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War on Words: CAIR Asks Journalists to Stop Using the Term ‘Islamist’
National Communications Director of Council on American-Islamic Relations Ibrahim Hooper during a news conference at CAIR’s Washington, D.C. in 2010. (Getty Images)
The Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking the nation’s media to make this their new year’s resolution: Stop using the word “Islamist.”
Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s communications director, explained in a Jan. 3 op-ed why his group is upset the Associated Press added the term to its latest stylebook, a document that guides reporters worldwide. Hooper wrote:
That entry reads: “Islamist — Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi.”
The AP says it sought input from Arabic-speaking experts and hoped to provide a neutral perspective by emphasizing the “wide range” of religious views encompassed in the term.
Many Muslims who wish to serve the public good are influenced by the principles of their faith. Islam teaches Muslims to work for the welfare of humanity and to be honest and just. If this inspiration came from the Bible, such a person might well be called a Good Samaritan. But when the source is the Quran, the person is an “Islamist.”Unfortunately, the term “Islamist” has become shorthand for “Muslims we don’t like.” It is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context and is often coupled with the term “extremist,” giving it an even more negative slant.
Hooper believes that because there are so few “positive references to ‘Islamist’ in news articles,” it should not be used. Though it’s hard to imagine how journalists might put a positive spin on beheadings and honor killings.
Hooper tried to strike a comparison between Islamic extremism with other religions. He wrote:
There are also no — nor should there be — references to “Christianists,” “Judaists” or “Hinduists” for those who would similarly seek governments “in accord with the laws” of their respective faiths.
No journalist would think of referring to the “Judaist government of Israel,” the “Christianist leader Rick Santorum” or “Hinduist Indian politician Narendra Modi,” while use of “Islamist” has become ubiquitous. It might be an interesting exercise to hold a contest, the winner of which would be the first to find a positive mainstream media reference to “Islamist.”
Quite likely, such a contest would end up being similar to a unicorn hunt.
The frequent linkage of the term “Islamist” to violence and denial of religious and human rights is also strongly promoted by Islamophobic groups and individuals who seek to launch rhetorical attacks on Islam and Muslims, without the public censure that would normally accompany such bigoted attacks on any other faith.
Radical Islam’s American watchdogs – presumably those “Islamophobic groups and individuals” to whom Hooper referred — have reacted to CAIR’s proposal. The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s Executive Director Steven Emerson pointed out the irony of the drop-the-word campaign, since not only have CAIR’s leaders used the term “Islamist” themselves, they also employ the term “Islamophobes” as a label for their critics.
Emerson wrote:
Hooper’s demand that “Islamist” be removed from the lexicon is ironic, since his bosses seemed more than comfortable placing themselves firmly in the world of “Islamists” back in 1993. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad joined two dozen Hamas supporters in Philadelphia for a fall weekend in an urgent meeting called to discuss ways to “derail” the U.S.-brokered Oslo Accords.
The FBI bugged the meeting room. Transcripts entered into evidence during a 2008 Hamas-financing trial show the participants referred to “Islamists” dozens of times. Ahmad helped lead the meeting, helping determine who might attend and calling it to order.
The FBI described the group as Hamas members and supporters. “Hamas’ agenda was not only to eliminate Israel,” prosecutors wrote, “but also to sabotage the Oslo Accords and to replace the secular PA regime with an Islamist government that would control all of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.”
Emerson explained that Ahmad, CAIR chairman emeritus until 2009, used the term when presenting the group’s media strategy:
“The first goal was relating to activism among Muslims and Palestinians but we must broadcast our point of view in U. S. media. There is a very good reason for that which is bringing the voice of the Islamists to the surface, keeping them informed and explaining their positions in order to case the severity of allegations of radicalism and other things,” Ahmad said. [Emphasis added] “This will also make our position known to Muslims and sympathizers whom we cannot reach via our media tools.”
One speaker took pains to emphasize how important it was to cloak their true agenda, that is, destroying Israel:
“We must be clear that we oppose this thing 100% and that we, the Islamists … different from what is being suggested for Palestinian activism,” Akram said. No one disagreed.
Their claim on Palestine was not limited to the West Bank and Gaza, Ahmad said, agreeing it was not a wise strategy to say so publicly.
