EU guidebook: Don't link Islam with terror
- From: "Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:25:53 -0400
The pity is that it will take the next 9/11, and there will be one, to knock
this out-and how many will have died on the altar of political correctness?
EU guidebook: Don't link Islam with terror
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54954
A classified European Union handbook advises government spokesmen not to
link Islam and terrorism in their statements, banning words such as "jihad,"
"Islamic" or "fundamentalist."
The EU guidelines offer "non-offensive" phrases to use when dealing with
terrorism-related issues, the Daily Telegraph of London reported.
In the U.S., as WND reported, Department of Homeland Security employees have
complained their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror
operations with pro-Islamic political correctness.
The EU handbook reportedly says the term "jihad" must be avoided, because it
can mean for Muslims a personal struggle to live a moral life.
The EU suggested publicly last year the term "Islamic terrorism" is to be
replaced by "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam."
An EU official told the Telegraph the secret guidebook aims to prevent
distortion of Islam and alienation of Muslims in Europe.
"The common lexicon includes guidance on a number of frequently used terms
where lack of care by EU and member states' spokespeople may give rise to
misunderstandings," he said.
The official insisted careful usage of certain terms "is not about empty
political correctness but stems from astute awareness of the EU's interests
in the fight against terrorism."
British officials are "fully signed up" to the guidelines but say they are
not binding.
A member of the Independence Party in the British Parliament, Gerard Batten,
charged the EU is in denial over the true roots of terrorism.
"This type of newspeak shows that the EU refuses to face reality," he told
the Telegraph. "The major world terrorist threat is one posed by ideology
and that ideology is inspired by fundamentalist jihadi Islam."
Meanwhile, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some employees say
Secretary Chertoff has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism
as Islamic and to respect Islam as a "religion of peace."
"It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the
terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam," said one
official who wished to go unnamed.
Chertoff set the tone in a staffwide memo last year, when he described as
"extremists" the two dozen Muslim terrorists who plotted to blow up 10
airliners over the Atlantic. Unlike British authorities, Chertoff did not
mention the religious motivation of the terrorists. Nowhere in the one-page
memo were the terms "Muslim" or "Islamic" used.
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