This all started twelve years ago.
On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates, who had complained for years about supposed Muslim profiling and entrapment, sent a letter to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Relief USA; and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” It criticized “the FBI’s use of biased experts and training materials.” Khera complained that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a powerpoint presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; and that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia,” and “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.” She demanded that I be fired as a trainer for the FBI and military groups.
These were supposed to be terrible things because I was bigoted and hateful. But many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were not actually bigoted and distorted at all, but simply accurate. What was distorted was Khera’s representation of them. For instance, Khera stated,
A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:
- “Wearing traditional Muslim attire”
- “Growing facial hair”
- “Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”
- “Travel to a Muslim country”
- “Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”
This was all presented as self-evidently inaccurate, but the inaccuracy was all on Khera’s part. The FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that converts to Islam were necessarily “on the path” to becoming “extremists” if they wore traditional Muslim attire, grew facial hair, and frequently attended a mosque; it simply included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators to “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Others included “travel without obvious source of funds’; “suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”; “large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”; and “formation of operational cells.” Khera selectively quoted and misrepresented the list to give the impression that the FBI was saying that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”
Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups signing the letter demanded that the task force “purge all federal government training materials of biased materials”; “implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training”; and more — to ensure that all that law enforcement officials would learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn.
Brennan immediately complied. In a November 3, 2011, letter to Khera, that — significantly — was written on White House stationery, Brennan promised that the government would “ensure that federal officials and state, local and tribal partners receive accurate, evidence-based information in these crucial areas.”
Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were purged. The situation has only worsened since then.
“Internal Docs Show Entire Intelligence Community Warned To Avoid ‘Problematic Phrases’ On Islamic Terrorism,” by Spencer Lindquist, Daily Wire, March 21, 2024:
An internal newsletter sent by diversity, equity, and inclusion officials in the Biden administration’s top intelligence agency warns personnel not to use “problematic phrases” when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversaries such as China, an internal document obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
The unclassified newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, called “The Dive” and exclusively obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Wire, argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on “changing terminology related to counterterrorism,” because “words matter.”
“This article is about one of our goals: disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence,” writes the author of the article, whose name was redacted from the document released to The Daily Wire. The article declares that it’s trying to remove “certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim-Americans.”
“Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to: ‘Salafi-Jihadist,’ ‘Jihadist,’ ‘Islamic-Extremist,’ ‘Sunni/Shia-Extremism,’ and ‘Radical Islamists.’”
The article is part of the newsletter created by ODNI’s Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent out to personnel throughout the Intelligence Community, which includes the country’s most powerful executive agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as intelligence components within each branch of the military….
From The Other Side of Town says
Please read The Brothers’ Grimm fairy tale “The 3 Sillies” to see a benign and polite summary of where we, as a people in general, have ended up.
Mike says
“If you know both the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the result of a thousand battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, then you will lose a battle for every battle you win.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, then you are likely to lose every battle.”
(Sun Tzu, from The Art of War)
JimJFox says
Question – what are the appropriate words and expressions to use in place of these terrible islamophobic ones?
somehistory says
I saw this. Wondered why they call their paper “the dive” and saw it as just another attempt to hide the Truth.
Isn’t brennan the creep who converted to islam some years previous while in the mozlum ruined country?
The mb said they would ‘destroy the miserable house from within.’ That’s what it is all about. “To steal, kill and destroy.”
Snakes are in control. The lives of all bunnies are in danger.
Wellington says
No greater snake than John Brennan, somehistory. He is a bad human being. I don’t know for certain that he converted to Islam but I do know for certain that in the 1976 Presidential election he voted for the Communist Party candidate for President, Gus Hall. Fitting, therefore, that he was CIA Director for that snake of snakes, one Barack Obama.
somehistory says
Thank you, Wellington, for your informed reply.
Wellington says
If one is going to defend Islam, then one either has to be ignorant of Islam or lying about it.
SC says
Endangering US Citizens en masse is called treason. The sooner these DEI people are hanged the better.
maria says
Agree, It is the best way to save real Americans
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One more reason to disband all these agencies, particularly the FBI
OLD GUY says
Way to much power in Washington D.C. While the idea of these Government agencies to serve and protect the American citizens is a good and noble plan, the out come has become corrupt and anti American protection and services. TIME to clean house of the filth in Washington D.C.
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GE says
JIHADIST
JIHADIST
JIHADIST
JIHADIST
There. I feel better now.
Siddi Nasrani says
And I think that being more tolerant would make me feel better like this idea
“Canadian Jiggs McDonald, NHL Hall of Fame broadcaster, speaking in Ontario, says: “I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in Toronto.”
“I think it should be the goal of every Canadian to be tolerant, regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus, the mosque should be allowed in an effort to promote tolerance.”
“That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque; thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, The Turban Cowboy, and the other, a topless bar, would be called You Mecca Me Hot.”
“Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called Iraq of Ribs.”
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret”, with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods, and on the other side, a liquor store called Morehammered.”
All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us.
Yes, we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on.
And if you are not laughing or at least smiling at this point, it is either past your bedtime, or it’s midnight at the oasis and time to put your camel to bed.
