Lou Enrique Dobbs

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Lou Dobbs

No, events like these have become a matter of course in a house where archconservative Tancredo's campaign stickers already adorn the bumper of my father's car; where Lou Dobbs blares from the TV every night and anti-immigration websites like FAIR and VDare are favorites on the family computer; where the lingua franca around the dinner table includes phrases like "broken borders" and "out-of-control immigration."

Yes, my father is a bona-fide anti-immigration activist.That said, everything else you might assume about him is wrong.He spent four decades as a public school teacher in a low-income, mostly immigrant school district, and remains a card-carrying member of the National Education Association.

Lou Dobbs, host of the nightly CNN business show "Moneyline," said on the air Wednesday that he is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" in favor of the more specific "war on Islamists." He says the enemy is not terror, but radical Islamists who argue that non-believers should be killed. "This is not a war against Muslims or Islam or Islamics," Dobbs says."It is a war against Islamists and all who support them, and if ever there were a time for clarity, it is now.We hope this new policy is a step in the right direction." It was unclear Thursday whether Dobbs was permanently abandoning "war on terror" as a phrase or if he was simply, as a spokeswoman suggested, starting a dialogue with viewers.Dobbs says he would use it as part of his commentaries and analysis. "Is the terminology adequate?"Dobbs asked."I don't know.To me it is clearer and it is one of the reasons we're talking with leading authorities on radical fundamentalism and Middle East scholars." A spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee says he disagrees with use of the phrase "Islamists" and believes it is no more precise than what is being used now.

No, events like these have become a matter of course in a house where archconservative Tancredo's campaign stickers already adorn the bumper of my father's car; where Lou Dobbs blares from the TV every night and anti-immigration websites like FAIR and VDare are favorites on the family computer; where the lingua franca around the dinner table includes phrases like "broken borders" and "out-of-control immigration."

Yes, my father is a bona-fide anti-immigration activist. That said, everything else you might assume about him is wrong. He spent four decades as a public school teacher in a low-income, mostly immigrant school district, and remains a card-carrying member of the National Education Association.

Host: Lou Dobbs
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Lou Enrique Dobbs

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Lou Dobbs, host of the nightly CNN business show "Moneyline," said on the air Wednesday that he is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" in favor of the more specific "war on Islamists."

He said the enemy is not terror, but radical Islamists who argue that nonbelievers should be killed.

"This is not a war against Muslims or Islam or Islamics," Dobbs said."It is a war against Islamists and all who support them, and if ever there were a time for clarity, it is now.We hope this new policy is a step in the right direction."

It was unclear whether Dobbs was permanently abandoning "war on terror" as a phrase or if he was simply, as a spokeswoman suggested, starting a dialogue with viewers.Dobbs said he would use it as part of his commentaries and analysis.

A spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said he disagrees with use of the phrase "Islamists" and believes it is no more precise than what is being used now.

On Apr. 24, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a longtime media watchdog group, issued a press release pointing out that anti-immigrant fervour was being stirred up on a regular basis by Lou Dobbs, the host of CNN's nightly programme "Lou Dobbs Tonight."

FAIR pointed out that "Dobbs' tone on immigration is consistently alarmist; he warns his viewers of Mexican immigrants who see themselves as an 'army of invaders' intent upon re-annexing parts of the Southwestern U.S. to Mexico, announces that 'illegal alien smugglers and drug traffickers are on the verge of ruining some of our national treasures,' and declares that 'the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans' through 'deadly imports' of diseases like leprosy and malaria."