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| 2002-06-16 |
| Corsair points to this on the Lou Dobbs tempest... A poll conducted last night gave viewers the chance to select the name they preferred: 24 percent chose "war on terror"; 74 percent favored "war on Islamists." "We are fighting a war against extreme, radical Muslims, who are trying to destroy us, our society, our economy, our way of life. They're called Islamists not Muslims or Islamics, Islamists. They are the enemy," Mr. Dobbs said on his show Wednesday night. Not surprisingly, Muslim groups [especially Islamist Muslim groups!]were not pleased by his comments. But an aide to Mr. Dobbs said his statements generated more than a thousand calls from viewers, most of them favorable. Ibrahim Hooper, a Muslim and spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said yesterday that Mr. Dobbs "has taken the definition of Islamist from bigots and is trying to apply it to the war on terror... The bigots of the world say if you are an Islamist, you want to kill all who are non-Islamist. They define almost every Muslim activist as an Islamist." Hooper's the guy who wears the 32C brassiere cup on his head. It doesn't take a bigot to make that observation. All y'gotta do is read the papers. If you read the Arab papers, you come to that conclusion quicker than if you read the Merkin papers, or even if you watch Lou Dobbs. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |