In "Good Jihadists and Bad Jihadists?," the always excellent Walid Phares brilliantly explains what's wrong with the new State Department gag rules on using the word "jihad" and other words. I tried to explain it here and here, but Walid does it better.
In his latest audio released by As-sahab (media arm of al Qaeda), the organization's Zaeem (supreme chief) elaborates on the difference between the pure Jihadists and those Islamists who lost their way and determination to continue the fight in the path of the founding fathers, which he calls the "Salaf of Islam." This complex speech (by Jihadist standards) can be only understood - and thus explained to decision-makers and the public - if the listener-analyst is able to grasp the multi-layered world of Jihadism.But this task has been made unnecessarily difficult for most citizens and certainly impossible to those who in the U.S. bureaucracy are supposed to do the job. By disseminating the so-called "Lexicon", the Bush administration, bureaucrats are prohibited from using the words Jihad, Jihadism, Caliphate, Salafism, Islamism and the like when writing about and analyzing matters related to terrorism. This ridiculous proposition is now put to test when al Qaeda leaders - and other Jihadist high profile figures - broadcast their statements.
Just imagine the poor analysts at the various counterterrorism centers who chose to apply the new directives to the bin Laden letter. How can these counterterrorism bureaucrats process bin Laden's words which they can't use or touch "when dealing with Terrorism"? One can imagine them staring at these "forbidden words" attempting to replace them with "Lexiconic" terms. So how will they handle such texts? Some are suggesting that the end product of these "Lexiconic" analysis will not only be absurd, but will further confuse the consumers of the intelligence assessment, from the defense and national security sectors up to the highest congressional leaders and of course, the President.
Read it all.
l think the only the State Dept and its gov't people can communicate with each other about islamic terrorists, is to use Maxwell Smart (GetSmart)domb when he spoke to his boss about KAOS. that way no one can overhear what they are saying. picture this giant bubble encassing the State Dept workers!
Sorry about that, State Department Dhimmis.
American citizens with greater intelligence than your boot-licking selves can use whatever words they please! It's the First Amendment, you know!
Jihad! Jihadists! Jihadism! Defeat Jihad!
Hi Dhimmi Dan Sutherland - you lurking?! Danny Boy - you crack me up, you're such a PC chucklehead!
These rules are not indicative of fighting against the enemy, they are indicative of becoming, or metastasizing into, the enemy. The Bush plan is de facto synonymous with the Saudi plan: Control the violent jihadists, while facilitating the onward march of Islamizing the planet. Look how the traitor Bush holds hand with these Saudi monsters, how we accept millions of Islamic immigrants, while being mum while they accept no non-Muslims. Our State Dept is riddled with not only apeasers and dhimmis, but Muslims. Our very rep to the UN is a Muslim. One day, China will be forced to crush them all, but unfortunately, us too.
www.faithfreedom.org/oped/Yongo60116.htm
http://www.bravenewsworld.blogspot.com
Zena, Control's Cone of Silence is clearly an improvement over the hari-kari experts and moles embedded in our Dept. of State.
Get ready for at least 4 more years of appeasement and termite-boring, because neither McLame nor Obama have the fire to clean it out. But maybe in 2012 there will be someone who can fumigate the place, with a lot of sulfur, acid, and indictments.
Zena, Control's Cone of Silence is clearly an improvement over the hari-kari experts and moles embedded in our Dept. of State.
Get ready for at least 4 more years of appeasement and termite-boring, because neither McLame nor Obama have the fire to clean it out. But maybe in 2012 there will be someone who can fumigate the place, with a lot of sulfur, acid, and indictments.
And it won't get any better under either an Obama or McCain Presidency.
By the way, I have to add that folks like Bush, Obama and McCain are not traitors. They're just wrong, as is much of the State Department, when assessing or dealing with Islamic extremists and the Islamic world in general. Over the top statements undermine the effectiveness of any message.
It's going to take the entire non-Muslim world a long time to conclude what so many who post here at JW already realize----that Islam is bad to the bone. People will have to be slowly talked into comprehending that the world eventually got a major religion which is not intrinsically good. In fact, it's quite the opposite. And it will take time for all this to sink in. In the meantime, though, I wish we could at least dispense with the feckless, Orwellian word games from the State Department et al.
If only you were running for president, I would feel good about my vote. As it stands, I will write in a vote which is going through the motions but not really voting at all; so why bother?
Then there is this; have you seen this? Is this true?
Now this news article with the "forbidden words" should be cause a patriot to tremble, or have we become so numb, so dumb-downed, that we are unable to react?
Do we fail to realize that the enemy is within the gate; usurping control of government and land; imposing shariah by sheer force of will?
Behold these things, all of them; seemingly unrelated; yet holistic forming a composite whole, complete, and marching forward to their victory at our complete destruction?
Perhaps, these things must be -- but I will not yield, nor submit because I prefer to die free than live under tyranny or submission regardless of what those fools in fine suits and ties in government would demand.
