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White House Bans Use of the Word “Islam” in Describing America’s Terrorist Enemies
The Woodward Report ^ | July 13, 2010

Posted on 07/13/2010 12:27:47 PM PDT by honestabe010

The Obama administration has introduced a new official policy banning the word "Islam" in describing America's terrorist enemies. The administration’s recently released National Security Strategy defines the enemy as “al-Qaeda and its terrorist affiliates”.

However, leading experts warn that failure to realize the Islamic component in terrorist acts is severely detrimental. In addition, such a policy is in contrast to the Top Afghan Commander General Petraeus’s counterinsurgency manual. In the manual, co-authored by General James Amos, it refers to "Islamic insurgents," "Islamic extremists" and "Islamic subversives." It also describes the various ties between Muslim support groups and terrorists.

In addition a recent policy report published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy titled “Fighting the Ideological Battle: The Missing Link in U.S. Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism” makes the case that al-Qaeda and its terrorist affiliates are not the most dangerous enemy, but instead it is “the extremist ideology that fuels and supports Islamist violence.”

It is not hard to see what is going on. The White House is under the impression that it needs to remove any “derogatory” remarks about the religion of Islam from its official vocabulary. They are attempting to create newspeak (as in George Orwell’s 1984). Obama thinks that this sort of pandering to the Islamic community will help improve U.S. relations with Muslim countries as well as remove recruiting propaganda from terrorist organizations.

The Washington Institute’s report stresses that it is imperative that the administration identifies Islamism as the “key ideological driver” responsible for terrorist activity across the globe. The report urges a policy that is tailored to combat not just the terrorist groups but the ideology itself...

(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bhoislamism; crushislam; democrats; dhimmicrats; islam; islamicterrorism; islamism; military; obama; wot
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1 posted on 07/13/2010 12:27:51 PM PDT by honestabe010
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To: honestabe010

islam islam islam islam islam islam islam islam islam islam

FUBO


2 posted on 07/13/2010 12:29:17 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: honestabe010

“Is” is a bad word.....confusing too....Bill Clinton


3 posted on 07/13/2010 12:29:40 PM PDT by woofie
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To: honestabe010

That policy IS LAMe.

Opps!


4 posted on 07/13/2010 12:30:18 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: honestabe010

If you can’t muster the courage to name your enemy, you can hardly defeat him.


5 posted on 07/13/2010 12:30:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Always refer to the Libs' new group as"ONE NATION, UNDER G-D!" That'll drive 'em nuts!)
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To: honestabe010

This is like saying if the word ‘Nazi’ had been banned, WWII wouldn’t have happened. Obama’s unfitness for his job continues to shine through.


6 posted on 07/13/2010 12:30:47 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: honestabe010
and in other news, The White House bans the word fascist when describing The Obama Administration...
7 posted on 07/13/2010 12:31:08 PM PDT by ct_libertarian (Movie with a story or another Hollywood Marxist sermon? Find out at http://www.HollywoodSTFU.com)
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To: honestabe010

What else can we expect from the muslim extremist in the White House who is systematically engineering the destruction of our country.


8 posted on 07/13/2010 12:32:15 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: woofie

IzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaM,
BarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrY
.
Time for some derisive chanting.


9 posted on 07/13/2010 12:33:36 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (Robot machine guns and the Dirty Dozen)
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To: honestabe010

The Religion Of Pieces Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken


10 posted on 07/13/2010 12:33:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: honestabe010

So.....radical Islam no longer exists? I’m sure glad to hear we got rid of them. Guess we have nothing to worry about now. Bunch of fools in Washington.


11 posted on 07/13/2010 12:34:02 PM PDT by RC2
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Okay, we'll use the word "Muslim" instead. As in, "The fascist dictator in the White House is a Muslim Communist."

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

12 posted on 07/13/2010 12:34:29 PM PDT by wku man (Claire Wolfe's clock is winding down...tick......tick..........tick...............tick..............)
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To: honestabe010
Once again the Bam Bam administration is on the cutting edge </s>. Do they really think that closing our eyes to the actual problem will make it go away?


13 posted on 07/13/2010 12:34:45 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: RC2

And when it becomes obvious that this makes no difference to the terrorists, then what?


14 posted on 07/13/2010 12:35:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: honestabe010
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana

Pres_ _ent Obama’s John Brennan:"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"


15 posted on 07/13/2010 12:35:59 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: honestabe010

Well, even Bush said Islam is a religion of peace and steadfastly refused to identify Sunni Wahhabism and Pakistani Deobandism as the chief sources of Sunni Jihad.

And Jihadis have another chuckle at America.


16 posted on 07/13/2010 12:36:12 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

When you are one, mac daddy, you must protect their image.


17 posted on 07/13/2010 12:36:12 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: honestabe010

The story isn’t on the link you provided but it’s on the Washington Times site.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/11/obama-at-odds-with-petraeus-doctrine-on-islam/?page=1


18 posted on 07/13/2010 12:36:33 PM PDT by CajunConservative (0bama, your ass is the first one you need to kick.)
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To: honestabe010

“The administration’s recently released National Security Strategy ....”

It’s about time. This was LAWFULLY DUE almost two years ago.

Of course, silly of me to expect the present administration to follow the law.


19 posted on 07/13/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: honestabe010

The Religion that ‘MUST not be Named’


20 posted on 07/13/2010 12:37:01 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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