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diamondseeker2006|1468733788|4056261 said:AGBF said:DS-
How is President Obama responsible for fundamentalist religious movements in other countries? I strongly disagree that he should alienate all Muslims by emphasizing that many people in the United States are not Muslim and therefore that we condemn all Islam. Is he, now, supposed to speak out on everything? What about his speaking out on that athlete who beat his child with a switch? Was that, also, his job? Many people in our country as well as in other countries have practices that I regard as primitive. We may be able to outlaw them in the United States. We have less power in other sovereign nations. Perhaps we should start with reforming our own country first. Let's get rid of our own violence against women and children.
Deb, I didn't say the president is responsible for fundamentalist religious movements in other countries. But the terrorists in Nice and San Bernadino, etc. had an ideology in common. That ideology is alive here in the US. No one on this thread has said it applies to all Muslims since that would be absurd. But others have pointed out that there hasn't been a huge outcry against extremism by the broader Muslim community leadership in the US, either. There should be no offense to modern American Muslims who reject Sharia law and embrace the law and freedom we offer here by using the term "radical Islamic terrorism". Hillary Clinton will use the term.
I'm not big on forcing the president to say the magic words. I think trying to make him say them is a Republican trick, actually. And divisive as hell in the Muslim world. And bad for US foreign policy.
On the other hand, if wife beating is terrorism, it should be called that when done by white Christian males in the US, too. And actually, I have NOTHING against calling it that. OR in having the terrorism penalties apply to wife-beating males. Re-open Guantanamo and waterboard them.
AGBF