This is typical of the far-left political correct movement:
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.
Here is more on Chertoff’s political correctness:
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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