Bush Returns to the "Religion of Peace" Formulation

by Daniel Pipes
October 4, 2007
updated Dec 28, 2007

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/10/bush-returns-to-the-religion-of-peace

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"I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace," George W. Bush told an Arabic-language television station today, recalling the "religion of peace" phrasing he used in the aftermath of 9/11.

Comment: (1) This statement comes as a keen disappointment to me, who has for years been chronicling the president's increasing realism about the nature of Islam. (2) But it does not come as a shock, for he has been steadily abandoning the more robust policies of his middle years. (3) One worries to think where his presidency will end in just over a year. (October 4, 2007)

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Title	By	Date
Islamic peace? [47 words]	The lone cat	Jun 4, 2009 21:11
Praising Islam as peaceful may be a lie -- but it can help get us a peaceful Islam [208 words]	Michael Bernet	Dec 31, 2007 12:25
Weak President of USA [95 words]	f.sha	Dec 31, 2007 02:09
"Religion of Peace"??? [172 words]	Patricia Zentara	Dec 30, 2007 20:22
Religion of Peace [76 words]	Dannel R. Ballesteros	Dec 30, 2007 17:46
Peaceful Religion ? I Don't Think So. [266 words]	clarence paul puckett	Dec 30, 2007 17:32
Reality Check for Bush [109 words]	John Green	Dec 30, 2007 14:49
Islam - A Bipolar Religion [433 words]	Raymond S Kraft	Dec 30, 2007 13:56
↔ Bipolar Religion [28 words]	Boyd White	Jan 28, 2009 18:55
HE SAID WHAT???? [58 words]	MJ	Dec 30, 2007 13:18
Bush Returns to the Religion of Peace formulation. [429 words]	kim segar	Dec 30, 2007 12:56

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