Complaining About Words, About Nothing

CONSERVATIVES COMPLAIN that Obama refuses to use the term "radical Islamic terrorism". You've heard them do this. They make the same complaint about Hillary. Obama has responded that none of his advisers has ever told him that to use that expression would aid in the war against terrorism. That doesn't seem to make any difference. the complaints still come, as if the complaints are a force of nature, unstoppable. There's a better reason, and it bears repeating. In the United States is a venerable, traditional, conservative organization, the Ku Klux Klan, i.e., the KKK. This is a radical, extremist, Christian terrorist organization. Terrorist, because it has murdered thousands of people for the purpose of making a political statement, which is what terrorism does. Christian, because, in order to become a member, one must be a Christian, more specifically, a protestant. They burn crosses as a way to make a statement. Christian terrorism. And yet, when have you ever heard the klan described as a "radical Christian terrorist organization? The answer is: never. Why not? Because there are millions of good hearted mainstream American Christians who repudiate the Klan, who consider it, appropriately, evil. And these people do not want the KKK to be in any way associated with the Christian faith. most of the mainstream Christian community most likely prefer not to even think of Klansmen as true Christians, people trying to follow the example of Jesus. They wish to distance themselves and their religious faith from this terrorist organization, understandably so. Obama refuses to use the term "radical Islamic terrorism" for the same reason. there are nearly two billion good hearted Muslims in the world, and they haven't the slightest desire to associate themselves and their faith with terrorists. Rather, they wish to distance themselves from terrorism, and overwhelmingly they undoubtedly consider terrorists to be people who have forfeited their claim to membership in the community of Islamic believers. Obama, and other people who do not use the term "Islamic terrorism" understand this, and choose to respect it. Obama also understands that by assisting the Islamic community in distancing itself from murderers, there is a tendency to build a better alliance with Islam in fighting terrorism. There can be no better ally in fighting terrorism than the world's nearly two billion good Muslim people, and there is no need to disrespect or alienate them. Obama understands this, while his critics refuse to, almost as if they are not intellectually capable of it. More probably, they simply wish to keep the complaint alive, because they have no desire to miss an opportunity to complain about Obama.........PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH BY SHARING THIS WEBSITE WITH OTHERS. THANKS!