BROWN: DON'T SAY TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS (lunacy)

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

BROWN: DON'T SAY TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS

By Macer Hall

Daily Express

July 3,2007

This is a bit old, but it has set the blogs running all over the Internet. God knows I am strongly against the veiled bigotry I see in wholesale condemnations of Muslims, but this measure by Brown is pure lunacy. If we don't talk about it, maybe it will go away?

How on earth is a problem ever going to be solved if it is not correctly identified? Granted, there are other forms of terrorism in the world, but would Brown prohibit his ministers from saying "Irish terrorists" if the IRA ever gets active again?

This is a perfect example where cognitive and normative thinking are mushed together to the detriment of survival.

Unbelievable!

Cox and Forkum did a cute take on this:

Here are another couple of stories on this. I do not predict good things for England from Gordon Brown. I wonder if he is funded by Muslims.

'ISLAMOPHOBIA' IDIOCY from New York Post

Terror-spooked EU: 'Don't say Muslims' from Daily Mail

All of the above articles are from July 3-6. Interestingly, in today's The Times (July 9), a retiring minister had no problem adding Muslim to terrorism:

Recruit Muslim spies in war on terror, urges new security chief from The Times

The headline is confusing. Who said this was not Sir Alan West, the new security chief, but instead, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. From the article:

Dame Eliza, who retired as head of MI5 this year, said there was a “pressing demand” for the police to create a network of spies from within the Muslim population to help to gather intelligence on suspects and plots.

She said that the networks “scattered across the country” are thought to be plotting up to 30 attacks at any one time.

Her comments, written before she retired but published recently in Policing: A Journal of Policing and Practice, indicate the difficulties the police face in getting information from within the Muslim community.

Like her, there are most likely many other sane people in England, so all is not lost over there. They just need to get a new Prime Minister fast.

Michael

[John Dailey]

~ 'Racial'-Profiling is a no-no. For that matter, 'Ethnic'-Profiling has the same PC status, though it's rarely identified specifically as such. Indeed, too many pundits speak of the latter in terms of the former, advertising that they ignorantly see no dif.

~ It's not called/identified as such now, but clearly everyone's now having a prob with 'Religious'-Profiling here. As asked about Swedes, "How many Catholics, Zorastrians or Shintoists have hijacked planes lately?"

~ Strictly speaking, 'Muslim' terrorists aren't the only religious fanatics for the globe to worry about; it's merely the civilized world which needs to worry about them, it seems. However, in keeping with the times, why can't we all agree to call all such fundamentalist fanatics "FAITH-BASED KILLERS"? After all, that's what they are, and, such have a history going back through Christianity and Jewry.

LLAP

J:D

Edited July 12, 2007 by John Dailey

[Wrighty]

....... there are most likely many other sane people in England, so all is not lost over there. They just need to get a new Prime Minister fast.

Michael

Michael - if only......but then we don't always get what we vote for over here. Its the system!!

However - this very system we have been aching to give away to the dreaded collective EU for some time now........

except we (the people) don't want to give it away. And neither does any other European people want to give their system and identity away.

Keep reading Melanie Phillips' latest gleanings and comments

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=522

from time to time just to reassure yourself that we're not all lemmings.

Peter

[John Dailey]

~ To stress my point: IF, instead of speaking about 'Muslim Terrorists', we ALL spoke in terms of 'FAITH-BASED Murderers,' what kind of paridigm-shifting 'dialogue' (on TV-pundit-commentaries, ergo 'propagandistic' TV) would we have...amongst OURSELVES?

LLAP

J:D

Edited July 14, 2007 by John Dailey