This is seriously insane. And it's not just insane for them. They are definitely having impact on us as well.

I just despise this gutless BS.

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 30, 2007 7:58 PM

They should further ban the word "decapitation". It also gives Islam a bad image.

Posted by: Concerned Citizen at March 30, 2007 8:12 PM

Can this ban be extended to governments of Islamic countries as well? Not just Turkey, but if spread to the UN, it can then apply to KSA, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sudan, Bangladesh and a whole host of other countries.

Also, what happens to European governments who violate this ban? Their countries get expelled from the EU?

Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 30, 2007 8:39 PM

Makes me think of "1984" what ever happened to the freedom that the west has been advocating so readily. Yet here we are showing a very socialist/communist slant, Thou shall not say anything that would anger the PC gods, Here is a new dictionary for you to memorize, no need for all these words lest you become able to express your dissatisfaction.

Why they don't allow one to call a spade a spade and get on with it is just beyond me, has the Western World become so spineless?

Posted by: Spectacles at March 30, 2007 8:39 PM

Are they going to apply this to Muslim political incorrectness in their countries with such words as Dhimmi, infidels, kafir, the great Satan, apostate, man made laws, and don't chop their heads off?'

Guess we have to make international rules to our selves but they cannot apply it to the cultures that do even worse. No wonder Prophecy sees Europe as the new Roman empire of the last days, it will be an Islamic ruled anti-Christ power no doubt if not influenced by Islam politically and the delusion is exactly what is happening as predicted. How bad will it get? Who knows for now the unpredictable is becoming easy to see now.

Posted by: jesusisthelamb at March 30, 2007 8:55 PM

On the other hand we have a DT commentators page where the vast majority of the 300 odd comments list Islam or the EU as the greatest threats to freedom.

It is not "extreme Islam" or "Islamism", both cowardly usages to avoid the truth, that is lethal. It is the religion itself. This belief system has been on a "holy" mission of conquest in the name of their god since the Dark Ages. The entire point of islam is that it is the duty of every muslim to further the cause of converting the entire world to islam. There are a - very - few intellectual muslims who don't accept this, but 99.99% do.

or

Islam and "multi-culturalism" has already destroyed Europe. If we, in the USA, don't pay attention to what's happened in Europe, Islam and multi-culturalism will surely destroy us, too. Then, God help us all. A world without the United States, or Israel for that matter, is a world not worth living in. Posted by Barb on March 23, 2007 11:54 AM

or

ISLAM - read the web sites "dhimmi watch" and "jihad watch" to see proof Posted by Duncan on March 23, 2007 12:34 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=F11&blog=yourview&xml=/news/2007/03/22/ublview22.xml

There are a couple of further references to JW/DW.

Terrific.

Posted by: DP111 at March 30, 2007 9:03 PM

This is a totally totally crap idea of putting together this lexicon. It is political correctness gone mad. It is what I hate EU for.

Has any of the leaders really researched what the Quran, Hadith & Sira really contain?

And what happens in the years ahead when there are more and more street riots by Muslims in Europe? Are they going to maintain this polite street fiction that this is not mainstream islam but instead "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam"?

Posted by: UK Infidel Lover at March 30, 2007 9:06 PM

Watch this youtube video - it seems to apply in this case.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMB6pFy10u0

If you don't get it with this website - go to youtube and put in the keywords: 1/2 hour news hour jihad

Posted by: R_not at March 30, 2007 9:18 PM

While we are still "allowed" to..

Check out these two excellent videos:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2726758

The one below keeps getting deleted. MoFoes are actively tracking it so they can get it deleted. It's in German. so much bad news coming out of Germany right now so it may be fitting.

Udo Ulfkotte quoting the most satanic verses of the KKKoran directly to a German 'convert' imam by the name of Hübsch. Which means "cute" in English. I'd say he's anything but. Outside and in.

Here goes:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/529ca869-77a2-432c-972d-079b4698a4a4/ulfkotte_1/?widget=small

Pray for the 15 British sailors.

Posted by: Allahfanculo at March 30, 2007 9:27 PM

reminds me of when FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said he would never use Islam and terrorism in the same sentance.

Posted by: KAOSKTRL at March 30, 2007 10:21 PM

Nice to know that Lewis Carroll is alive and well and writing for the EU now.

Beware the jabberwocky...