“We’ve always demanded the 1948 territories,” Ahmad said.
“Yes,” an unidentified speaker responded, “but we don’t say that publicly. You cannot say it publicly. In front of the Americans…”
“No,” Ahmad agreed, “we didn’t say that to the Americans.”
Nearly 20 years later, Ahmad’s organization doesn’t want Americans to say the same words he and his colleagues embraced.
Emerson provides multiple examples of CAIR supporters and members utilizing the term “Islamist” both in a matter of fact manner and boastfully. He wrote: “CAIR’s background…should be taken into consideration by anyone entertaining Hooper’s request to serve as language cop.”
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, another CAIR adversary, reminded readers that the media do not frequently identify CAIR as “an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, or note the jihad terror convictions of several of their former officers, or their consistent opposition to every anti-terror measure ever devised.” He wrote:
The irony is that, as I have explained many times (as in this National Review article), the term “Islamist” is often used by those who believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, to create a distance between Islam, which is supposedly entirely benign and peaceful, and Islamism, which teaches political authoritarianism, subjugation of non-Muslims, and everything else about Islam that is unpleasant and at variance with Western principles of human rights. [...]
Anyway, now even the word “Islamist,” although it is usually used to exonerate Islam and distance its teachings from the violence and hate propagated in its name, is unacceptable for Hamas-linked CAIR. Clearly Hamas-linked CAIR’s amiable beekeper, Honest Ibe Hooper, sees how successful he and his fellow Islamic supremacists have been in co-opting the media, government, and law enforcement in recent years, and is pressing on toward final victory: the total silencing of any resistance to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. […]
What Honest Ibe is not telling you here is that “Islamists” are generally proponents of political Islam, an authoritarian system that would deny basic rights to non-Muslims and women. Their political agenda is grounded in Islam in a way that no fair-minded person would say that Santorum’s is grounded in Christianity.
Twitter posters are suggesting new terms to describe radical Islamists. For example, David Garth wrote: “What do they want us to use? Adherents of a peaceful religion that have a nasty habit of murdering people?”
While RightWingNerd quipped: “But really, who hasn’t accidentally beheaded someone?”
If you had to write an article about religiously-motivated Islamists, which alternate term would you use? Add your ideas in comments below.
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Comments (310)
dublinthewagons
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:08amWasnt mohamid a serial killer, child molesting, slave owner, that started the pig breeders association called CAIR
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:09amI find it quite ironic that we have an article here about Islamists wanting to censor us and The Blaze wastes no time in censoring us…Pathetic really…
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Thevoice
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:13amNo.. Here let me help educate you on this Mohammad guy….His claim to fame is he set up the … National ISLAMIST bomber auction house….That’s were they bring their kids, wives, brothers, sisters and auction them off to be suicide bombers. You big Satan people have to start learning the truth…lol
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:25amActually, CAIR is known to be one of the 264 “unindicted co-conspirators” named by federal judge Jorge Solis at the end of the Holy Land Foundation terror trial in Dallas. CAIR, along with NAIT and ISNA, were named because the judge said that he had ample evidence to link the named organizations and individuals to Hamas, a terror organization designated by the US State Department. Hamas has killed 17 American citizens and countless Jews.
The only reason that these filthy bastards are on the street and not rotting in a federal prison is the corruption fostered by lots of Saudi oil money, eroding the law enforcement sector. I’ve gone on the FBI web site many times to jump nasty into the obvious FBI PR ploy of arresting the “onzie, twozies” of jihadists while they allow the well-heeled, stealth jihad, mega-campaign donors to roam about the country-side.
How many Baptists could be named as co-conspirators in a terror trial and be allowecd to make speeches about how hurtful we’re being to Baptists?
Meantime, the Ayatollah Obama sucks up to these MB front groups and invites them to the White House for dinner (ISNA) and to the State Department to hear him rip our ally, Israel, a new one.
Obviously, 51% of the US voters think that’s a good thing and felt that Obama should be rewarded for such treasonous acts.
Personally, I don’t feel that way.
