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Newsweek, putting the useful in useful idiot. Via the Muslim Brotherhood’s official English language website, Ikhwanweb.
Stealth Jihad and Creeping Sharia, truly racist terms- Ikhwanweb
Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek describing the latest fad by anti-Islamists to promote their semantic assault by using terms such as ’stealth jihad’ from the same group which presented “Islamofacism” and “Axis of Evil”.
The article argues that right wingers use the term:
“stealth jihad” in attempts to make the terrorist threat broader and thus more nefarious than it already is. The only thing scarier than an invisible, homicidal, suicidal enemy with a taste for world domination is one who’s sneaking up on you”.
Miller quotes former White House speaker Newt Gingririch who accuses the Muslims of promoting ’stealth jihad’ to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia.”
The term is the title of a two-year-old book by Robert Spencer, founder of the Stop Islamization of America group whose so called antiterrorist blog, Jihad Watch, is cited and dispersed widely on the far right. The latest controversy over the proposed building of the Ground Zero Mosque has apparently given the green light to Gingrich as an excuse to use freely the racist term “stealth jihad” and its variants including the offensive term “creeping sharia”.
Not only has right winged Gingrich targeted Muslims and used offensive terms describing them he has also victimized their “Muslim Brotherhood operatives, accusing the likes of :
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the center’s founder and leader are extremely skilled at obscuring … their true agenda,” said Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, on FOX’s Glenn Beck show. “It’s part of the stealth jihad.”
In fact the writer highlights that words matter, and:
“if you say them often enough and with enough authority, they start to sound true—even if they’re not. Abdul Rauf, for instance, has no affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood and is an“operative” (another nefarious word) only in the sense that running a small, progressive interfaith nonprofit is an “operation.”
The article emphasizes that logically “stealth jihad,” is in effect impossible to imagine such an event occurring.
Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley argues that the term ’stealth jihad’ is ludicrous bringing to mind the anticommunist campaigns of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, stressing that:
“Just as McCarthyites imagined a communist behind every lamppost, the word “stealth” conflates all Muslims with terrorists. In a stealth campaign you never know who your friends are”.
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Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch combining In October 2003 I started not one, but two daily weblogs: Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch. The rough idea at the outset was to report on violent jihad activity at Jihad Watch, and at manifestations of dhimmitude by...
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Fatah, Gaffney, Spencer, Nauert, DarwishFrom the Center for Security Policy, February 11:On Monday, February 10, the Fox News Strategy Room presented an hour-long panel discussion on the 'stealth jihad' called Terror From Within. The Center's...
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Muslim Brotherhood Applauds Newsweek for Attacking “Stealth Jihad and Creeping Sharia” as Racist Terms
Newsweek, putting the useful in useful idiot. Via the Muslim Brotherhood’s official English language website, Ikhwanweb.
Stealth Jihad and Creeping Sharia, truly racist terms- Ikhwanweb
Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek describing the latest fad by anti-Islamists to promote their semantic assault by using terms such as ’stealth jihad’ from the same group which presented “Islamofacism” and “Axis of Evil”.
The article argues that right wingers use the term:
“stealth jihad” in attempts to make the terrorist threat broader and thus more nefarious than it already is. The only thing scarier than an invisible, homicidal, suicidal enemy with a taste for world domination is one who’s sneaking up on you”.
Miller quotes former White House speaker Newt Gingririch who accuses the Muslims of promoting ’stealth jihad’ to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia.”
The term is the title of a two-year-old book by Robert Spencer, founder of the Stop Islamization of America group whose so called antiterrorist blog, Jihad Watch, is cited and dispersed widely on the far right. The latest controversy over the proposed building of the Ground Zero Mosque has apparently given the green light to Gingrich as an excuse to use freely the racist term “stealth jihad” and its variants including the offensive term “creeping sharia”.
Not only has right winged Gingrich targeted Muslims and used offensive terms describing them he has also victimized their “Muslim Brotherhood operatives, accusing the likes of :
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the center’s founder and leader are extremely skilled at obscuring … their true agenda,” said Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, on FOX’s Glenn Beck show. “It’s part of the stealth jihad.”
In fact the writer highlights that words matter, and:
“if you say them often enough and with enough authority, they start to sound true—even if they’re not. Abdul Rauf, for instance, has no affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood and is an“operative” (another nefarious word) only in the sense that running a small, progressive interfaith nonprofit is an “operation.”
The article emphasizes that logically “stealth jihad,” is in effect impossible to imagine such an event occurring.
Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley argues that the term ’stealth jihad’ is ludicrous bringing to mind the anticommunist campaigns of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, stressing that:
“Just as McCarthyites imagined a communist behind every lamppost, the word “stealth” conflates all Muslims with terrorists. In a stealth campaign you never know who your friends are”.
- Assembly Of Muslim Jurists Of America Say "no Offensive Jihad At This Time" ... Later Yeah, Just Not Now
From Radical Islam.Org: The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) opposes offensive jihad in the West, but for reasons that may surprise you. In an Arabic fatwa (religious decree) that doesn’t appear on its English...
- A Look Back At 2010: Year Of Bowing To Islam
Sobering and cumulative. From Creeping Sharia, citing Patrick Poole's essay at Pajamas Media:Appeasement and outreach are no match for the enemy’s civilizational jihad. At the end of last year I reflected here at Pajamas Media that 2009 represented...
- Jihad Watch Heads Up
Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch combining In October 2003 I started not one, but two daily weblogs: Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch. The rough idea at the outset was to report on violent jihad activity at Jihad Watch, and at manifestations of dhimmitude by...
- Fox News - Gaffney, Spencer, Fatah And Darwish Attempt To Discuss Islam, Jamaat Al Fuqra, Sharia And Cair
Fatah, Gaffney, Spencer, Nauert, DarwishFrom the Center for Security Policy, February 11:On Monday, February 10, the Fox News Strategy Room presented an hour-long panel discussion on the 'stealth jihad' called Terror From Within. The Center's...
- Infidel Bloggers Alliance Radio Show
Stealth Robert Spencer An interview with Robert Spencer like you've never heard before. Who knew the guy is a jazz musician? Not me. But, most importantly, we talk about Robert's newest book, Stealth Jihad. Listen. :) ...