Friday, October 3, 2014

Call it what it is -- Islamic terrorism

BRIAN LILLEY

Call it what it is -- Islamic terrorism

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  • 7:31 am, October 3rd, 2014
 
BRIAN LILLEY - Call it what it is -- Islamic terrorism

ISIS FIGHTER IN BAIJI, IRAQ

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This week two Muslim groups launched a new booklet in conjunction with the RCMP. It's called "United Against Terrorism" and who could think that's a bad thing.

The subtitle of the booklet is "A Collaborative Effort Towards a Secure, Inclusive and Just Canada."
Again, sounds like a noble endeavour and there are parts of this booklet that deserve praise, including advice for parents on the warning signs of radicalization.

But with the good comes plenty of bad.

There is a push to say that terms like jihad and jihadi should not be used.

"By equating terrorism with jihad and by calling terrorist 'jihadis,' the media, law enforcement, intelligence agencies and politicians have confused the discourse, and this has been counterproductive in challenging the extremist narrative in the minds of the young and vulnerable."
This warning on language shows up on page 34 as well as in a section on recommendations for intelligence and law enforcement officials.

"Abandon public terminology that creates false linkages between Islam and terrorism in favour of consistent language that contextualizes threats and accurately identifies the perpetrators of violent extremism. Avoid terms such as 'Islamist terrorism,' 'Islamicism,' and 'Islamic extremism' in favour of more accurate terms such as 'al-Qaida inspired extremism.'"
There are a lot of problems with this part of the handbook including the positioning of the RCMP's name and logo on the front cover which gives these ideas the seeming approval of a major Canadian institution.

Since its release the Mounties, who contributed to one section of the handbook, have made statements distancing themselves from the publication. But they have refused to answer my questions on whether they will ask for their name and logo to be removed from the cover.

As long as it remains on the book, it will allow supporters of these ideas to say the Mounties oppose using terms like jihad. That will lead to pressure on other police forces and media outlets to stop using those terms.

That's already happened in the United States where links between Islam and terror have been removed from official law enforcement manuals and where President Obama says ISIS is not Islamic.
Here is the problem: Obama may not want to call ISIS Islamic, and the National Council of Canadian Muslims may not want to link Islam and terrorism, but the people carrying out the terror strikes do.
Listen to the comments of Canadians and other westerners joining ISIS and other jihadi groups.
We can point to Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who called himself a soldier of Allah and called out "Allah Akbar" as he shot 13 people dead in cold blood.

We can point to the Oklahoma beheading last week at a meat plant where Alton Nolen, aka Jah'Keem Yisrael, got into an argument over the proper Islamic way to punish women for crimes, was fired for his abusive behaviour and then returned to behead a woman.

From these people and groups, to the 9/11 hijackers, the Toronto 18, the 7/7 bombers in Britain and the countless plots and arrests in Canada of people saying they want to kill in the name of Islam, in the name of Allah.

You can claim all you want that they have nothing to do with Islam - but the people doing the shootings, the bombings, the beheadings say they are doing it for their religion.

They claim they are joining the jihad.

If you want to have a debate over what is the true interpretation of Islam, that's fine -- but don't try to say we cannot or should not make a connection that is clearly there.



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