Is it rational to fear ISIS & Al Quaida? So why does the press call it Islamophobia?
I was taught "phobia" means "an irrational fear of"...but it's rational to be afraid to get your head chopped off, isn't it? Is this PC run amok, or just another attempt to grab you with a headline?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/french-muslims-caught-between-rising-islamophobia-and-growing-extremism/2015/03/22/7359329c-c739-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html
Skeptical suspicion and analytic consideration leading to heuristic rapid assessments until disproven in order to reduce lethal surprise? That's justified.
As to your statement "That is truly the result of terrorism, if you break it down to the simplest definition, it causes fear and that fear created a reaction." (I'm not sure what reaction you were referring to but regardless) you may be interested in this thread: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-is-terrorism
You may also be interested in this other related thread started by another recipient of your copy-paste response: Col Joseph Lenertz https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/is-it-rational-to-fear-isis-al-quaida-so-why-does-the-press-call-it-islamophobia
What is Terrorism? | RallyPoint
Here on RP we've done a lot of talking about Terrorism, but it occurred to me we don't agree about what Terrorism is. Words have meaning, so we should probably hash this one out. It appears to be a pretty big task: Wikipedia says "There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the definition of the term terrorism" So let's look at it. A lot of us here have been involved in a "Global War on Terror". What have we...
CAIR is one of those organizations that have ties to illicit and threat networks that uses the term Islamaphobia. There was the case of the two Florida students who were traveling near a military installation in South Carolina and were stopped for speeding. When the officer approached the car he noticed that they acted suspicious hiding a laptop and some other behavior. When he looked in the trunk, he saw pipe bombs and explosives. The explosives were blown up in place and the story that CAIR spun was that these Egyptian college students were traveling the coast to shoot off fireworks and that the cops were Islamaphobic. CAIR held a number of press conferences and the FBI analysis showed that the items in the trunk were explosives and not fireworks. The two had traveled off of 95 by 40 miles because they were looking for cheap gas and were near a military installation known to hold HVI.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/426/indicted-usf-student-has-terror-past-in#
Indicted USF Student has Terror Past in Egypt - update*
Update: Sept. 5, 2007, 12:00 p.m. While the affidavit remains sealed, the warrant used by the FBI last month to search the home of one of the accused USF explosives suspects shows agents were after recorded evidence about making explosives and possible
You might be interested in a bit of an update.
PS - I'm not unmindfull of the fact that Ahmed Mohamed (NOT the "Clock Kid") was sentenced to 15 years in jail for a separate incident. Nor am I unmindful of the fact that Ahmed Mohamed (NOT the "Clock Kid") was legally in the United States of America because he was admitted by the US government in 2007 (BEFORE Mr. Obama became the President of the United States of America [just to prevent any possibly confusion on that point]) - even though he had been jailed in his native Egypt for "terrorist related" activities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/us/22deport.html?_r=0
Immigration Judge Clears Egyptian Student Youssef Megahed on Terrorism Charge
An immigration court ruled the government did not show that a former engineering student was engaged in or would probably engage in terrorist activities.
New ISIS manual shows US in crosshairs; FBI has 900 ongoing ISIS-related investigations | Pamela...
“You should make sure to not look particularly attached to religion. A man who works on a secret operation should meddle in the general population. If you can avoid having a beard, wearing qamis (Islamic clothes), using miswak (a sort of toothbrush recommended in the hadiths), and have a booklet of dhikr (Islamic devotional booklet) with you, it’s better. Also, you shouldn’t be going to often to places like mosques, Islamic institutes or...
However, to put the figures into context, could you let me know how many active investigations the FBI has right now? Could you let me know how many active homicide investigations the FBI has right now? Could you let me know how many active investigations ALL police/enforcement/investigative arms of the US government have right now (and, of those, how many are [excluding duplications of effort] concerned with terrorist "ties"?
On the other hand, "the media" works on the presumption that they make the majority of their profit from people who have (a maximum of) a 30 second attention span and who wouldn't recognize a nuance if it bit them on the butt.
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” - H.L. Mencken [Chicago Tribune - 19 SEP 1926] {Frequently misquoted as 'Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.'}
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
As Judge Andrew Nepolitano once stated the Constitution was established to protect the speech "we fear, hate and loathe," because "the speech we like doesn't need protection."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/24/andrew-napolitano-protecting-hatred-preserves-free/?page=all
ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Protecting hatred preserves freedom
The tragedy of a mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, obviously motivated by racial hatred, has raised anew the issue of the lawfulness of the State expressing an opinion by flying a Confederate flag at the Statehouse, and the constitutionality of the use of the First Amendment to protect hate speech and hate groups. The State has no business expressing opinions on anything, and it is required to protect hate. Here is the law....