(Or is that wacky jabbering?)

The word processing software to delete these offense words and phrases must be next.

(You type "jihad" and out comes "freedom fighter"; you key in "Islamic terrorist" and it gives you "benevolent imam"; you eneter "Constantinople" and you get "Istambul"....)

Courtesy of generous Saudi funding, no doubt.

Posted by: profitsbeard at March 30, 2007 10:36 PM

Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/5/

Posted by: pez at March 30, 2007 11:16 PM

"It is political correctness gone mad."

No, it's not gone mad. It's just in this instance flexing its normal muscles, for which it has had no need of Barry Bonds steroids, since most everyone, on both teams Left and Right, is still playing the same game.

Posted by: remote_control at March 30, 2007 11:29 PM

Re-reading the article, the book is classified.

A secret guidebook to prevent the distortion of the Muslim Faith.

A secret guidebook to prevent the distortion of the Muslim Faith?

We’re not that stupid you idiots. And unless you’re going to ban the Qu’ran, good luck. Here’s a great link to prevent the distortion of the Muslim Faith:

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm

Posted by: pez at March 30, 2007 11:48 PM

remote_control, is that really you?

Posted by: awake at March 30, 2007 11:51 PM

Well, geez... I'll just refrain from connecting "sticking my hand in fire" with being "burned." I am SURE, from now on (at least in the EU) that I will no longer be burned when I stick my hand in fire.

...Or so the EU Dhimmis would have you believe.

Posted by: Monkeywho at March 31, 2007 12:21 AM

Anti-dhimmi alert (the opposite of the original post)

Presidential candidate cites appostate!!!!!

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzdlMjdiNmNhM2FhNDZjMjAwN2MyNDQyNjFiNGY3MjA=

Posted by: JSobieski at March 31, 2007 12:42 AM

The "EU" no longer speaks for its "people".

Please do NOT confuse the "EU" with us Europeans!

Does Nancy Pelosi and Keith Hakim Ellison really speak for you?

You can have the French Riviera.
Long as you remove the mosks... their "signifiers of Supremacy" if I may go "post-modern" or "deconstructivist" for a moment.

But please do NOT make the mistake of thinking that the majority of us.. the *silent* majority.. are OK with it all.

Don't mock us - help us instead!

We're ready to help you too. Our leaders aren't leading us anywhere but our annihilation.

Do you really believe that most of us don't know?

I am pleading for UNITY!!!

Jesus Lord have Mercy on us all!

Posted by: Allahfanculo at March 31, 2007 12:43 AM

"Soon Eurabia will resemble the old Soviet Union, in which dissidents furtively distributed samizdat literature and faced stiff penalties if the authorities discovered what they were doing. Europeans who care about what is happening to them will have to travel West, buy books that tell the truth about Islamic jihad, and distribute them at home away from the watchful eye of EU bureaucrats."
-- from Robert's comments above

During the Cold War, no one in Washington ignored the matter of propaganda. There was propaganda aimed at the countries of Western Europe, by such measures as C.I.A. support for The Congress for Cultural Freedom, and in turn, its support for the best magazine in the Western world, "Encounter." There were subventions in the late 1940s and 1950s to the press in Italy, France, and Germany, such as the support given to Die Monat," or to the publications associated with the non-Communist left as well as to traditionally center and right parties, to combat the very large and very powerful Communist Parties in France (under Maurice Thorez) and in Italy (under Togliatti, with his wife Nilde Jotti).

There was propaganda beamed into the satellite nations of Eastern Europe, rightly called the Captive Nations: Radio Free Europe, right there in Munich, still today hard by the Englischer Garten, with its pagoda, and rapidly-runnig rivulets, and those shamelessly nudist sunworshippers sprawled on the acres of greensward, in the midst of the city.

And there was propaganda beamed into the Soviet Union itself, by Radio Liberty (housed with Radio Free Europe). For years it was headed by a well-informed American of the old school, married to a German lady-- I think his name was William Bailey, same as the painter, but I could have the name wrong. Later one of the Buckley boys took over. It was an important job, and recognized as such in Washington, and also outside the government.

And along with that broadcasting, there were publishing efforts, in Polish, in German, in Hungarian, in Czech, in Bulgarian and Rumanian. And of course in Russian. The C.I.A. had much cleverer people running its Cold War operations, including defectors from the K.G.B. and the Soviet Union, who understood homo sovieticus.