“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:26amI was thinking of calling them “My Camels Got Back” or “Pre-Teen Holiday”
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:26am@Indyguy: How does the Blaze censor? I can’t remember ever being censored by the Blaze. OK. Maybe a word here and there but never any of my comments in total. They do have guidelines that need to be followed just like a lot of other sites. And, seeing as the Blaze is the Blaze’s site I guess they can censor any comment they want. There is freedom of speech here as long as you follow the rules.
Also, if you are talking about your comments not showing up right away that’s normal. Sometimes I’ve had comments not show up for 15 minutes or more. Other times they show up within just a few minutes. I think that all depends on how heavy the traffic is. There have been times where I’ve had to just close the browser and have a cup of coffee before my comment showed up. Other times I go and read a different story and come back to the one, like this story, I commented on and my comment shows up.
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:39am@Gorp…The Blaze censors heavily….The fact that they own the site doesn’t change the fact that it is censorship…And I understand the delay due to traffic or the person in charge taking their time…I’ve had posts removed AFTER they showed…I’ve had posts MOVED to a back page….I’ve had posts flatout censored…I know exactly what I’m talking about….The Blaze is run by P.C. minded folks and it is not good for America…
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Fecal_Matters
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:58amIslamists=extremist! Muslims=extremist We call you what you are. Want to change that? How ’bout you Derkas start denouncing murder..no not just one of you…all of you!
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BODYBAG
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:01amAdherents of the Muslim faith should be banned from elected office in the USA.
Enough with the PC tolerance crap.
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:15amI don’t care about CAIR
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xmilitary
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:16amI agree with him. We should replace the word “islamist” with the word “asshat.”
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db321
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:17amIt is still Ok to call an Islamist – Mr. President?
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:27amAnd just why hasn’t the blaze posted this with this story?http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/03/cair-chief-muslims-discovered-america-before-columbus/
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banjarmon
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:55amThe Correct term for cair people is S H E E T H E A D S!!!!!!
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RIGS
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:56amGORP why do you use a picture of ALLAN COLMES the liberal moron he looks just like HOWDY DOODY and BOB BECKEL looks like BUFFALO BOB.
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SacredHonor1776
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:58amHow long before saying “Muslim” is a hateful word! So they can be the religon that shll not be named?
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:09pmDarn It Rigs. Now I’m going to have to re-think my avatar. Maybe Pinky Lee?
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:16pmWell here goes. Let’s see if my avatar has changed from “Alan” to Pinky Lee. I sure hope so. I don’t want to be associated with anything close to a liberal.
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TX_45_ACP
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:59pmI went to the bathroom this morning. I looked below and I realized…it was CAIR!
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Trigus
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:49pmHonestly, Do they really care about mohammed? Why was it okay to raze mohammed’s first wife house to build a public toilet?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wheres-the-outrage-saudi-arabia-bulldozing-islamic-holy-sites-and-muslim-world-is-silent/
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FieldJudge
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:51pm@INDYCRY
Hey Whiner, The Blaze is comments area is a work in progress, not censoring your poor, sarcasm filled comments, which are tiring to read. They are appearing (unfortunately for members) You must be here from HuffPo where their moderators troll and filter every comment, with many conservative opinions never to be posted. Try growing a pair, work harder, lose the sarcasm and post something worth our time to read…
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nzkiwi
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:23pmIt doesn’t really matter what name the Islamists select for themselves. or is selected for them, any such new name will quickly become a pseudonym for “savage”.
It is not the name by which they are referred that is the problem, it is their actions.
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Fecal_Matters
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:29pm@xmilitary…Ok Asshat is good…or sand naggers
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Mulder1
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:39pmYes, Muhammad was a murderer, Warlord, womanizer, rapist, and a child molestor. Islam was never a religion of peace. Yes, we should use the phrase – Islamic Jihadist instead of Islamist!
Learn about Muhammad here: The Innocent Prophet –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7gwcuG2jb9k&bpctr=1356013858&bpctr=1356039970&bpctr=1356039979
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:52pmHey FieldJudge…Here’s a taxidermy kit…go stuff it…
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dmerwin
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:47pmI agree with CAIR, I think “muslim arschloch” is much more appropriate.
