Posted on 06/23/2016 10:20:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: DHS May Ban “Religiously-Charged” Terms Jihad, Sharia to Avert “Us versus Them” in Anti-Terror Programs
Four years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) purged anti-terrorism training material determined to be offensive to Muslims, its umbrella agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), may eliminate divisive Islamic terms like “jihad” and “sharia” in government programs targeting radicalization among youth.
It’s political correctness run amok and the Obama administration has played a central role in promoting it by caving in to the demands of various Muslim rights groups. In this latest case a Homeland Security Advisory Council is recommending that, to avoid “us versus them” when discussing extremism, certain “religiously-charged” terminology must be avoided. This includes using “American Muslim” rather than “Muslim American” and rejecting religious, legal and cultural terms like jihad, sharia, takfir and umma. Jihad is the holy war that propels Islamic terrorism. Sharia is the authoritarian doctrine that inspires Islamists—including the world’s most violent groups such as Al Qaeda—and their jihadism. Takfir and umma are Arabic terms that mean apostasy and Muslim community.
In a report released this month the DHS panel, known as Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Subcommittee, unanimously recommends that the agency dedicates $100 million to counter a new generation of threats involving “violent extremism.” The goal is to curb the spread of violent extremist ideology (read between the lines, Islamic terrorism) and the recruitment of American youth to extremist groups with DHS serving as a platform to leverage partnerships in technology, health, education, communications, cultural, philanthropic, financial and non-government sectors. To accomplish it the feds must “prioritize attention on efforts to counter the recruitment of youth to violent ideologies across race, religion, ethnicity, location, socioeconomic levels, and gender,” the report states. This clearly means to practice political correctness and not single out Muslims. “Often without knowing it, we have constructed language in daily use that promotes an “us and them” narrative of division,” the report says. DHS must ensure terminology is “properly calibrated to diminish the recruitment efforts of extremists who argue that the West is at war with Islam.”
This is part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to appease Muslim rights groups, especially the terrorist front organization Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the force behind the FBI purging of anti-terrorism material. Judicial Watch uncovered that scandal a few years ago and obtained hundreds of pages of FBI documents with details of the arrangement. The FBI memos and other documents reveal that the agency purged its anti-terrorism training curricula of material determined by an undisclosed group of “Subject Matter Experts” (SME) to be “offensive” to Muslims. The excised material included references linking the Muslim Brotherhood to terrorism, tying Al Qaeda to the 1993 World Trade Center and Khobar Towers bombings, and suggesting that “young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance … may fit the terrorist profile best.” Last fall Judicial Watch published a special in-depth report on the unprecedented broad purging of FBI training material.
Just a few months ago the FBI again caved into the demands of Islamic activists, suspending a new internet program aimed at preventing the radicalization of youth. Muslim and Arab rights groups determined that the interactive website, created as a tool for the nation’s schools to prevent susceptible youth from getting recruited online by terrorists, discriminated against Muslims and would lead to bullying, bias and religious profiling of students. One of the groups behind the program’s demise, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, claimed the website improperly characterized Muslims as a suspect community with targeted focus and stereotypical depictions.
CAIR and its allies also got several police departments in President Obama’s home state of Illinois to cancel essential counterterrorism courses over accusations that the instructor was anti-Muslim. The course was called “Islamic Awareness as a Counter-Terrorist Strategy” and departments in Lombard, Elmhurst and Highland Park caved into CAIR’s demands. The group responded with a statement commending officials for their “swift action in addressing the Muslim community’s concerns.” CAIR has flexed its muscle in a number of other cases during the Obama presidency, including blocking an FBI probe involving the radicalization of young Somali men in the U.S. and pressuring the government to file discrimination lawsuits against employers who don’t accommodate Muslims in the workplace.
The want to make themselves Gods and Prophets by sowing chaos among the hoi polloi.
Let’s see, is the word “Sharia” a pejorative or does it have meaningful content? Muslims don’t reject or take offense at the mention of sharia. There is a set of social mandates and a list of punishments for defying these mandates. So the word refers to meaningful information. The only reason to ban its mention is to avoid opposition from nan Muslims.
The same can be said for “Jihad”.
Just perhaps this is a stealth initiative for slipping a violen religion into our midst. Why would anyone want to do this unless they are adherents of and promoters of this religion?
Yep, and in my view the turkey in the WH has promoted this religion since taking office.
Homeland Security. In the beginning it was unemployed hair dressers working at the airport. Then it became black liberal union members.
George W. “Islam is a peaceful religion” Bush - the gift that keeps on giving.
DHS should have been abolished a long time ago. Better yet, it never should have existed in the first place. We have plenty of laws - too many, in fact. We have plenty of feds - too many, in fact.
Common sense is what’s lacking.
> the agency purged its anti-terrorism training curricula of material determined by an undisclosed group of “Subject Matter Experts” (SME) to be “offensive” to Muslims. The excised material included references linking the Muslim Brotherhood to terrorism
The “undisclosed group” is the Muslim Brotherhood
Is DHS going to join the list of enemy combatants?
Department of Hijra Security...
Yep...Isn’t it amazing how groups that support terrorism and the murder of Americans and Israelis are easily offended when they are the ones doing the killing?
Then 0bama’s criminal administration supports those killers to the max.
Sadly, yes it has...Most appropriate graphic!
polymuser: Need details about the OSS banning the use of certain words pertaining to the US Military’s activities with Germany.
A lot of government documents, both civilian and military, referred to WW2 as “during this emergency” instead of “this war”.
Now, I’d like to know if you have seen what the Communist Party USA/Soviet NKVD-infiltrated Office of War Information wrote about certain items, esp. the Serbian National movement the Chetniks who were anti-Nazi and anti-communist, and were attacked by both.
OSS reports from Indochina praised Ho Chi Minh and his forces for fighting the Japanese occupiers of Vietnam, but there is little military documentation of them doing anything of any significance.
The Communists in occupied countries such as France, Yugoslavia, Vietnam and Mainland China, often made secret deals with the Germans/Japanese to avoid any military confrontations. This let the Communists attack the non-communist and anti-communists instead, which is why Gen. Chiang Kai-shek’s forces had to fight a Two Front War against both the Reds and the Japanese.
The French Communist Party betrayed non-communist Resistance leader Moulon (sp) to the Gestapo. It has been reliably reported the FCP leader Marchais betrayed Moulon to the Gestapo for money, just as Ho Chi Minh betrayed Vietnamese national Phan Boi Chou to the French Serete in China for $25,000 in the 1920’s.
Isn’t history interesting?
That was written as an absurd analogy. Maybe it wasn’t so absurd? Yes, history’s truths are very interesting.
Thirty ought six has always been able to cancel sudden Jihad syndrome thankfully.
A Trillion dollars later and DHS comes up with a stick your head in the sand defense system?!
With the DHS, cowardice and stupidity are their normal Standard Operation Procedures. Expect the worst and you won’t be surprised or disappointed.
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