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"Islam is peace" George W. Bush

The doublespeak expression “The Religion of Peace” to describe Islam was coined from a George W. Bush statement shortly after the 9/11 attacks:

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.

As we were reminded by the then Chairman of the British National Party this was said “to avoid an explosion of hostility against Muslims” by leaving the impression that the central message of the Koran is all about peace and love; that “Islam… is Christianity with a towel on its head.”

Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State ... joining is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either to join or carry weapons [fight] wherever you are.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an audio message made public May 14, 2015

Couillard and Macron’s Challenge

Quebec Premier Couillard, in change of tone, ties Michigan attack to Islam

Quebec’s Premier has sent “a shock wave” through his province’s Muslim communities after he linked the lone-wolf attacker who stabbed a Michigan police officer to the wider Islamic religion ...

“You cannot disconnect this type of event, terrorism, from Islam in general,” Mr. Couillard said. “I think President [Emmanuel] Macron yesterday was very eloquent about this when addressing the Muslim community in France. He told them it’s also your responsibility to act on the theological front to explain to your people that this is not part of the religion, that it’s contrary to the teachings of the religion.”

The Globe and Mail, June 22, 2017

Rather than accept this gracious invitation to an honest dialogue about Islamic scriptures as we have been advocating here for years, the now ubiquitous female spokesperson for the Muslim community, as we have come to expect, disingenuously demurred before making the predictable attack on a uniquely qualified messenger*.

Shaheen Ashraf, a Quebec board member of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, said she “is very disappointed” in the Premier for putting the onus on her community. “You don’t think we try?” Ms. Ashraf said. “You can tell the community Islam is a religion of peace until the cows come home and there will always be people who don’t want to hear you.”

... “When Mr. Couillard was supportive of Muslims it caused an uproar and now he’s trying to appease the public,” Ms. Ashraf said. “He’s pandering.”

The Globe and Mail

Rather than deal with the reality as expressed by a renowned, if notorious scholar of Islam they prefer to quote a scripturally-deficient US President because it suits their purpose.

The “community” is not listening because they know what they are being told is a lie. A lie that an accommodating press continues to give credence to and initiatives like Motion 103 would see given legislative cover.

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* Of all prominent Canadian politicians the Premier of Quebec is probably the most Islam aware. From 1992 to 1996, the former head of the department of neurosurgery at Montreal’s Hôpital Saint-Luc taught and practiced medicine in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Bernard Payeur, June 24,2017