What's in a Name?
Not surprisingly, some Muslims in California are objecting to the linking of their faith to the events of 9/11 in school textbooks.
Too bad. The term the textbooks use is "extremist Islamic terrorists" and it strikes me as eminently fair. At this point, the burden is on the objectors to explain how they would describe the hijackers.
All honest people have to recognize that they're not from a single country -- instead, they're believers in a single, radical ideology . . . an extremist Islamofacist ideology. It's important to call things by their proper names, and efforts to introduce even more PC elements into school curricula should be uniformly rejected.
Too bad. The term the textbooks use is "extremist Islamic terrorists" and it strikes me as eminently fair. At this point, the burden is on the objectors to explain how they would describe the hijackers.
All honest people have to recognize that they're not from a single country -- instead, they're believers in a single, radical ideology . . . an extremist Islamofacist ideology. It's important to call things by their proper names, and efforts to introduce even more PC elements into school curricula should be uniformly rejected.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:41 AM
1 Comments:
Let them object. It would seem that it is up to them to separate themselves from those who are hacking off heads and blowing up planes. As stated, the term is specific and not encompassing all of Islam. If they can't understand the distinction, they need to ask and listen.
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