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TexOkie
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:59pm“I find it quite ironic that we have an article here about Islamists wanting to censor us and The Blaze wastes no time in censoring us…Pathetic really…”
And that is how you make a moral equivalence.
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on January 7, 2013 at 5:43pmDon’t use Islamist – use the correct term Islamist Terrorist !
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Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:23pmWe could just refer to them as the “Backward Idiot Terrorists.”
This is all part of their plan. This is the step where they make it illegal to say anything about Islam (the religion), the prophet, or anything else that might upset the Backward Idiot Terrorists and cause them to riot, pillage, rape, murder, burn, and all the other thing their ilk wants to do when given the opportunity. As for CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, & Islam in general, when they allow Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sihks, & any other religion to exist in their countries WITHOUT any hatred or acts of hatred against same, THEN I will accept Islam as a religion & not just a terrorist training organization that wants all infidels dead.
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Superabound
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:59pm@johnpaulkuchtajr Hamas killed 17 Americans? Damn, Israel’s got them beat! They killed TWICE that many Americans in just one day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
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Noonien_Soong
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:06amI am almost tempted to instruct CAIR “ISLAMISTS” to learn some Klingon, Romulon and Vulcan to be really educated.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:05amOk since it’s a new year I need to get all my insulting words in so here we go.
Black
Red
Yellow
Brown
Fried Chicken
Watermelon
Taco Bell
Rice Ball
Chop Sticks
Meatball
Golf
Chicago
Urban
Redskins
Brother
Siesta
*** (as in you took my wave you _____)
Girls
Queer (as in that seems ____)
Basketball
Women’s
Men’s
Christ
Jesus
God
Islamist
Jew
Buddhist
Gun
Knife
Stick
Now for the words that are ok to say:
White
*******
Honky
White Devil
Bow Tie White Boy
Master
Racist
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decendentof56
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:47amI think Diane Feinstein (Jewish) may be able to help them.
Maybe these could help:
Michael Albert- socialist activist- former SDS member-(Jewish)
Noam Chomsky- his views? “fairly traditional anarchist ones”- (Jewish)
Were he alive, I’m sure Felix Frankfurter (Jewish) would help. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Roosevelt (’39) and founded the ACLU. Surely, he would have helped these fine people.
I mean…if you are going to want social justice, that means helping the ones who would eventually kill you.
Sorry if I offend any of the “Mark Levin” Jewish who post here. They are definitely not to be confused with ones that I mention.
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jlightning1
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:54amYou forgot Christmas
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:22amJlightning
How did I miss that??
Thanks
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:32amOMG! I’m so offended by your comment I can’t even comment on your comment. So, seeing as I’m so offended by your offensive words comment I don’t feel I’ll be able to comment on your comment about words that offend comment.
Wait a minute. Now I’m so confused I can’t even remember what you commented on that made me so offended that I HAD to comment on your comment.
I have to go now and run my head into a wall or something else fun like that. brb…
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:34amAWWW. That felt good.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:40amLOL GORP
Nice job!!!
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gyro
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:25amYou do love your lists !!
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:37amGyro
Yes I do so love my lists.
Could you imagine the show George Carlin could do with today’s PC crowd?
However I did forget one. This is one of my personal favorites “Peanut Butter and Jelly” or as the PC folks would call it “The PBJ Worrrrrrrrd”
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Superabound
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 2:02pm@oldsurfrat “Could you imagine the show George Carlin could do with today’s PC crowd?”
If George Carlin was alive today hed be too busy talking about how stupid, insane, and racist the Republican party is. The only people Carlin made fun of more than pearl-clutching PC liberals were Christians and right-wingers.
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rickroland
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:03amI would kindly like to say, to the Islamists out there, sorry of the word “Islamist” offends your Islamist sensibilities.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:03am.
OK from now on we call them “Dirty Goat Humpers”?…….
I guess Islamist don’t sound so bad now does it?……………..
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:18amYou made me LAUGH!
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:20amThat was good…
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Gorp
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:40amAnd it makes me wonder why they can’t find a clean goat… I suppose dirty goats smell better to the Islamists!
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AINT_SKEERT
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:13amI prefer the term, “sheet head”.
