Charlie Rangel: Don't Call it 'Islamic Terrorism'

Top House Democrat Charlie Rangel said Tuesday that it was an act of discrimination to label groups like Hezbollah "Islamic terrorists."
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"To call it Islamic terror is discriminating, it's bigoted, it is not the right thing to say." Rangel even questioned whether, in fact, a worldwide Islamic terrorist movement even existed, saying, "We just take for granted that there is an Islamic terror movement because we do have some fanatic people who come from Islamic countries."

The Harlem Democrat complained: "When we had the Ku Klux Klan we didn't call them Baptist terrorists. When Hitler was killing Jews, we didn't call it Christian terrorists."

What!!?! Does he really believe this? I guess what I’m asking is, is he saying something he knows is false, or is he foolish enough to not get why Hizb’Allah should be called an Islamic terrorist group? OK. Take a big breath. Let’s assume he just needs to be informed. Here goes:

The KKK weren’t called “Baptist terrorists” because they didn’t do what they did in the name of the American Baptist denomination. They didn’t refer to themselves as a Baptist movement, and as far as I know, they didn’t speak out against Lutherans or Presbyterians. They did what they did in the name of white power, so we called them “white supremacists”. See how that works? With me so far? Good. Let’s go to the next one.

Hitler’s movement didn’t quote Jesus very much. It didn’t refer to itself as Christian. It didn’t say “We need to take over Europe for Christianity.” The National Socialists (Nazis) claimed to be working for National Socialism and for the ascendancy of Aryan people. So we called them “Nazis”. The only Christian terrorists, as such, are in Northern Ireland, and they’ve been fairly quiet sine 9/11. Not complicated, right?

Now, Hizb’Allah is spelled “Hezbollah” in the mainstream media to conceal that their Arabic name means “Army of Allah”. Everything they do, they do in the name of Islam. They publicly announce their desire to kill infidels and bring the world to Allah. Get it? They’re not terrorists who oh-by-the-way-did-I-forget-to-mention happen to be Muslim. They're Islamic terrorists!

As a final example of accurate labeling, When Charlie Rangel rants about his opinion that breakfast cereals are too expensive, and when he thinks that The Army of Allah are not Islamic terrorists, we are right in calling him a socialist moron.

- served up by Doctor Bean @ 1:04 PM