ADDING 1 link to post no. 32:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/04/jihadist_or_not.php
“The Continuing Debate Over ‘Jihadists’ As The Enemy”
By Jeffrey Imm
(April 30, 2008)
ADDING links to post no. 32:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009929/posts?page=32#32
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/127.pdf
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/126.pdf
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/659
“Investigative Project Releases Gov’t Memos Curtailing Speech in War on Terror”
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
May 2, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the “influential Muslim Americans” and “leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam” who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape a softer approach to government lexicon about terrorists and their ideological motivations.
“Our policy is we don’t comment on the Secretary’s private schedule,” spokeswoman Amy Kudwa told the IPT. Nor would she identify any of the participants’ organizational affiliation.
DHS and the State Department’s Counterterrorism Communications Center each issued reports urging government employees to avoid words like “jihad,” “mujahedeen” or any reference to Islam or Muslims, especially in relation to Al Qaeda. The Investigative Project on Terrorism is making the documents available for the first time here and here.
As we reported last week, the memos say a change in language from the U.S. government is needed to win the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims and avoid glamorizing terrorists motivated by religious ideology. “Moderate” is also frowned upon in the memos, though, with “mainstream” or “traditional” suggested as replacements.”