Does the C.I.A. have in its ranks clever "defectors from Islam" or those who grew up in Muslim countries but were not Muslims -- Maronites, Copts, Arabic-speaking Jews? Or does it, crazily, because the people who run it simply do not recognize the threat, do not comprehend Islam, prefer to listen to the apologists of the esposito school, the ones who are either totally ignorant and stupid (the armstrong level), or not quite so ignorant, but essentially obedient to those who give them money, or make their lives pleasant in other ways, including Muslim colleagues who have now infiltrated, and taken over, many academic departments of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, and intimidated, or pressured -- or in many cases not even had to intimidate, nor to pressure, to get what they wanted -- their non-Muslim colleagues.

One example of this clandestine publishing are the editions of emigre writers put out by dummy publishing houses in France, such as Editions de la Seine, that published "Zashchita Luzhina" ("The Defense") and "Priglashenie na kazn'" ("Invitation to a Beheading") both by Nabokov. These books would be distributed to visitors from the Soviet Union, in France or elsewhere in Europe to attend a conference or some other offical meeting. The recipient would ordinarily read the book in Europe, but some were brave enough to smuggle them back to the USSR, where they were then copied (by elderly ladies typing, typing, typing) and carbon copies passed around, and around, and around. Many were involved in such efforts. Indeed, even refugees leaving the Soviet Union could, on their way to America, pick up such books at a certain place near Ostia Antica, near Rome. In Paris a particularly effective effort went on under the intelligent leadership of Buffalo Bill's grandson. In Rome one agent was the brother of a celebrated archeologist, who worked at Sardis.

It had its effect.

Oh, there were giants, comparatively, in the earth in those days. Who from the C.I.A. has talked to Ali Sina or Ibn Warraq or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, about strategies for weakening the appeal of Islam -- within Muslim countries as well as in imperilled Western Europe?

What is the Pentagon, what is the State Department, doing to rescue Europe from islamization? What is the Pentagon, what is the State Department, doing to spread seeds of doubt among Muslims, possibly starting with non-Arab Muslims to whom the main appeal should be Islam as a vehicle of Arab supremacism? And who from the C.I.A. has yet talked to Ali Sina or Ibn Warraq or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, about strategies for weakening the appeal of Islam -- within Muslim countries as well as in imperilled Western Europe?

There are people in Washington who do know, or are close to knowing, what Islam is all about. They must be cultivated, allowed to be put in charge, and Yesterday's Men, the people who for decades thought of Islam as our friend in the Cold War because, they kept repeating, "Islam is a bulwark against Communism," the people who helped supply arms to Pakistan and to the mujahideen in Afghanistan without any qualms then, and not any qualms since, have to be pushed aside, to make room for those who are schooled in Islam, understand the problem of making what is called a "religion" understood as the menace it is to those who are immediately respectful of anything to which the word "religion" is attached, and know how to present the problem to others, and not least, are able to identify the main instruments of Jihad and the things that must be done to weaken each of them.

Such people exist. Find them. Hire them. Promote them. Put them in charge at the C.I.A. And at the secret services and other security services in every country in the Lands of the Infidels. The apologists and the terminally ignorant, and the simply not-clever-enough, simply cannot be tolerated any longer. They are a menace. They must be pushed out, and pushed out as well from any government-funded or government-supported broadcasting. That means the BBC has to be taken in charge by the government, and people such as John Simpson, and those in his galere, removed. It means all kinds of things.

Get cracking.

Posted by: Hugh at March 31, 2007 12:58 AM

Speaking of codes: if it becomes necessary, excellent code-words to elude the language monitors may be found in the works of 1. J K Rowlings; 2. J R R Tolkien (need I say more?); and 3. C S Lewis (yes, truly - see that innocent children's book "The Horse and His Boy" for a wonderful, hilarious demolition job on the 'Golden Al-Andaluz'/ Arabian Nights fantasyland of certain apologists and collaborators; also "The Last Battle", a book for our times in its sombre delineation of the process of deception, infiltration and invasion - and its ruthless 'take' on the efforts of those naive 'interfaith' enthusiasts who constantly tell us that 'Allah' and YHWH are 'the same god').

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at March 31, 2007 3:09 AM

'A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet'-A
Jihadi by any other euphemism reeks of Death and Taqiyya.

