Islam, Jihad Banned from National Security Strategy Document
Seeing as how the “Global War on Terror” last year became the “Overseas Contingency Operation”, it should come as no surprise that the Obama administration is removing terms such as “Islamic radicalism” from the national security strategy document:
The Obama administration is busily revising the document that outlines the national security strategy of the United States and is expunging terms like “Islamic” to describe radicalism, extremism, and terrorism, as well as the word “jihad.”
The stated purpose appears to be to reassure peaceful Islamic countries that in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban and in confronting Iran, the United States is not, ipso facto, at war with Islam. Some analysts consider the effort an exercise in political correctness.“The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: ‘The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.’”
The author points out the ridiculous irony in the selective use of nomenclature:
The expunging of references to Islam in national security documents seem also to coddle Muslims who, while peaceful enough, are rather passive when their coreligionist use Islam as an excuse to commit murder and mayhem. Al Qaeda and the Taliban call themselves Muslim and wage jihad in the name of Islam. It seems incongruous that the United States will not acknowledge the same thing.
It should also be noted that the Obama administration and its supporters are not so finicky as they are with Islamic terrorists when referring to Tea Party protesters, calling them “racists,” “homophobes,” and worse. And yet the Tea Partiers have killed no one, harmed no one, threaten no one, except at the ballot box. The dichotomy could not be more apparent.
And so I ask, “Who are we fighting then?” Are they merely disgruntled “religious” folk who are really products of a sexually repressed, economically stagnant, and intellectually barren society? Some random group of generic, unidentifiable miscreants who all just happen to shout the same exclamation “Allahu Akbar” when they pull the trigger or detonate the suicide vest? Why are we fooling ourselves into believing that by eliminating the terms the terrorists use to describe themselves that we are somehow “superior” or that we will in some way more effectively wage the war against these religious extremists? Equally important, why are we also undermining the efforts of peaceful Muslim believers who wish to single out and eradicate these extremists from their religion but who now have their allies in the U.S. refusing to acknowledge these sectarian maniacs and identify them for who and what they truly are?
