Muslims bristle at Bush term "Islamic fascists"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
U.S. Muslim groups criticized President Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a "war with Islamic fascists," saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.

U.S. officials have said the plot, thwarted by Britain, to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic bore many of the hallmarks of al Qaeda.

"We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counterproductive to associate Islam or Muslims with fascism," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group.

"We ought to take advantage of these incidents to make sure that we do not start a religious war against Islam and Muslims," he told a news conference in Washington.

"We urge him (Bush) and we urge other public officials to restrain themselves."

Awad said U.S. officials should take the lead from their British counterparts who steered clear of using what he considered inflammatory terms when they announced the arrest of more than 20 suspects in the reported plot.
Hours after the news broke, Bush said it was "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation."

Bush and other administration officials have used variations of the term "Islamo-fascism" on several occasions in the past to describe militant groups including al Qaeda, its allies in Iraq and Hizbollah in Lebanon.

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This is exactly the problem with the liberal leaning media bias and the overwhelming desire by those entities to be politically correct and not to offend the Muslim community, and by doing so they do us a disservice.

What President Bush said is the truth and those in the Muslim community do not want to hear it, Bush said, "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation."

Now those Muslim Americans who were offended by that statement can get the hell out of our country, if they cannot realize the evil the permeates within their culture and the violence that emanates from their society and the world will never be able to stop these insane and cowardly terrorist attacks.

The spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, Edina Lekovic said that, "The problem with the phrase is it attaches the religion of Islam to tyranny and fascism, rather than isolating the threat to a specific group of individuals.”

This is a total load of crap, there has to be something inherently wrong with a religion that is so commonly and regularly used to cause violence and devastation around the world and the forceful subjugation of women.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t ever remember seeing Christian fundamentalists blowing themselves up trying to kill as many innocent women and children possible or strapping bombs to their own children.

These are not the acts of a civil people, they are the acts of savages and should be treated as such, and we want to live in a world where honor killings and female genital mutilation in not an everyday occurrence as it is in the vast majority of the Muslim world.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, than guess what, it’s probably a duck. Our President has called these people what they truly are and I commend him for these actions and hope in future he continues to use such blunt language.