Posted by: Morgane at March 31, 2007 4:14 AM

If I could draw a cartoon, I would produce one with a smiling sharp suited estate agent shaking hands with an arab garbed man, pointing to a map of Europe with a banner across it: "SALE AGREED".

Indeed, we have been sold lock, stock and barrel to the islamist by the EU elite.

Posted by: pr126 at March 31, 2007 6:39 AM

Allahfanculo, the silent majority is the problem. It has for years voted for politicians that are okay with current developments, and it will continue to do so. Therefore it will get exactly what it deserves.

Posted by: otranto at March 31, 2007 7:13 AM

"They should further ban the word "decapitation". It also gives Islam a bad image."

The EU PC zealots probably favour "execution", an example of newspeak I have heard in the British media for murder by terrorist riff-raff.

Posted by: JFGR at March 31, 2007 7:32 AM

Where are the non-islamic terrorists when we need them to justify "Nu-Speak" for the masses?

Posted by: drk at March 31, 2007 7:47 AM

"the silent majority is the problem. It has for years voted for politicians that are okay with current developments, and it will continue to do so."

You may be right there, unless they wake up right speedily, but they have no non-racist/non-xenophobic patriotic party to vote for, have they? (Don't mention the BNP, please.) What is needed is a sea-change in the thinking of the mainstream parties, which will unfortunately probably require a massive atrocity to be perpetrated by our enemies (which itself is not unlikely).

Posted by: JFGR at March 31, 2007 7:50 AM

"You may be right there, unless they wake up right speedily, but they have no non-racist/non-xenophobic patriotic party to vote for, have they?"

In that case they should start up new parties or massively register for membership in the existing ones and see to that sound principles and programs are established and non-Quislings nominated for election. But neither happens, does it?

It shouldn't be too hard if there really were a silent majority out there who cares, which I seriously doubt. All it takes is a little determination and responsibility, qualities the continent outsourced to the not-too-qualified governments generations ago. Or perhaps an ounce of self-scrutiny, a word most continentals would have to look up in the dictionary.

A simple hypothesis that explains the situation is a cosmic-scale indifference to the continent's fate, and it is backed by observations.

How many Europeans ask themselves what they leave behind? whether their forefathers would have been proud of them? or whether their offspring, when present, will think well of them when they are gone? How many will stand up for their country, let alone make sacrifices or die for it? The mere mentioning of the latter would make any European laugh.

The fundamental problem is this the continent's spiritual health. A confident Europe would never feel threatened by a weak enemy like Islam. So I suggest that the silent majority stop being so silent, as a start.

Posted by: otranto at March 31, 2007 10:00 AM

I have, on occasion, entertained the idea of moving to Australia some day. Europe isn't going to get any better.

Posted by: Jesus Christ Supercop at March 31, 2007 12:30 PM

Hugh:

I don't know about the CIA, but at least one Presidential candidate has written and spoken about Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzdlMjdiNmNhM2FhNDZjMjAwN2MyNDQyNjFiNGY3MjA=

One way to wake people up would be to question politicians about apostates. Back door way to raise questions about Islam.

Not only should apostates be looked to for help in starting a propaganda front in the ME (Karen Hughes needs to be booted big time), but apostates are also the best way to get the message out domestically.

The more someone like Ayaan is given tv time, the better off we are. She is the SDI for the ICBM that is an accusation of "Islamophobia"

Posted by: JSobieski at March 31, 2007 12:35 PM

remote_control, is that really you?
Posted by: awake

I'm disappointed that you couldn't recognize me from my "hobbyhorse" -- namely, that PC is UNremarkable, not remarkable; ordinary, not extraordinary; mainstream, not against the grain; and, finally, systemic, and not merely a matter of "un-intelligence" or "sloppiness".

Posted by: remote_control at March 31, 2007 2:21 PM

"In that case they should start up new parties or massively register for membership in the existing ones and see to that sound principles and programs are established and non-Quislings nominated for election. But neither happens, does it?"

... "The fundamental problem is this the continent's spiritual health. A confident Europe would never feel threatened by a weak enemy like Islam. So I suggest that the silent majority stop being so silent, as a start."