Derrick Bishop says
Excellent & you are promoting some good ideas. After all tolerance ought to work both ways. If these businesses were added next to a mosque we would soon see the intolerance of the islamist.
Constance says
Siddi , I’m laughing 😂… very witty & imaginative!!
Thank you, I need to lighten up a bit!
David M says
Just like the left refuses to call illegal immigrants that, & insists we call them “migrants.”
somehistory says
I call them criminal trespassers.
James Lincoln says
I use the term illegal alien, David.
David M says
Yes, that is a better description.
James Lincoln says
Thanks, David.
tom says
I’m waiting for Pedo Joe to declare that in the future the correct term will be “informal tourist”!
tgusa says
Your order of the day is to put an end to those guys doing stuff.
Who are those guys? What kind of stuff are those guys doing? Can you give us a hint on where those guys are located or is that a secret too?
James Lincoln says
Our “not so intelligent” agencies can “decouple” jihad from islam.
But…
Muslims will never, ever “decouple” jihad from islam.
abu taleb says
Ok, just Islam and/or muslims, because Islam promotes terrorism and other evil things, doesn’t matter Sunni or Shia etc, and there is only one Islam which is very evil.
PRCS says
Terms like radical Islamist/terrorism/terrorist/jihadist, etc., provide a false notion to the uninformed that moderate verssions exist.
James Lincoln says
PRCS,
Yes.
Obvious, but “not so obvious” to an awful lot of people.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
==QUOTE== Brennan promised that the government would “ensure that federal officials and state, local and tribal partners receive accurate, evidence-based information in these crucial areas.” ==UNQUOTE==
Who are these “tribal partners”? The Apaches? The Tuscaroras? The Senecas?
Rick Olsha says
PLEASE USE THESE WORDS : AM ISRAEL CHAI, V’KAYAM !!!!!!
jerry glenn says
USA surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
Derrick Bishop says
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It’s a duck.
T.jefferson says
Yep!! Keep kissing the ass of those who want to rob, rape and behead you.
We wouldn’t want to offend their sensitive little feelings now would we????
What a bunch of freaking demon possessed mentally ill lunatics!!!
This world is in very big trouble because of political correctness.
Yusef Smith says
Political Correctness preceded Wokeness by a couple of decades, with the “sanitization” of terms deemed “Islamophobic” like jihadi, Muslim extremist, or Salafi Wahabbist terrorism; all were banned during the Bush Administration. Oops, not necessarily banned, but “discouraged”. Intellectual dishonesty when correct terms and Objective Truth are disallowed when analyzing and fighting the enemy. The Sand pirate, jihadi orcs wishing to die for 72 virgins while diddling underage boys and screaming Allah Akbar are now inside government directing government policy on all levels from local school boards, DEI commissions, congressional reps, and Pentagon advisors using CAIR pamphlets about the religion of peace. John Brenan, aka, Ibn Camel was a product of sharia friendly insiders. Woken terminology of incorrect pronoun use and bathroom friendly shower with a friend onboard Navy ships regardless of incomplete gender mutilation/transitions are what such PC, Woke, and “tolerant” actions have encouraged. The banana republic can not muster any rigorous defense against either. Wallai Bisimillahi!
Davidka says
“He who controls the language controls thinking and the debate.” Orwell?
My local paper, the despicable Los Angeles Times, will go to any length to avoid identifying any evil-doer as Muslim. If its articles even admit that, you can find a buried mention or hint only deep in the paragraph, never, never in the headline or lead paragraphs. And I believe it has a formal policy of avoiding plain language such as Jihad or Jihadist, referring to “Islamist” to avoid the word “Muslim” in an unfavorable context, calling terrorists “Militants” or “fighters,” referring to organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood or other groups as “Muslim civil rights groups,” Never the accurate “Judea and Samaria,” but usually the “Israeli-occupied West Bank.” Never “patriotic organizations” or “patriotic movements” in Europe, but always “extremist,” “extreme right,” “nationalistic,” “anti-Muslim,” and the like. Never “Jewish residents of Judea,” but rather, “radical settlers.” And so on, ad nauseum.
Rick Gordon says
This entire philosophy of identity groups and separation rather than assimilation and the ‘melting pot’ that mase America great started in the 1960s at San Francisco State and has ‘blossomed’ to include any group deemed a ‘minority’ or ‘oppressed’ by ‘whites’.
The Palestinians who embrace jihad and hate for the ‘other’ is a natural expansion of this – clearly demonstrated by college groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine – who have no knowledge of history or current affairs.
R_not says
I will continue to use the words they use – jihad, jihadist, jihadis, and all that junk to use ‘islamism’, or ‘islamist’ is just that – junk to be tossed in the trash can. I am not a liar. Maybe those that tell us not to use those words need to take a look at their ‘prayers’, their koran and sunnah and see what they call us.
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
I never say Islam or Muslim. Muhammadanism and Muhammadan are more accurate.
Muhammadanism has a doctrine, dogma, policy, practice, and history of justifying and engaging in robbery, rape, torture, murder, and genocide of innocent men, women, and children who are Jewish, Christian, Pagan, and Atheist.
All Muhammadan activities are terrorist, genocidal, narcissistic, and antisocial crimes against humanity and war crimes in goals, if not psychopathic by degrees.
PROVE ME WRONG.