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This speech reinforces to me the notion that Islam in itself is not the problem, but rather, the religious extremists who are painting the religion, in his words, as "terrorists and backward".
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but this has been the case all along: why wait until now to decide that there is a problem with how the present administration and its media apparatus portray islam?
the quote you refer to in the last bit in your post refers not to "extremists" but precisely to the basically racist selling of war by parties like the bush people:
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Al-Sheik also said that campaigns were being waged against the people of Islam -- "military campaigns, thought campaigns, economic campaigns, and media campaigns.
"They are all against this religion. The nation was described as a terrorist nation, that we are terrorists and backward," he said. "Conferences have been held and conspiracies have been woven ... all unjustly and unfairly."
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