What Color Is Your Terrorist?
Apparently, terrorists come in a variety of different colors and flavors! In fact, it's possible that, right now, groups of militant Quakers and Tibetan nuns are packing up suitcase nukes in hopes of taking out Chicago. And come on, this is something more people should know!
Inspired, perhaps, by the job-changers' manual, What Color Is Your Parachute? Muslim groups want to change the way people these days have a habit of adding the word "Islamic" before the word "terrorist."
Rowan Scarborough writes for The Washington Times:
A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective "Islamic" to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy.
"We've tried to contact his office, contact his spokesperson to have them rethink word usage that is more acceptable to the Muslim community," Mr. Fareed said. "If it's not our intent to paint everyone with the same brush, then certainly we should think seriously about just characterizing them as criminals, because that is what they are."
An aide to Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who is counting on his pro-Iraq war stance to attract conservative voters, said the senator from Arizona will not drop the word.
Of course, the single best way to stop people from thinking of Muslims when they think of terrorists is for Muslims to speak out against other Muslims murdering people in the name of their religion.
When do you think that is likely to happen? Especially considering how the Koran, a veritable recipe book of death, commands killing the infidel right and left; for example, by cutting off their heads and fingertips.
Would you like flies with that?
via jihadwatch
Islam is the only true religion. Reset your clocks, infidels!
Muslim scientists and clerics: It's time for Mecca Time
They want to replace Greenwich Mean Time with Mecca Time, since, after all, as everyone knows, Mecca is the center of the earth.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020750.php
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 22, 2008 7:56 AM
Fuckin' Gog took the words outta mouth.
It would be amusing if a few of the more devout Muslim nations decided to switch their clocks that way... 'Amusing' in a chaos-'n-rioting, starvation-&-bloodshed kinda way.
I was in Myanmar a few years ago and still have a picture of my wristwatch held up to a town-square clock tower in some coastal village. The clock said 7:03pm and the watch said 7:30pm. Isolated cultures are always living in the past.
Crid at April 22, 2008 9:54 AM
Is there some other kind of terrorist? Last I checked, it was the "religion of peace" that was blowing up buses, shooting up schoolkids (Israeli or muslim, doesn't matter), and threatening all of us non-believers with death.
Me me me me me at April 22, 2008 11:28 AM
it's all a matter of framing. If these characters came out and said, "we demand that these terroristsstop killing people in our name..." THEN they might have a leg to stand on, or they could do something REALLY creative, and ask him to issue a joint statement with them to refer to these people as "extremist islamists" or "jihadi militants". But the condemnation has to come from both...
...unless they are not condemming. For that they can become virgins in hades. You know that's what demons get, right? 72 jihadi virgins for eternity?
SwissArmyD at April 22, 2008 12:02 PM
Seriously - have you not been paying attention?
You say "Of course, the single best way to stop people from thinking of Muslims when they think of terrorists is for Muslims to speak out against other Muslims murdering people in the name of their religion."
I am constantly hearing from Muslims who condemn killing and are horrified that terrorist groups are abusing their religion. It's just that the right wing media never reports on it. Maybe you should get out into the community and do some investigative journalism instead of following some misguided notion that all Muslims advocate murder.
Tom White at April 23, 2008 6:07 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/04/what-color-is-y.html#comment-1542019">comment from Tom White"The right-wing media"? What, Fox News? National Review? The op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal? The Washington Times? Yes, that right-wing media is real vast.
Sorry, I'm not a right winger (nor am I a left-winger), but an atheist who's largely libertarian (except not for open borders) and there's far more liberal lean in the media than anything else. Check out the "40 on 40" piece in the LA Times. Patterico and I are two of the few who aren't thrilled that the police don't ask (or, better yet, rigorously check to see) whether criminals in their "care" are deport-worthy.
If Muslims spoke up, they'd be on TV and doing P.R. The fact that you know three Muslims who are horrified by terrorism (and what civilized person isn't?) isn't the same as "speaking up."
"Maybe you should get out into the community and do some investigative journalism instead of following some misguided notion that all Muslims advocate murder."
The people speaking up, vocally, are few and far between -- Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and a handful of others. Why is this? Because any Muslim or former Muslim who speaks up against Islam to more than their friends has their life in danger.
Read much, Big Tom? I've been reading about Islam since 9-11. It not just condones violence against the infidel (that's us, sweetiepie) it commands it: to convert or kill, or at least tax and humiliate those who aren't Muslims.
You might know three nice Muslims who work at IBM, but in Canada, 12 percent of Muslims polled said it was groovy with them to blow up Parliament and murder the Prime Minister. 12 percent? That's not many, right? No, just 84,000 people.
I'm doing just what I should. Shouting out over the heads of nitwits like you in hopes of getting people to realize the danger to everything we value in our society from Islam.
Amy Alkon at April 23, 2008 6:27 AM
Amy, do you happen to have a reference for that study you quoted? I'm wondering if it was administered just to Muslim's or to a wide variety of people. I'm curious how 12% compares against other "control" groups. Not arguing with the dangers from Islam (it just dawned on me that regularly arguing with Muslim taxi driver's who drive me home, might not be the smartest course of action), just want to know that studies measuring where our internal danger level is at are done scientifically.
moreta at April 23, 2008 8:04 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/04/what-color-is-y.html#comment-1542044">comment from moretaRunning out the door. Google it -- try 12 percent or % and Muslims and Canadian. You'll be able to track it down. Sorry to leave it to you.
PS Even if the study is off a little (and it is an extrapolation to the population at large, as any study is) -- wouldn't 1 percent of Canadian Muslims be too many in this case? Do you think there would be more than five Jews, Christians, or atheists who would say the same thing is justified based on their belief systems? If there are, it's probably just a handful of batshit crazy people. Rabbis and priests are not standing up before their congregations, as far too many imams around the world, announcing that their religion commands the flock to go kill their neighbors who don't think like they do, and/or force them into their particular (evidence-free) belief system.
Amy Alkon at April 23, 2008 8:18 AM
For anyone else interest, I think I found it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/islam/muslim-survey.html A joint study by Environics and CBC. I believe the question was whether Muslim's identified more with Extremists or Moderates, so not one you can readily compare to the general population.
If the question was whether one thought attacking parliment was a good method for political change I am curious what percentage of other belief systems might agree.
I agree our tolerance, pandering and fear to speak out against this shit (that I understand isn't just about political change, but subjugating anyone who doesn't believe) is unacceptable. I also believe that a percentage of any group in a belief system are going to take it to the extreme. 1% wouldn't bother me too much...unless that trend started to increase.
My cab driver Saturday night didn't understand why it made him dangerous that he didn't care too much about this life, but was only interested in the next one. Ug.
moreta at April 23, 2008 10:18 AM
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