About the title with Islamist Intelligence, I guess in their effort to make it concised, they made the title cryptic – what they seem to have meant is that the US had intelligence information of the contact of this army shooter with an Islamist group. Of course it should have been worded differently.

An Islamist may be understood as an extremist, orthodox person who is using Islam for anti-humanitarian activities. In contrast, a Muslim may or may not be orthodox in a religious sense, but is not anti-humanitarian.

Much the same as the made up word ‘Islamophobe’ eh?

My “moderate” Muslim friend swears up and down this is not the case at all. He says, “Did you ever get this impression from me or your other Syrian friends?” He swears they don’t even want a country run by sharia after seeing how disagreeable so-called Muslim countries have been … all the while calling themselves “Islamic countries.”

Carol, I often think of an Islamist as one who is more militant in his Muslim beliefs. That’s the connotation I’ve gotten from reading things the last few years. If they are talking about peaceful Muslims – the vast majority, they use Muslims. “Islamist” militarizes it.

He was extremely clear in his presentation, drawing a connection between conflicts of loyalties for Muslims and Muslim doctrines, fatwas, etc.

If you don’t think this is an issue specifically related to Islam, argue with him and his presentation. Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/yjbszhm

I looked at it, it looks pretty well grounded to me.

Islamist does seem to connote a formal movement with violence at its core.

Interesting, I wonder if the perpetrator went to medical school paid for by the US ignoring the fact that the US had been at war in the ME for 8 years Did he think he would not have to serve??

The reason that america will not use it’s media as a tool is because IMO they want to take extreme care not to slander people (Muslims) who are not of the extremist ideology. Because you think that america has a war against Muslims you don’t understand what the war is about. It is not about Muslims…people who live peaceably with their fellow citizens should not be lumped in with those who would do whatever they could to get rid of those who do not adhere to their own extremist ideologies and that would include other Muslims who believe in coexistence.

The problem with attitudes like yours is that you believe because we have issues with terrorists that kill and bomb not only non Muslims but vast amounts of Muslims as well, that we are against ALL Muslims as a whole. Ridiculous. And because care is taken (sometimes to the extreme of political correctness) to try to weed out the extremists from the NON who don’t deserve the slander, sometimes extremists slip through.

if america is in a war against Muslims then i do not understand why it will NOT use its media as a tool against the Muslims. but this is alll normal. stupidity is when Muslims believe the media and stand up against their own people…
people who are so ignorant tht they are willing to travel thousands of miles fighting against “extremists” yet they dont wanna put a little effort digging the truth OR hearing the other side…