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April 25, 2008
State Department Fights Terrorism by Revising Newspeak Dictionary
Washington has adopted a cutting edge European tactic for fighting Islamic terrorism: banning words. The thousands of jihadists eager to die for the sake of killing as many of us as they can have all been eliminated in one fell swoop, now that the State Department has erased the word "jihadist" from the lexicon of approved words. Likewise, al Qaeda no longer exists as a movement, because Foggy Bottom bureauweenies aren't calling it one. The entire phenomenon of Islamofascism has been wished into the cornfield, because that word too has been struck from the dictionary.
Even if discouraging words that describe the enemy doesn't actually make the enemy go away, at least it will supposedly avoid "causing offense to moderates" — as if "moderate Muslim" weren't an oxymoron.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 25, 2008 7:17 AM
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Posted by: Anonymous at April 25, 2008 7:25 AM
"Islamic literalist" works for me.
Posted by: forest at April 25, 2008 8:41 AM
the life-cycle of a lie:
2002: Islamic extremists
2004: Islamic terrorists, a tiny minority in the Religion of Peace
2005: Islamofascists
2006: Persons who commit terror in the name of Islam
2007: Persons who are anti-Islamic
...
2015: Moslems
Posted by: mega at April 25, 2008 9:46 AM
Well, I could live with this, as long as the approved term is "dirty S.O.B.s". Damn it, how can we fight a war if we are not even alowed to call the ememy by his name?
Oh, right.
Posted by: KHarn at April 25, 2008 1:35 PM
mega, it's more like this year they will be defined as "Christians = Terrorists". That will be fine and dandy. This PC bullshit is getting on my last nerve!
Islamofacist,Islamofacist,Islamofacist,
Islamofacist
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at April 26, 2008 5:38 AM
Then I'll just say "Muslim" when I want to denote a fanatical Islamic killer. There is that better?
Posted by: Oftencold at April 26, 2008 3:53 PM
