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Experts to Obama: ‘Hey, Maybe You Should Call It Islamic Extremism’

Posted on | July 12, 2010 | 11 Comments

Because, you know, that’s what it is:

The Obama administration’s recent move to drop rhetorical references to Islamic radicalism is drawing fire in a new report warning the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists.
Several prominent counterterror experts are challenging the administration’s shift in its recently unveiled National Security Strategy, saying the terror threat should be defined in order to fight it. . . .
In the report, scheduled to be released this week, counterterrorism experts from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy argue that the U.S. could clearly articulate the threat from radical Islamic extremists “without denigrating the Islamic religion in any way.” . . .
[A]dministration officials have said that the use of inflammatory descriptions linking Islam to the terror threat feed the enemy’s propaganda and may alienate moderate Muslims in the U.S.
In the report, which was obtained by The Associated Press, the analysts warn that U.S. diplomacy must sharpen the distinction between the Muslim faith and violent Islamist extremism, identify radicalizers within Islamic communities and empower voices that can contest the radical teachings. . . .
“There is an ideology that is driving al-Qaida and its affiliates,” said Matt Levitt, one of the authors of the study on countering violent extremism.

We already knew that this “Don’t Call It Islamic Terrorism” policy was stupid, but it’s nice to have experts agreeing with common sense.

Category: Terrorism

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11 Responses to “Experts to Obama: ‘Hey, Maybe You Should Call It Islamic Extremism’”

  1. Roman Polanski
    July 12th, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    I did not committ rape rape, so maybe those Islamists do not commit hate hate. Ever think of that?

    That true criminals are the State of California which keeps persecuting me. Figures it is run by a Nazi.

  2. Roman Polanski
    July 12th, 2010 @ 10:47 am

    I did not committ rape rape, so maybe those Islamists do not commit hate hate. Ever think of that?

    That true criminals are the State of California which keeps persecuting me. Figures it is run by a Nazi.

  3. Eric Holder
    July 12th, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

    What?

  4. Eric Holder
    July 12th, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

    What?

  5. ck
    July 12th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

    How about being truthful and just calling it Islam?

  6. ck
    July 12th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

    How about being truthful and just calling it Islam?

  7. The Perversion That Is Islam « The Camp Of The Saints
    July 12th, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

    […] Stacy comments: We already knew that this “Don’t Call It Islamic Terrorism” policy was stupid, but it’s nice to have experts agreeing with common sense. […]

  8. Bob Belvedere
    July 12th, 2010 @ 8:42 pm

    I humbly disagree, Stacy…

    There’s no Common Sense involved in any report that restates the tired old bromide that Islamic terrorism can be separated from the religion of Islam itself:

    …counterterrorism experts from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy argue that the U.S. could clearly articulate the threat from radical Islamic extremists “without denigrating the Islamic religion in any way.”

    No, the U.S. cannot because the two are married to each other in a bond that cannot be torn asunder. Islamic terrorism is part of the obligation of every Muslim to wage Jihad; Jihad, the enslavement and or killing of all non-believers, is one of the basic core beliefs of Islam. All this report does is to widen the blinders a bit, but it still denies the full, complete reality that there can be no reform of Islam without the rejection of The Koran. That causes a bit of a problem, however: if The Koran is rejected, there is no Islam — the ‘religion’ cannot exist without it’s dogma.

    It is about time many of us wake up to the fact that, since the time the obviously mad Mohammed created this idolatry of himself, Islam has been a curse on the world. It, in and of itself, has contributed nothing positive and only brought about the deaths and enslavement of millions under a false god. Allah is a perversion of the God of Abraham. Islam is evil incarnate. And anyone who compromises with evil will pay a great price.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    July 12th, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

    I humbly disagree, Stacy…

    There’s no Common Sense involved in any report that restates the tired old bromide that Islamic terrorism can be separated from the religion of Islam itself:

    …counterterrorism experts from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy argue that the U.S. could clearly articulate the threat from radical Islamic extremists “without denigrating the Islamic religion in any way.”

    No, the U.S. cannot because the two are married to each other in a bond that cannot be torn asunder. Islamic terrorism is part of the obligation of every Muslim to wage Jihad; Jihad, the enslavement and or killing of all non-believers, is one of the basic core beliefs of Islam. All this report does is to widen the blinders a bit, but it still denies the full, complete reality that there can be no reform of Islam without the rejection of The Koran. That causes a bit of a problem, however: if The Koran is rejected, there is no Islam — the ‘religion’ cannot exist without it’s dogma.

    It is about time many of us wake up to the fact that, since the time the obviously mad Mohammed created this idolatry of himself, Islam has been a curse on the world. It, in and of itself, has contributed nothing positive and only brought about the deaths and enslavement of millions under a false god. Allah is a perversion of the God of Abraham. Islam is evil incarnate. And anyone who compromises with evil will pay a great price.

  10. Rorschach
    July 13th, 2010 @ 5:20 pm

    I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as a “moderate” muslim. There are Muslims that have not openly supported terror, but they support a religious organization that does wholeheartedly. They are un-indicted co-conspirators and accessories after the fact.

  11. Rorschach
    July 13th, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

    I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as a “moderate” muslim. There are Muslims that have not openly supported terror, but they support a religious organization that does wholeheartedly. They are un-indicted co-conspirators and accessories after the fact.