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gyro
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:28amHow can they be dirty if they bath ?
thinking——————————————–
ok got it
dirty applys
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WildschweinJager
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:46pm@SPANKDA
You have to say “just kidding” afterwards, then is it ok.
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bannedfromCNN
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 1:59pmHow ’bout if we all just call you “Barack”?
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Jenny Lind
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:38pmthanks spank, made me laugh-first time today!
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The Scarecrow
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:20pmI say if the shoe fits they should wear it.
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Lamarr01
Posted on January 7, 2013 at 6:02pmGoat humping is not very common. “A righteous Muslim man who has had sexual relations with an animal, such as a sheep, may not eat its meat. He would commit sin.” So it is written. Allah be praised.
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Piercetopher
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:03amSo we should just refer to them as Muslims rather than Islamist? While Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism may not have an “ist” they are still referred to using their denominations. I heard plenty about the Mormon candidate, the Catholic candidate as well as the stories covering the concept of the USA not being lead as a religious nation and so those were meant to be negative descriptions of the candidates.
This goes to show that progressive ideology is a worldwide phenomena- change the language once something starts to sound bad.
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KissMyAmericanFlag
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:03pmFurther, theoretically mind you, if the muzzle’ms and their ill-informed sympathizers see fit the separate the religious extremists from the merely politically-oriented, one could then likewise refer to Jewish people as Israelis and Israelites, Yes? Methinks opportunity for reciprocal intricacy would be lost on the muzlims.
Their angst about true identity is only part of the _problem_ of their national and individual purpose for existence.
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Noonien_Soong
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:01amWant to know why English is a superb language? It’s because one can use root words as a foundation to build upon other words with other various definitions and usages. Most of modern english uses some of foreign words of their languages we use today. Some of the basic English is rooted in Latin as far back as the beginnings of the pre-printed bible. As time went on other language words were incorporated into the English language including French Spanish and a smattering of old world immigrants influences.
So there you go CAIR, go get a language education if you want to be intelligent and smart.
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:57amMy brothers at CAIR have been a great assistance to me and I’ve worked very closely with brother Hooper so close in fact we’ve had a sexual relationship for many years so this is personal for your gay Marxist ruler. I will always have his back and he knows that and working together we’ll establish my caliphate here in new America. My propaganda machine is formidable indeed and every ‘journalist’ in new America loves me and supports me and me and my beard thank you from the bottom of our cold black hearts. Praise be to me BHO.
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mapgirl10
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:57am1.(Islamist) Muslims do not run our thought, words or country. We have a government dictating to us what is happening. 2. I call things as I see them and that is my God given right. Americans are becoming pushovers to crackpots. 3. When being pushed, pull, when being bullied offer peace. If they resist pull. Where is the wisdom in the country? Face facts our media is in complicit in this overthrow of the government. Don’t they realize they are burying themselves out of business. Why doesn’t out government and media stick up for us for a change? Give me a break with the tell them what to say crap and grow a pair!
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WildschweinJager
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:48pmForeign powers are playing the USA like a game of chess and the USA keeps on sleeping and dreaming the dreams of denial.
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commonsenseguy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:52amcair-
council for american intimidation and repression,
dirty hippie douche bags.
this group is nothing more than a bunch of anti freedom,anti america,anti christian, do as they say bullies and Islamist terrorist
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:58amThumbs up. You win the post of the day
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 5:11pmIt’s worse than that. They like little boys. Soft ones. And little girls. Young as 9. Particularly in Yemen. These are the worst perverts anywhere. While they scream “immoral Western Decadence and Great Satan” they all fly to Dubai to get their little boys or girls or goats or whatever. They are the biggest slave traders still. They are enslaving Africa at a rapid pace. Look it up. Nobody does a bigger business in slavery historically or in modern times than the Arabs.
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:49amLet’s see, “Sure we will, when hell freezes over!”
islamist, our enemies of old, follow satan whom they call mo’ ham (interesting this part of his name, isn’t it?) – it.
islamists… just writing it makes me want to throw up!
