe the post-9/11 enemy is not the product of "political correctness" (contra Trump) or a failure to understand the enemy (contra a much-discussed Atlantic cover story). Nor are objections to using overly broad terms like "Islamic radicalism" limited to Democrats. The Bush administration understood the power of words, too. It concluded that distinctions that may seem small to Christian-American ears make a big difference to the mainstream Muslims we need on our side.

When I directed the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the CIA in the early 2000s, I frequently interacted with senior Bush administration policymakers about how to engage Muslim communities and, when doing so, which words and phrases to use to best describe the radical ideology preached by al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Always, the aim was to distinguish between radicals and extremists and the vast majority of mainstream Muslims, and to make sure the latter understood that we were not lumping them in with the former.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; cia; emilenakhleh; georgesoros; georgesorosmedia; ips; nakhleh; obama; vox
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1 posted on 06/28/2016 1:32:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s Sharia and radical Islam (Sharia).


2 posted on 06/28/2016 1:34:46 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s right. Bush was a sellout on this too.


3 posted on 06/28/2016 1:34:52 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now we know how Bush got so screwed up.
Friking termites!


5 posted on 06/28/2016 1:35:03 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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racially inflammatory

Islam is now a race?

6 posted on 06/28/2016 1:35:08 PM PDT by glock rocks (Political Correctness is fascism disguised as manners. -- George Carlin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is psychological value in naming your enemy. Moderate Muslims, ie those that claim Islam is a ‘religion of peace’, we should have a common enemy in ISIS/ISIL/any and all Radical Islam. Have we identified the enemy in all previous wars? Of course.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 1:35:35 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Racially inflammatory”?

What race exactly are all Moslems?


8 posted on 06/28/2016 1:36:34 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NWO Political Correctness is Bovine Scatology and has caused nothing but trouble. Nationalism with an iron fist defense policy is what works best with these savages.


9 posted on 06/28/2016 1:37:45 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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Personally, I think it is a good idea to flush them out by insulting them . . . then you know where to shoot. . . .


10 posted on 06/28/2016 1:38:13 PM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I prefer the term “Muslim Scourge” anyway.


11 posted on 06/28/2016 1:39:01 PM PDT by VR-21
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The source of this article — “VOX” — is a far loony left site. Not sure I believe anything I read on VOX.


12 posted on 06/28/2016 1:39:23 PM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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Buck the Fushes.......worthless in government.
Worthless in national security and should have closed our borders immediately after 9/11 attack.


13 posted on 06/28/2016 1:39:37 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: RatRipper

Kinda like RINOs.


14 posted on 06/28/2016 1:39:44 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hated voting for Bush. I hate even worse being right about him.


15 posted on 06/28/2016 1:39:50 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: OriginalChristian

Trust me, they do. Many of them came here to get away from the crazies.

We have Iranian students here and even they aren’t religious. The college girls don’t even wear a hijab. Note: Iranian women are hot.
Most likely to be religious: Kuwaitis. Saudis will build a mosque but not attend it. As best I can tell, Muslims think other Muslims should be religious.


16 posted on 06/28/2016 1:40:14 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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Stick and stone will break my bones
But names will never hurt me.


17 posted on 06/28/2016 1:40:27 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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To: RatRipper

It’s game-calling. Hunters do it all the time.


18 posted on 06/28/2016 1:40:31 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: A CA Guy

I prefer to call it “Medina Islam” and then challenge all the “moderate Muslims” to only adopt the “Mecca Parts of the Quran” and to discard the rest... to become “Mecca Muslims”

No takers yet...


19 posted on 06/28/2016 1:40:37 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One mustn’t inflame one’s enemies....


20 posted on 06/28/2016 1:40:44 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalry)
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