They are not real governors or stewards of public trust -- they are merely traitors of the most petty and vile ilk who wear the vestments and ornaments of office while pretending to be what they are clearly not -- honorable men and women.
They curry favors and foolish complements from those who seek their destructions; then so be it. But let us not also fall prey because of their foolishness!
From a letter in www.jpost.com commenting on Britain's program to promote moderate Islam:
Sir, - Your editorial praising Britain's attempt to promote moderate Islam was an exercise in illusion. For while there are moderate Muslims, there is no such thing as moderate Islam. All four schools of traditional Islamic jurisprudence define Islam as a supremacist ideology.
Acknowledging this is inconvenient. Instead, well-meaning fools expend all sorts of blood and treasure chasing the unicorn known as moderate Islam - the savior that is supposed to ultimately emerge triumphant in Iraq and Afghanistan but which never seems to arrive.
Instead of hallucinating, we should be doing everything possible to protect our civilization by taking practical, protective measures such as restricting Muslim immigration, shuttering radical mosques, denying Islamic countries access to weapons and developing alternative energy sources.
Let's stop kidding ourselves and start getting real.
I’ve got it now. We can come up with an entirely new vocabulary for any state department employees or government workers who are prohibited from using prohibited terms. This can be fun. Let’s see now:
The Mock Turtle: Secretary of State. “What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!”
Alice: A state department employee under the new regime. Most notable quote: “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
Eaglet: The President. “Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”
The Cat: President of Iran. “We're all mad here.”
The Dutchess: Hugh Fitzgerald. “Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
And finally, instructions from the doorknob to the great unwashed, the general public: “Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”
– With apologies to Lewis Carroll… and to Hugh!
Sorry about that, State Department Dhimmis.
American citizens with greater intelligence than your boot-licking selves can use whatever words they please! It's the First Amendment, you know!
Jihad! Jihadists! Jihadism! Defeat Jihad!
Hi Dhimmi Dan Sutherland - you lurking?! Danny Boy - you crack me up, you're such a PC chucklehead!
Posted by: darcy at June 4, 2008 6:17 PM
If only you were running for president, I would feel good about my vote. --witness
Wait, hold the phone, witness! Did you really just say that?! L O L ! Thanks, you just made the rest of my night, and into tomorrow morning, too!
How long before bush is out of office? My bad we now have a choice between mcsame and obama, looks like I take down the American flag in front of my house and run up a white one.
Any chance of drafting Hugh or Robert to run for president as an independent??
AUGH!
I hope someone thanks Walid Phares for doing what he does. This is an awesome article he's written because it's an unvarnished, faithfully translated/interpreted script of what Osama is telling his followers.
Looked at through that lens, it's something we should all read, and begin to absorb. Looked at through that lens, it's damn important to us all.
No media spin, no State Dept reconfiguring, just an Arab-speaking expert's English version, with annotation to make things clear.
Now how am I going to sleep tonight, after reading it?
This is the result of political correctness and multiculturalism: a world of make believe.
Make believe in the nursery is fine, in government where it affects everyones safety and security it is deadly!
Really, could there be better evidence for the importance of abolishing the State Department?
There's always been great tension between the State Department's nominal mission and the influences that act on it. It seems clear that that tension has been resolved in favor of America's enemies. It's time to kill the idea of a permanent diplomatic institution and try something less likely to succumb to protracted temptation.
Wait, hold the phone, witness! Did you really just say that?! L O L ! Thanks, you just made the rest of my night, and into tomorrow morning, too!
I never said anything of the kind -- I wrote it ;)
... and I meant every word of it too!
Have a happy day...
I never said anything of the kind -- I wrote it ;)
... and I meant every word of it too!
Have a happy day...
Posted by: witness at June 5, 2008 8:12 AM
I told my husband he has to call me "Pres" from now on! lol
But, while we're in Fantasy Land, here's the first thing I'd do: Define the nature of Islam through it's texts and tenets. All PC mumbo-jumbo lies and denials and falsehoods would be repudiated for the crock that they are. I would appoint Robert Spencer as National Security Adviser, and Hugh Fitzgerald would be Secretary of State! ('Bye Condi!) Vice-President? How 'bout you, witness?! Fantasy Land can be a lot of fun, can't it? I will indulge some more:
Next, all concessions to Mohammedans simply because they are Mohammedans would be revoked. I would tell Doug Hooper and Ahmed Bedier to STFU. Oh, Esposito, too. I would begin researching how Deportation works, and would outlaw any future Mohammedan immigration to the U.S., citing the current Stealth Jihad of Western Europe.
And then I guess the Saudis would cut off all of our oil.
witness - thanks again for the chuckle and have a great day, too!
Darcy gets my vote, too! What are you doing 4 years from now? Well, more like two years from now, because you would need time to plan your campaign. :-D
LOL, champ.
YOU get my vote!