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commonsenseguy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:59ami hate to say this,but with all of these nut jobs having a say i how america is run and with a government that is anti constitution,pro abortion,pro koran, hell has dropped a few degrees everyday,it is really getting where it may just be comfortable to the anti christian,murders,rapist,pedophile and that is crazy they should continue to burn, if we don’t change the way america is heading,then who knows hell just may be the best place in the future, i can not believe i just posted this,but with every thing up is down, every thing right,wrong, a communist is a liberal now,things are all backwards. i pray that we can turn this ship wreck around before we all go down with it.
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:08amCOMMON: I think I am beginning to have a new understanding of the rise of Hitler . Blow-back.
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BODYBAG
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:00am@BARBER2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:08am
COMMON: I think I am beginning to have a new understanding of the rise of Hitler . Blow-back.
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Bullseye.
Very easy to see actually. There are days I would almost welcome American Fascism over
continuing with this communist regime. Imagine the pleasure in seeing people like Chris Matthews,
Al Sharpton, Alan Grayson, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Cass Sunstein, Valerie Jarrett, and of course the Chocolate King himself —- rounded up and thrown into a dungeon somewhere to rot so that Americans
can take back the schools and our government.
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No Grass
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:38am@commonsense
“… i can not believe i just posted this,but with every thing up is down, every thing right,wrong, a communist is a liberal now,things are all backwards.”
Agreed. It is how the British felt at Yorktown.
http://www.contemplator.com/england/worldtur.html
The World Turned Upside Down
If buttercups buzz’d after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.
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mrunner
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:48amCAIR- the islamic equivilent of NAACP, or the KKK if you will. We need to demonize these evil organizations and stop accepting their demonization of America. They are evil, but I guess so long as we have a black, muslim president – we got what we got. Maybe someday we will elect an American again.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:44am‘Journalists’? where are these ‘journalists’ these Islamists speak about? There are no journalists in America anymore only propagandists for the Marxist regime .
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B-Neil
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:42amChanging the name does’nt change the reality of hate and barbarism. The “GOOD” islamists are making no effort to correct the “BAD” islamists. So non of the islamists have a thing comming. Untill they grow up, fix there problems; they can all eat sh-t and die.
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:56amIt is a shame our constitution allows them to breath our air, under the name of religion.
Our government has demonized and killed people after calling them a religious cult.
But not the Islamic slave owning, rapist, mass murderers that have no respect for human life, even their own.
Oh did that describe our leader and his minions. I should appologie. Tuffsky shitsky
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:38amI’m sure the MSM, the Obama Chicago radicals’ propaganda tool, will be only too happy to placate CAIR since they share the same goal: “to fundamentally change America .”
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Advection
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:44amI’m sure you’re correct. These two groups (Progressives and Islamists) are very similar in goals, strategies and tactics.
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:00amAD: And as Erdogan admitted , they are riding the same bus right now but they have different exit stops in mind. ( Just shows how naive and stupid our radical Obama Democrats really are – to think they can do business with these other hate-filled criminals. Reminds me of Stalin and Hitler signing their early agreement : a match made in Hell with a matching result. )
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:36amBy all means change the name
A rabid skunk to pole cat
It’s still rabid, still looks the same, still stinks, and will continue to bite you.
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:34amYeah, OK so give us a list of what you want to be called by sub-group…clowns to the left of me.
Censorship is the way of the so called nutters that endorse SHARIA LAW.
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Florida_firefighter
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:33am“The future does not belong to those who insult the prophet of islam” – Barack Hussein Obama, Sept 12, 2012. We are also not allowed to call islamic terror as being terror. BHO defines it as “a man made disaster.” We are also not to call the war on terror as such. BHO defines it as the “overseas contingency plan.” Such nice euphamisms by our president make it seem so warm and fuzzy now, doesn’t it? Welcome to sharia.
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crackerone
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:16amThey had me at………..,push the Jews into the sea!
B.H.Obama
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:47amYes. And don’t forget that Obama now has ” an unprecedented string of six prosecutions for leaking information to the news media ” ( this by the Obama hypocrites who have leaked favorable info to the NYT front page routinely ) ! Using the Obama FBI to entrap a former CIA agent ! ? Remember the Secret Service scandal ? Remember the Petraeus scandal ? Remember the phony ” the Muhammed video caused all of the 9/11 protests ? ” This Administration is the biggest bunch of radical con artists and liars to ever OCCUPY the White House. EVER.
