and while I don't agree with their reasoning, I do understand their reasoning. I've never have a big issue with this. Sort of one of those things that the GOP gets their panties in a wad over and looks foolish doing so when their are so many actual things to worry about. I mean if the President won't say "Islamic Terrorist", big deal. Everybody knows who they are and what they are. His lack of saying those words means nothing. He can use the excuse that the extreme radicals are just a very small fraction of the Muslim population, fine. To each his own. If he wants to do that, so be it. No skin off my ass at all.
However in what is perhaps one of the biggest examples of blatant hypocrisy West of Atlantic Athletic Conference basketball territory, we have this, where the Dept of Homeland Security claims the need to focus on right-wing sovereign citizen extremists as a source of domestic terrorism. Interesting in that the White Houses justification for NOT using the term Islamic when describing middle Easterners who burn and behead people is that they don't want to prejudice ALL Muslims as radicals yet there is no aversion to do that with a "RIGHT WING" adjective. I'm right wing, but not a gun toting off the grid, build-a-bomb-in-my-garage kind of guy. I don't have a compound in the back woods of Mississippi where I have a stockpile of M-15 or M-16 (whatever) and grenade launchers. I don't know how to make a bomb out of fertilizer and drain-o or consider camo as formal wear. And if an American extremist ever chopped off the head or burned anybody alive, I'd be pissed and hope to hell that the bastards who did it would be caught. It appears as if its "RIGHT WING" then labelling them really wasn't a concern for Obama et al since DHS is part of his administration. Also likely means exactly what everybody expected, that the labelling in general aspect was BS because the specific label is what is important. Apparently its OK to label if the you're "right wing" with a negative connotation but can't do that with Muslim/Islam.
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
― Oscar Wilde,
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