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Carey: Drop 'Islamic terror' tag ( Call it Buddism terrorism, Maybe)
The term Islamic should be dropped when referring to terrorists in a bid to foster better relations between the West and Islam, Lord Carey says.| I'll be happy to stop using the term...just as soon as the terrs stop ululating "Allahu Akbar" as they triumphantly hold up the severed head for the video camera. |
| Hokay, Mr. Carey, how 'bout "Islamofascist"? |
The former ArchDruid bishop of Canterbury said removing the word would "deprive a terrorist of his religious legitimacy".| The Allenists have no legitimacy, religious or otherwise. Period. |
It would also send a clear message to "the average Muslim" that they were not being blamed for terrorist attacks.| The "average Muslim" has said remarkably little about the terror being committed in Allan's name. I'm not sure if it's because they agree, or because they're scared of the Izlamonuts too. |
His comments come after Muslim leaders expressed concern about a growing gulf between the Islamic world and the West. Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has warned that linking international terrorism and Islam was damaging. "There is an urgent need to stop tarnishing the Muslim world by unfair stereotypes," he told the United Nations this week.| And the solons at the UN stroked their long, flowing beards and piously agreed. |
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has also said there is an "iron curtain" falling between the Islamic world and the West.| Note to Perv: That's not a bad idea. The security fence in Israel is working quite well. So well that Jordan is getting nervous that the intifada might start coming their way... |
However, Lord Carey said that while there was a divide, he wanted to resist using such a serious phrase as "iron chador" "iron curtain". "There is a lot of hope in the situation, but I certainly want to say the situation is serious. We must do more about it, and it's a question of everyone pulling together," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He had begun a personal campaign "to challenge anyone who talks about Islamic terrorists", Lord Carey added. "I think we have to drop the word Islamic because in so doing we deprive the terrorist of his religious legitimacy. He wants religious justification for his evil deeds, and we shouldn't give it to him," Lord Carey said.| Give, don't give...whatever. The terrs tell us over and over that these acts are God's will. You'd best recognize the danger you're in and label it accurately. |
"And second, by dropping Islamic before terrorist we are taking a lot of pressure off the average Muslim who simply doesn't want to be portrayed as a fellow murderer."| Fetch me my violin. The really really tiny one. |
| Wanna borrow my femtoviolin? |
He said he accepted that the problems in the Middle East and Iraq had to be addressed, "but it would help the building of bridges if we helped the average Muslim to understand that we are blaming Israel not blaming Islam for this".| I've watched my fellow citizens be murdered and mutilated and desecrated by the thousands, all in the name of Islam. Where is my bridge? Why do I have to "reach out", to "understand"? I deeply resent being labeled kufr and infidel, being lied to in the guise of taqiyya, and hudna. I'm actually angry that I even know these terms |
."We're blaming that tiny, tiny minority of people who are using Islam as a weapon to get their own back against the West and to undermine all we're trying to do." Lord Carey reiterated his call for Muslims to denounce terrorism more often. "Terrorists are very evil people and I want to hear Muslims say that more and more," he said.
Posted by: tipper 2004-09-29 |
