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May 08, 2008
Now MORE Words Added to Language Target List of No NO's
"It is absurd: how can the most advanced society in human history fall to death cultists? Well, who do you think advanced societies fall to? Something worse, something barbarous, something prepared to fight when you're not." - Mark Steyn, in America Alone
U.S. aims to unlink Islamic, terrorism
U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedeen, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism.
"There' s a growing consensus [in the Bush administration] that we need to move away from that language," said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue.
Instead, in two documents circulated last month by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the multiagency center charged with strategic coordination of the U.S. war on terror, officials are urged to use terms such as violent extremists, totalitarian and death cult to characterize al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
"Avoid labeling everything 'Muslim.' It reinforces the 'U.S. vs. Islam' framework that al Qaeda promotes," according to "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counter-Terrorism Communication," produced last month by the center.
"You have a large percentage of the world' s population that subscribes to this religion," the former official said. "Unintentionally alienating them is not a judicious move."
The documents, first reported by the Associated Press, were posted online last week by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
They highlight developments in the Bush administration's strategy for its war on terror that have been fiercely criticized by some who have been its closest allies on the issue, and apparently are being ignored by the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Some commentators noted after President Bush' s State of the Union speech in January that Mr. McCain had stopped using the term Islamic terrorism, instead referring — as the NCTC guide recommends — to "terrorists and extremists — evil men who despise freedom, despise America, and aim to subject millions to their violent rule."
But in a recent interview with The Washington Times, a McCain aide said the senator would continue to use the term Islamic terrorism.
Daniel Sutherland, who runs the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, insisted that the avoidance of the term Islam in conjunction with terrorism "is in no way an exercise in political correctness. ... We are not watering down what we say."
"There are some terms which al Qaeda wants us to use because they are helpful to them," he said.
The "Words That Work" guide notes, "Although the al Qaeda network exploits religious sentiments and tries to use religion to justify its actions, we should treat it as an illegitimate political organization, both terrorist and criminal."
Instead of calling terrorist groups Muslim or Islamic, the guide suggests using words like totalitarian, terrorist or violent extremist — "widely understood terms that define our enemies appropriately and simultaneously deny them any level of legitimacy."
By employing the language the extremists use about themselves, the guide says, officials can inadvertently help legitimize them in the eyes of Muslims.
"Never use the terms 'jihadist' or 'mujahedeen' ... to describe the terrorists," the guide says. "A mujahed, a holy warrior, is a positive characterization in the context of a just war.
In Arabic, jihad means 'striving in the path of God' and is used in many contexts beyond warfare. Calling our enemies jihadis and their movement a global jihad unintentionally legitimizes their actions."
A longer document produced by Mr. Sutherland' s office and also circulated by the NCTC compiles advice from Islamic community leaders and religious professionals in the United States about terminology officials should use and avoid.
"Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims," says officials should use "terms such as 'death cult,' 'cult-like,' 'sectarian cult,' and 'violent cultists' to describe the ideology and methodology of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups."
It also recommends eschewing the terms Islamist or Islamism — the advocacy of a political system based on Islam — "because the general public, including overseas audiences, may not appreciate the academic distinction between Islamism and Islam."
The use of the term may be accurate, the document says, but "it may not be strategic for [U.S. government] officials to use the term."
Wild Thing's comment........
OK So now we add two more words to the list.
News flash for the Bush/Rice State Department: since the downfall of the USSR, 99% of terrorists are MUSLIMS. ISLAMOFACISM is a real movement.
And last but not least......
ISLAMIC TERRORISM is an accurate description. ISLAM is the cause. TERRORISM is the effect.
"U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim"
So these are the two new words added to the list : Muslim and Islamic. I have added them to the skull. If this keeps up I will have to get a bigger skull! Good grief!
My other post on this on April 25th, 2008
Bush Administration Targets Language In War On Terrorism
Posted by Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 02:45 AM
Comments
But the wacked out evil wahabbi islamofascist butchers can CHANT daily: "Death to America" ...
"Death to Bush & Israel" ... "Great Satan"...
"INFIDELS" .... "NON-BELIEVERS" ... "Capitalist Pigs" ... "The Devils"...
