Obama Excoriates Republican Obsession With The Term ‘Radical Islam’
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully rebuked Republicans who have berated him for refusing to characterize lone wolf terror attacks by Muslim individuals as acts of radical Islam.
Speaking from the Treasury Department two days after a Muslim man shot 49 people to death at a gay nightclub in Orlando after declaring allegiance to the self-described Islamic State group, the president challenged his detractors to identify a single tangible benefit of adjusting his choice of words to describe the attack.
What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? Obama asked rhetorically, using another name for the Islamic State.
The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away.
Read more: http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-radical-islam_us_57603cdbe4b0e4fe5143dc4c
He should have called bullshit on them like this the day he was inaugurated.
David__77
(23,483 posts)Just like I'd call terrorism by racist groups "racist terrorist," I'd call terrorism by Islamist groups "Islamist terrorism."
Wilms
(26,795 posts)That would make more sense since you call a bunch of white guys "racial terrorists". Conversely, if you called said white guys "white terrorists", that would make your argument consistent.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)That's an ideology, just as Islamism is.
Simply being white or being Muslim is not an ideology.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)David__77
(23,483 posts)I don't know if I would call that hanging out. If he went prior to that, I have no idea what might have been his motivations.
What I understand is that he went to the club and killed many people.
He also pledged his allegiance to Islamic State.
Also, his wife says that she accompanied him there as well as to an firearms and ammunition store.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)than the hatred of white Christians, so there's that.
David__77
(23,483 posts)I'm most interested in actions, and in the propagation of ideology that supports or excuses terrorism.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Is there a garbage can icon?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent, Ty Smith, a Pulse regular, told the Orlando Sentinel.
The FBI is parsing the 29-year-old shooters life, looking for clues that led up to the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Agents investigating Mateen told Good Morning America theyve also heard accounts that he was spotted on dating apps for men, including Jackd, Adam4Adam and Grindr.
http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/omar-mateen-pulse-regular_us_576010abe4b0e4fe5143b16b?section=
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Because thats what todays conservatives are.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)After all he was raised as a Roman Catholic and if stay strictly to the line of thought of the Republicans in regards to Muslims then McVeigh must be a Radical Christian Terrorist right?
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)His anti-government views had nothing to do with religion.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)the same "logic" as some of the people like Trump then we should call people like McVeigh or anyone else for that matter that kills alot of people be it via a bomb, gun or plane a Radical (insert name of religion they grew up with or claimed to join here) Terrorist.
The funny thing is I suspect if we started adding Christian in there that atleast some people would object but I will lay you odds alot of them that would object over that will remain as silent as a church mouse over the use of the word Islamic, Islam or any word that could potentially denigrate Muslims in there.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)to Birther Trump for his 8 years of hot air
Powerful stuff. Obama has such presence and legitimacy now.
Trump is an Old Pretender in wig and function
jalan48
(13,881 posts)Cosmocat
(14,568 posts)and while the majority of the idiots who loyally babble conservative jackassery don't get it, a LOT of republican leaders do, and they are the true POS they are for parroting or allowing this bullshit to be parroted.
And, the sad part is, POTUS can't call it what it REALLY is, extremist conservatives because the jackasses here would literally implode through internal human combustion.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)At the top of Chris Hayes' program.
He spoke about "Radical Islam" and used the term itself, I expect Isis will immediately surrender like the Right inferred would happen once Obama used the term.