m ACLU Official:“I Emphatically Refuse To Condemn Islamic Terrorism”

[Weatherman2020]

I know, you're saying to yourself duh, everyone knows the left and the ACLU side with Islamic terrorism.


Rana Elmir, an American Muslim and deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan, says that she “emphatically” refuses to condemn jihadist terrorists “just because I’m Muslim.”

In her provocative article in Monday’s Washington Post, Elmir claims that she is often asked to condemn Islamic terrorism, to which she replies: “I emphatically refuse.”

She then goes on to compare the systematic slaughters wrought under the name of Islamic terrorism with “the terror advanced by mostly white men at the alarming rate of one mass killing every two weeks in this country.”

Elmir draws a parallel between the Islamic State and “Dylann Storm Roof’s attack on parishioners of a historic black church in South Carolina, Robert Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood facility, the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” and “the slaughter of moviegoers in Colorado or Louisiana.”

“I will not be bullied into condemning terror perpetrated by psychopaths who misrepresent and distort Islam for their deranged purposes,” she wrote.

Muslim ACLU Official: ‘I Emphatically Refuse’ to Condemn Islamic Terrorism - Breitbart

 

[Mr. H.]

People like this, including Liberals Democrats Socialists Communists and Progressives will do whatever it takes to rationalize their agenda.

 

[Pogo]

It's sad when you have to misrepresent shit in order to have a point.

From the article itself, rather than a cherrypicker blogger's take ON it:

>> Not surprisingly, nativist rhetoric and policies targeting American Muslims always start with the same feral calls for condemnation. Asking us to apologize for violence that has orphaned generations of Muslims has the perverse effect of re-victimizing us by erasing our humanity and experiences. There is no other acceptable scenario in which the media, politicians and even our president would urge and expect victims to apologize publicly and rout out the ideology that contributed to their own persecution.

Since 2000, the majority of terror attacks have occurred in five countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria, all Muslim-majority countries. Close to 90 percent of the victims of Daesh are Muslims. A 2009 study conducted by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point concluded conservatively that al-Qaeda has killed eight times as many Muslims as non-Muslims.

Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.

Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

...
Sadly, as Muslims, we contribute to our own oppression by erroneously believing that if we just apologize, then the anti-Muslim rhetoric will end. And it never does. Condemnation becomes our admission of guilt, and we indirectly concede that terror is borne of us, and, therefore, we must atone and condone policies that criminalize us to prove “we have nothing to hide.”

But these calls for condemnation serve only zealots who will never be satisfied. They thrive and profit off of the fear-mongering, hate and violence generated by othering and silencing an entire community who has lived and contributed to our nation since its founding. The first Muslims in the United States were brought over bound as slaves, not immigrants.

...But I believe in a freedom that is true, that is real and that is unapologetically principled. I will always do my part and fight for justice.

But terrorism is not mine. I will not claim it, not even through an apology. <<​

I can't imagine why Dumbart left all that out, can you?

Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?

Think about it. Anybody ever demand you "condemn" Robert Dear because you're Christian?

 

[Pogo]

People like this, including Liberals Democrats Socialists Communists and Progressives will do whatever it takes to rationalize their agenda.

People like Dumbart, yes they do. That's why I clean their clocks -- so they know what time it is --- time for their ass whuppin'.

 

[bullwinkle]

I know, you're saying to yourself duh, everyone knows the left and the ACLU side with Islamic terrorism.


Rana Elmir, an American Muslim and deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan, says that she “emphatically” refuses to condemn jihadist terrorists “just because I’m Muslim.”

In her provocative article in Monday’s Washington Post, Elmir claims that she is often asked to condemn Islamic terrorism, to which she replies: “I emphatically refuse.”

She then goes on to compare the systematic slaughters wrought under the name of Islamic terrorism with “the terror advanced by mostly white men at the alarming rate of one mass killing every two weeks in this country.”

Elmir draws a parallel between the Islamic State and “Dylann Storm Roof’s attack on parishioners of a historic black church in South Carolina, Robert Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood facility, the murder of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” and “the slaughter of moviegoers in Colorado or Louisiana.”