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CathyvanDyke
Posted on January 7, 2013 at 7:06pmCall it “Workplace Violence” when 12 are killed and 59 are wounded in the name of “Allah”.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:33amStealth Jihad….Propaganda…..Media……SAY NO TO FAIR
STEALTH JIHAD OF AMERICA……Criminals……..Do NOT play FAIR with Criminals
ISLAM IS A CULT … A Political Cult of forced SLAVERY………ISLAM IS A CRIMINAL MAFIA
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:31amAttention CAIR: I have two words for you, and I bet you can guess which ones they are.
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softunderbelly
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:53amWould that be “Bite Me”? But wait a minute, my wife calls me a pig and they don’t eat pork. That’s out. How about “FOCK YOU!”. Would that work? Yeah, I think so. I like it.
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Gregb
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:26amThese islamists can’t take the truth. John 8:32 – and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. America was founded on Christianity. These islamists want to come here and change our laws. If they want to live in America, then they need to adapt to our Christian culture.
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chjaka
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 1:56pmHow I wish you were right. Look around, we have no more Christian culture and thus we continue to decline and conform to evil.
To sum; it is a bitter thing to depart from The Lord.
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:19amP.S…When CAIR is allowed to call the shots,we are under Sharia Law…Now is the time to fight them and fight HARD…
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blanco5
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:26amExactly!
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poorrichard09
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:33amYeah, and wouldn’t they just LOVE to see us disarmed?
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cosette
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:48am@Indiguy….. Note to Muslims….. Not to worry. The MSM also couples the term “right-wing” with the pejorative “extremist”. At the same time those of the opposing ideology are termed “progressive” or not identified at all. The MSM will acquiesce to the demands of CAIR, while the American conservative has been, and will continue to be, the whipping boy of the MSM.
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:53amCOSETTE: True. Just ask Joy Behar ….
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:19amIslamist
Islamist.
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Ok I’m out of breath.
Oh one more time.
Islamist
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blanco5
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:27amAnd one more….Islamist!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:29amOLDSURFRAT, LOL, yeah that is what we’ll say. I can just hear the MSM ask in unison “How high?”
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:32amBlanco
Thanks I was running out of air :)
One for the road
Islamist
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:36amMorning RJJ
Come on and join in with me.
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Islamist
Ok you take it from here :)
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SolitudeBliss
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:51amYou stole my post LOL
Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!! Islamist !!!!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:56amOLDSURFRAT, LOL, I have been, guess you just can’t hear me. I did have the cats scurrying around though.
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
ISLAMIST!
That was great, and stress relieving too.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:10amThanks Guys!!!
I feel like Beethoven!!! LOL
My greatest piece yet.
I just love it when the symphony comes together. It’s just beautiful I tell you just beautiful.
Now for my next piece.
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
LOL
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:13amRJJ
You know I do feel better. I think we may be on to something. Maybe we can market it.
The Islamist stress reliever by Ronco.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:32amOLDSURFRAT, LOL, I can just picture the infomercials now!
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:46amLOL RJJ
Hey Dad what’s that thing you have with the r a g on it’s head??
Well son that’s my new ISLAMIST stress reliever by Ronco.
You just rub it’s head and say ISLAMIST 30 times and presto all your worries just melt away.
Wow dad can I try.
Sure son! Now hold it tight and rub.
ISLAMIST
ISLAMIST
ISLAMIST
ISLAMIST
ISLAMIST
ISLAMIST
“Yes the Islamist stress reliever by Ronco”. Only $19.95 (plus shipping and handling)
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:47amYou keep calling my name I see you,what is it you require of your Islamist gay Marxist ruler?
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SolitudeBliss
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:54am@OldSurfRat Order now and we’ll send you a 2nd one absolutely free. Ronco Stress Reliever ~Islamist Version.
Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist Islamist
Buy NOW NOW NOW
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barber2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:55amThanks, guys. Funny ! Laughs are hard to come by theses days with the Chicago radicals OCCUPYING the White House !
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:18amTime
Yes!!
I want a free cell phone, free internet, free food, free housing and free healthcare.
