President Bush to Stop Linking Al Qaeda to Muslims

 What a bunch of bullshit this is. President Bush and other government officials are going to stop calling  al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations Islamic or Muslims. On top of that they are also going to stop using the terms  jihad and mujahedeen.

“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.

 The theory is that we are legitimizing them by calling them by name. The MUSLIM and ISLAMIST TERRORISTS don’t need us to call them what they are to feel legitimised. They feel legitimized by their interpretation of the Koran. What is so hard to understand about this?

“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.”

 How many times must it be said? We are not talking about everybody who subscribes to this religion as terrorists, we are talking about a small minority of this religion who are terrorists. So what are acceptable terms for these terrorists who shall remain nameless?

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.

 Can you imagine if during WWII we stopped calling Nazis by their name so we wouldn’t legitimise them? Can you imagine not being able to use the word Komakazi because it would somehow legitimize them?

 This is very dissapointing from President Bush. Caving in to this type of political correctness is unnesseccary and stupid. It will accomplsh nothing. Not calling them by their name will not make them go away. If we can’t even call the terrorists what they are than they have already won. They have beaten us from within. And if that is so then it is time to just end the war, come home, and wait. Wait for the end, because political correctness is going to bring an end to this country as we know it.