So if the shoe, er SANDAL fits, wear it? ISLAMOFASCISM is reality and 9-11-01 WAS reality.
Bush is a lame duck and should quack off to Crawford like... yesterday. - Al Z. Heimer 2008
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at May 8, 2008 04:35 AM
What, no MODERATE Muslims? No MODERATE Nazis? No MODERATE Soviets? No MODERATE Jap Kamikazes? No MODERATE Chicoms? No MODERATE
Islamofascists? No MODERATE Hamas? No MODERATE Hezbollah? No MODERATE Mujihadeen? No MODERATE Hollyweirdo Mosh Pit Liberal Lunes?.....Hmmmm? Where have I been Wild Thing?
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at May 8, 2008 05:18 AM
I claim the first! The First Amendment that is. This is still a free country and I will call them as I see them. Even Archie Bunker knew that.
And Bush used to know that, too. He used to call Evil "evil." He used to be a straight shooting cowboy, but now he's a used up wrinkly old prune.
But that didn't happen until we elected all those damn democrats and Rinos.
Posted by: Lynn at May 8, 2008 05:24 AM
This is one of the reasons I bash Bush. I want to like the guy, but Damn, we are in different worlds. He seems to want to not be disliked by anyone, so now he is the lowest rated president in history.
Bush has not been a leader. He has no fireside chats where he explains what he he is doing and why. We have to rely on the occasional media event where he is attacked.He may have been cheerleader in college, but Bush is not cheering me up. I support his war, but he explains it poorly.
Also, I will continue to call the enemy muslims. In videos I notice our front line troops call the enemy "mooj". Guess the troops did not get the word about political correctness.
Posted by: TomR at May 8, 2008 12:01 PM
As the saying goes, "What a crock!"
Can anyone refer me to the stories in the MSM that talk about how Muslims and Islamic countries are changing their rhetoric because it offends Westerners and non-Muslims? Until they change their offensive words the terrorists and their state-sponsored and other supporters will all be savage and evil Islamofascist and Muslim Jihadist bastards.
Posted by: Les at May 8, 2008 05:08 PM
Darth, yep. Bush has a chance to go out strong, it is upsetting that he is wanting to go out of office with weak decisions.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 05:10 PM
drstrangeloveb52isok, LOL well er ah, moderate is made up in some liberal rino half brained mind some place since it never makes things happen in the world.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 05:12 PM
Lynn, AMEN and yes eveen Archie Bunker knew about the 1st Amendment.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 05:14 PM
Tom, haha yes I lvoe what our troops call the enemy.
I know what you mean Tom. There are things about Bush that I do like even today this late in his terms. But they get fewer and fewer all the time when he keeps pulling off stuff like this. His not being a conservartive keeps getting stronger all the time and his not caring how we the people will be upset to see so much against America happening.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 05:17 PM
Les, exactly, they sure don't worry about what they call us, and what it means. Enough of this weak way of fighting the enemy.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 8, 2008 05:19 PM
I ran across this while looking for some pictures to send in response to a message on a yahoo message board.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990085/posts
By MARK STEYN
Syndicated columnist
My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain:
"Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims."
Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer sufficient.
So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated "anti-Islamic activity." Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. "There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief," she told her audience. "Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic."
Well, yes, one sort of sees what she means. Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be "anti-Islamic" – in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an "anti-German activity."
Posted by: Bob at May 9, 2008 09:47 AM
I found this little tidbit at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990085/posts
Saturday, January 26, 2008 Mark Steyn: First, they came for Piglet
By MARK STEYN
Syndicated columnist
My favorite headline of the year so far comes from the Daily Mail in Britain:
"Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As anti-Islamic Activity' To Woo Muslims."
Her Majesty's government is not alone in feeling it's not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed "respect" is no longer sufficient.
So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated "anti-Islamic activity." Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. "There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief," she told her audience. "Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic."
Well, yes, one sort of sees what she means. Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be "anti-Islamic" – in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an "anti-German activity."
Western civilization is a mighty house of bricks, but who needs a Big Bad Wolf when the pig's so eager to demolish it himself?
Posted by: Bob at May 9, 2008 10:04 AM
