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Islamists in Oregon are now seething and whining and demanding retractions over an email from a pesticide-industry lobbyist that contained the J word: ‘Jihad’ reference prompts complaint.

SALEM, Ore. — A Portland Muslim leader is asking a pesticide-industry lobbyist to retract a statement in which she warned that Senate Democrats had declared “jihad” against Republicans over an environmental dispute.
Shahriar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton, said use of the term in an e-mail dealing with a controversy over a pesticide-use reporting program perpetuates negative stereotypes about Muslims. “The term ‘jihad’ here was used intentionally to aggravate the situation,” Ahmed said during a news conference yesterday.
The word has been used by Muslim extremists to describe holy war, but Ahmed said mainstream Muslims use the Arabic word to describe a person’s internal struggle to do good.
Ahmed went to the Capitol to criticize an e-mail sent by lobbyist Paulette Pyle of the pesticide-user group Oregonians for Food and Shelter.
In a July 15 e-mail to about 500 farmers and foresters, Pyle warned that “the Senate Democrats have declared ‘JIHAD’ against the Republicans because they are opposed to [Pesticide Use Reporting System] funding.” Pyle said she meant nothing derogatory about Muslims and only used the term in an e-mail to members and supporters of the pesticide group as a way to highlight the issue.
Airhead victocrat politicians have apparently realized that the term “racist” is absurd when applied to people who criticize Islam—so they’ve coined a new word:
Ahmed was joined at yesterday’s news conference by Sen. Frank Shields, D-Portland, who said it appeared that the word was used in the e-mail in a “racist and religionist” way.