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Don’t Call It What It Is
Posted by Raven on May 7th, 2008
It’s been happening since 2004: The war on terror warriors have been going soft. September 11th has been forgotten, even by those who swore they never would forget.
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.
When we forget history, it repeats itself.