Can ya do that?? Can ya can ya can ya huh can ya.
Oh wait I also want rich people taxed to death. That should do it.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:21amSolitude LOL
Lets not forget the legal terms.
(Not available in HI, CA, NY, NJ, WA and most other states that voted for Obama)
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:28amBarber
Glad you got a laugh. It’s good to laugh even when things seem hopless.
It make them seem a little better even if just for the moment.
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:29amOldsurfrat Ask and ye shall receive,as your magnificent gay Marxist ruler I can give you all those things for a price,you’ll have to be a slave to my regime and from the looks of it I have millions of slaves already and I’ll have all of you soon. I was elected and reelected! I swear to myself Americans are soooooooo stupid,they bought all my lies hook line and sinker. Praise be to me BHO.
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Zipit
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:39amI am guessing that “ladies night” down at the corner ISLAMIST bar is out?
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:44amTime
Thank you!!!
I’m not worthy. I’m not worthy. I’m not worthy.
Hey wait a minute. Why do I still have a cell phone bill on my desk??
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:17am“”If you had to write an article about religiously-motivated Islamists, which alternate term would you use?”"
Uh…************???
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:31amINDYGUY, LOL. The only words remaining that we would use are automatically censored here.
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:49amYeah…I was censored….It had something to do with riding a one humped critter…
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:56amP.P.S……At the bottom of the article it asks what word you would…I offered 2 words that are often used and SHARONA SCHWARTZ whom doesn’t even use a pic of herself at the “Posted by”line censored me…..Hey BLAZE….You are NOT fighting the cause for America when you allow this HEAVY censorship…
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grimmster
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:22am@RJJ.
They censored my whole post,not just 1 word. But thats the Blaze,guess Glenn ,like the libturds only like freedom of speach, when you speak nicely…….
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COFemale
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:53amIf your comment was censored grimmster, which I doubt, it had to be pretty bad for them to do this. You are just a troll from Media Blathers or some other hack group such as Think Backwards.
I’ve had words censored, but not an entire comment. Me thinks you are a fibber.
If you are here to harm me in MY Country, then you are whatever I call you. Changing your name does not change your stripes; a tiger without stripes is still a tiger.
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Fubared
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:30pmWait. You guys are completely disrespecting a lot of the resident aryans that align with the Cair types in their hate and utter disdain for all Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew thought or word or land or property… SillySallyrefreshener, Jerky Boy, TeckEngineer69 and an assorted lot of malcontents would rather we believe that even this CAIR crap is manufactured by the Jooos. Juden is bandied about daily and practically nobody says jack. Feinstein isn’t an individual, she represents all the Jooos according to the resident aryans. Maybe we should let the CAIR fellows and aryans have more say and we can just rest on our laurels and go back to sleep. Seems to have worked really swell in that history thingy. What are the differences with the nazis and CAIR? Eye color? Language? What?
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tothepoint
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:16amGod love them…these Islamists are practicing taquyia and think Americans aren’t on to them.
Perhaps they should read their own Koran and listen to their own anti-American, hating leaders.
I’m concerned they don’t know what is in their own book, history, and have obviously not followed the actions of Muslims around the world.
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Advection
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:52amYou give them too much credit. They know. They are proud of their dictators. They are proud of their murderers.
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 7:54pmThey know exactly what is in their book and are acting it out to the letter. The latter verses in the Koran supercede the former verses. They think we in the West don’t know what “abrogation” is? We are on to every dirt jihad trick of theirs. Oh. FYI: They obey the Hadith or “saying of the Prophet’ as well. Their favorite chapter is the one in which their P saw women falling into hell. That is why they like men and little boys best. Cause women are doomed. That is why women in Islam can be “beaten but don’t leave a mark” and treated like sexual slaves and worse. This religion is full of rapists, pedophiles and homosexuality while they point fingers to the WEst? I LMAO at their false moral outrage which is nothing more than a filthy, rotten, guilty conscience being projected onto a sane world.
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Welcome Black Carter
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:33pmNegative slant? CAIR, trust me… you really can not get a more negative spin on “islam” or “muslim”. That ship has sailed… Your “allah” is satan. Can you you put lipstick on that?
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