“I will not be bullied into condemning terror perpetrated by psychopaths who misrepresent and distort Islam for their deranged purposes,” she wrote.

Muslim ACLU Official: ‘I Emphatically Refuse’ to Condemn Islamic Terrorism - Breitbart

Good grief, weather! You're a cherry-picking jerk here too?

 

[9thIDdoc]

"Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?"

Anybody but her claim that was the reason she was being asked? Didn't think so.
Think maybe she's being asked because she claims to be an American? I do.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Condemnation is not an apology.........this gives cover to "moderates" they now dont even have to raise their voice

 

[Pogo]

"Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?"

Anybody but her claim that was the reason she was being asked? Didn't think so.

Didn't read the article I linked either, because the VERY FIRST LINE reads, and I quote:

>> As an American Muslim, I am consistently and aggressively asked — by media figures, religious leaders, politicians and Internet trolls — to condemn terrorism to prove my patriotism. <<
​

You'll notice she even links them.

Sucks 2BU.

 

[9thIDdoc]

English is obviously not Pogo's 1st language

 

[bullwinkle]

English is obviously not Pogo's 1st language

Actually, it's more like "Republican English" isn't Pogo's first language. And I have to admire when he/she passes on his namesake's advice on who is the enemy, in this case... of comprehension.

 

[American_Jihad]

Smelling all dat 5x a day would turn Mother Teresa into a terrorist...

 

[Weatherman2020]

It's sad when you have to misrepresent shit in order to have a point.

From the article itself, rather than a cherrypicker blogger's take ON it:

>> Not surprisingly, nativist rhetoric and policies targeting American Muslims always start with the same feral calls for condemnation. Asking us to apologize for violence that has orphaned generations of Muslims has the perverse effect of re-victimizing us by erasing our humanity and experiences. There is no other acceptable scenario in which the media, politicians and even our president would urge and expect victims to apologize publicly and rout out the ideology that contributed to their own persecution.

Since 2000, the majority of terror attacks have occurred in five countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria, all Muslim-majority countries. Close to 90 percent of the victims of Daesh are Muslims. A 2009 study conducted by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point concluded conservatively that al-Qaeda has killed eight times as many Muslims as non-Muslims.

Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.

Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

...
Sadly, as Muslims, we contribute to our own oppression by erroneously believing that if we just apologize, then the anti-Muslim rhetoric will end. And it never does. Condemnation becomes our admission of guilt, and we indirectly concede that terror is borne of us, and, therefore, we must atone and condone policies that criminalize us to prove “we have nothing to hide.”

But these calls for condemnation serve only zealots who will never be satisfied. They thrive and profit off of the fear-mongering, hate and violence generated by othering and silencing an entire community who has lived and contributed to our nation since its founding. The first Muslims in the United States were brought over bound as slaves, not immigrants.

...But I believe in a freedom that is true, that is real and that is unapologetically principled. I will always do my part and fight for justice.

But terrorism is not mine. I will not claim it, not even through an apology. <<​

I can't imagine why Dumbart left all that out, can you?

Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?

Think about it. Anybody ever demand you "condemn" Robert Dear because you're Christian?

Ridiculous argument. There is no genocide of Muslims. And to say she can't condemn Islamic terrorism because some Muslims murder other Muslims is like a Communist refusing to condemn Stalin's murderering more Russians than Germans because many of those were fellow Communists.

 

[Pogo]

It's sad when you have to misrepresent shit in order to have a point.

From the article itself, rather than a cherrypicker blogger's take ON it:

>> Not surprisingly, nativist rhetoric and policies targeting American Muslims always start with the same feral calls for condemnation. Asking us to apologize for violence that has orphaned generations of Muslims has the perverse effect of re-victimizing us by erasing our humanity and experiences. There is no other acceptable scenario in which the media, politicians and even our president would urge and expect victims to apologize publicly and rout out the ideology that contributed to their own persecution.

Since 2000, the majority of terror attacks have occurred in five countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria, all Muslim-majority countries. Close to 90 percent of the victims of Daesh are Muslims. A 2009 study conducted by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point concluded conservatively that al-Qaeda has killed eight times as many Muslims as non-Muslims.

Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.

Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

...
Sadly, as Muslims, we contribute to our own oppression by erroneously believing that if we just apologize, then the anti-Muslim rhetoric will end. And it never does. Condemnation becomes our admission of guilt, and we indirectly concede that terror is borne of us, and, therefore, we must atone and condone policies that criminalize us to prove “we have nothing to hide.”

But these calls for condemnation serve only zealots who will never be satisfied. They thrive and profit off of the fear-mongering, hate and violence generated by othering and silencing an entire community who has lived and contributed to our nation since its founding. The first Muslims in the United States were brought over bound as slaves, not immigrants.

...But I believe in a freedom that is true, that is real and that is unapologetically principled. I will always do my part and fight for justice.

But terrorism is not mine. I will not claim it, not even through an apology. <<​

I can't imagine why Dumbart left all that out, can you?

Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?

Think about it. Anybody ever demand you "condemn" Robert Dear because you're Christian?

Ridiculous argument. There is no genocide of Muslims. And to say she can't condemn Islamic terrorism because some Muslims murder other Muslims is like a Communist refusing to condemn Stalin's murderering more Russians than Germans because many of those were fellow Communists.

You do realize that post makes no coherent sense, right?


Same question again that was never answered: what's your reaction if I demand that you condemn Robert Dear, Eric Rudolph, John Salvi, Scott Roeder, Tim McVeigh et al ----------- on the basis that you're a Christian?

 

[Weatherman2020]

It's sad when you have to misrepresent shit in order to have a point.

From the article itself, rather than a cherrypicker blogger's take ON it:

>> Not surprisingly, nativist rhetoric and policies targeting American Muslims always start with the same feral calls for condemnation. Asking us to apologize for violence that has orphaned generations of Muslims has the perverse effect of re-victimizing us by erasing our humanity and experiences. There is no other acceptable scenario in which the media, politicians and even our president would urge and expect victims to apologize publicly and rout out the ideology that contributed to their own persecution.

Since 2000, the majority of terror attacks have occurred in five countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria, all Muslim-majority countries. Close to 90 percent of the victims of Daesh are Muslims. A 2009 study conducted by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point concluded conservatively that al-Qaeda has killed eight times as many Muslims as non-Muslims.

Muslims across the globe are not threats. They are threatened.

Muslim vulnerability is not just contained abroad. The pernicious disease that is Islamophobia is spreading at home, thanks to a steady diet of repugnant rhetoric and equally misguided policies. While the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI fell in 2014 in most categories, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose, with Muslim Americans experiencing five times the number of hate crimes today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

...
Sadly, as Muslims, we contribute to our own oppression by erroneously believing that if we just apologize, then the anti-Muslim rhetoric will end. And it never does. Condemnation becomes our admission of guilt, and we indirectly concede that terror is borne of us, and, therefore, we must atone and condone policies that criminalize us to prove “we have nothing to hide.”

But these calls for condemnation serve only zealots who will never be satisfied. They thrive and profit off of the fear-mongering, hate and violence generated by othering and silencing an entire community who has lived and contributed to our nation since its founding. The first Muslims in the United States were brought over bound as slaves, not immigrants.

...But I believe in a freedom that is true, that is real and that is unapologetically principled. I will always do my part and fight for justice.

But terrorism is not mine. I will not claim it, not even through an apology. <<​

I can't imagine why Dumbart left all that out, can you?

Oh and the title of the piece is, "Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim". I can't imagine why Dimbart didn't want us to know the title and thereby see what she was really saying, rather than what some blogger wanted to twist it into, can you?

Think about it. Anybody ever demand you "condemn" Robert Dear because you're Christian?

Ridiculous argument. There is no genocide of Muslims. And to say she can't condemn Islamic terrorism because some Muslims murder other Muslims is like a Communist refusing to condemn Stalin's murderering more Russians than Germans because many of those were fellow Communists.

You do realize that post makes no coherent sense, right?

The only thing that makes sense to a leftist is BUSH CAUSED IT!