Britain Eliminates Islamic Terrorism

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Wed Feb 6, 2008 at 8:37 am PST • Views: 391

The British government has, amazingly, managed to completely eliminate “Islamic terrorism” and “jihad.”

From their vocabulary.

‘Don’t mention Islamic extremists’: Government phrasebook tries to avoid upsetting Muslims.

The Government has drawn up a controversial phrasebook on the language of terrorism and is insisting civil servants no longer blame fanatical extremism on Islam, for fear of upsetting the Muslim community.

The new counter-terrorism guidelines suggest that phrases such as “Islamic terrorist” and “jihadi fundamentalism” are too inflammatory and imply that all Muslims explicitly are responsible for extremism.

Instead the leaked Home Office document advises Whitehall bosses that they refer to violent extremism and criminal murderers or thugs to avoid any link between Islam and terrorism.

However, the war on terror handbook has provoked an unfavourable response from people claiming the Government are bowing under the pressure of political correctness.

The document warns that civil servants, police forces and local councils should abandon “aggressive rhetoric”.

It also claims that the use of concepts like “the struggle for values” or “a battle of ideas” plays into the hands of those who wish to frame the issue in terms of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West. A more productive approach is to stress the idea of shared values, it suggests.

“This is not intended as a definitive list of what not to say but rather to highlight terms which risk being misunderstood and therefore prevent the effective reception of the message,” states the document, part of a pack created by the Home Office and Department for Communities and Local Government.

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