No it doesn't happen [setting up new non-cranky political parties] because, as you well know, setting up a viable political party in a Western democracy is simple in theory but fiendishly difficult in practice. And how many viable new political parties have sprung up to challenge the hegemony of Republicans and Democrats in the USA? None, because what you need is loads and loads of money. So let's not jump from this to lofty and smug deductions about the "spiritual health" of other continents.

Posted by: JFGR at March 31, 2007 5:49 PM

remote control,

It was noticed. Welcome back.

Posted by: awake at March 31, 2007 8:33 PM

Allahfanculo:
The "EU" no longer speaks for its "people".
Please do NOT confuse the "EU" with us Europeans!

Allahfanculo is right.
I am seriously concerned at the deficit of democracy in Europe. Two points on that:

1) When The EU Constutition was rejected by France and Dutch voters, there were numerous attempts by the politicians to try and ignore the voters. Even calls to, "We will keep asking peopel to vote until we get the result we want. Then we will stop asking". This is all because there is a political elite governing Europe are are very disconnected from voters.

On a personal level, I would like the kick the head of Valery Giscard D'Estaing (former head of France in 1970 and architect of the Constutition) and Jean-Claude Juncker, a Luxembourg politician who gave the essence of that remark.

I would like to remind them

"You are our servants, nothing more. And if we vote 'No' to plans of yours, then you have to go back to the drawing board and come up with new plans. We, as voters, are not there to rubber-stamp your plans. Instead, you as politicians, are there to implement what we want".

That is what democracy is. I trust the voters, the ordinary people of Europe.
And currently in Europe there is deficit of democracy. There is too much arrogance among the political elite. If America wanted to do something for us, it should issue a warning to European leaders that current structures & plans dont have democratic accountability. I want more democracy in Europe, not less.

2) There has been a recent case where Blair instituted a e-democracy experiment.
People could "vote" approval or dissapproval about plans to have road tolling. (Americans: Imagine if every road in the USA was a Turnpike - would you want that?).

1.8 million UK people voted online their disapproval. And the Government indicated that it might not take note.

I find this disheartening.

Posted by: UK Infidel Lover at March 31, 2007 8:38 PM

Are they going to apply this to Moslem political incorrectness in their countries with such words as Dhimmi, infidels, kafir, the great Satan, apostate...

Well, as a matter of fact no. No they aren't.

The reason for this asymmetry is that they, like rap artists, enjoy the prerogate status accorded only to putative exploited victims, members of a protected class. This is what allows them to use words that we can't.

The "one-sided balance" is one of the basic fundamentals to creating the prejudicial atmospherics infusing any operable Fictive Reality.

6:70-8:12-10:4-14:16-22:19-37:67-40:72-44:46-47:15-55:44-56:42-56:93-78:25-88:5

I apologize for apparently implying that rappers are artists, I never meant to say that.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at March 31, 2007 10:11 PM

More words not to link with Islam besides decapitation (thanks to Concerned Citizen):

polygamy
pedophillia
dhimmitude
stoning

Please feel free to add to this list. Maybe we can then submit it to someone in authority in the EU as an addendum to an enhanced version of their classified handbook.

Posted by: vienna1683 at March 31, 2007 11:51 PM

What is the Pentagon, what is the State Department, doing to rescue Europe from islamization?

Having the mindset that islamization is a good thing, they see no threat in having more Moslems.

There are people in Washington who do know, or are close to knowing, what Islam is all about. They must be cultivated, allowed to be put in charge...

No, they must be entirely replaced, the whole lot of them.

It is hardly a recommendation that your fortysomethings at State, CIA, Justice, and other halls of power in DC are close to getting it. Such an obvious reality beating these well turned out elites on their forheads with a jackhammer for the last 60 years, and they're getting close?

In any business environment, an executive so far removed from market reality would be summarily fired with two weeks severance.

Bring in a whole new crew of bureaucrats. And let's smarten things up a bit this time around.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 1, 2007 11:44 AM

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Posted by: alexon at April 2, 2007 12:04 AM

No doubt this is one of the reasons why so many (supposedly former) communists from the Eastern European countries are getting on so swimmingly well in the EU, and are finding everything very much to their satisfaction indeed. If the unelected officials say that a problem doesn't exist, then it doesn't exist. Period. And God help anyone who says otherwise.

Posted by: enemyofislam at April 2, 2007 4:05 AM

Charter of rights just as the constitution needs to be rewritten.

Posted by: akak at April 4, 2007 5:09 PM