Valin Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Legal Insurrection: William A. Jacobson 4/5/13 The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists. We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is Islamist. Hezbollah is Islamist. The Mullahs in Iran are Islamist. The King of Jordan is not. Not good enough for the thought and language police. Via Politico: On Thursday, after much prodding from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the AP moved to disassociate the term “Islamist” from its negative connotations with “Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals, who may or may not be Islamists.” (Snip) CAIR commended the AP’s decision in a statement released on Friday: ”We believe this revision is a step in the right direction and will result in fewer negative generalizations in coverage of issues related to Islam and Muslims,” Ibrahim Hooper, the National Communications Director for the civil liberties group said. “The key issue with the term ‘Islamist’ is not its continued use; the issue is its use almost exclusively as an ill-defined pejorative.” My Head Hurts....Bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 In that case, I am going to use $#@#$#@holes as "a pejorative shorthand for extremist Muslims or "Muslims we don't like."" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 There aren't really language police, are there? We can still say whatever we want, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 In that case, I am going to use $#@#$#@holes as "a pejorative shorthand for extremist Muslims or "Muslims we don't like."" Harold Hervey • 2 hours ago Since AP is dropping politically incorrect terms like "Illegal immigrant" & "Islamist" perhaps they should also drop the term "Journalist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
righteousmomma Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 The real tragedy here is the fact that our largest supplier by far of the news is AP. It has always had a liberal bent because so many journalists are liberal Democrats. This ban (along with the banning of "illegal immigrant") is just another sign of iberal Democrat control. Their view and their tweaking of views is the only view there is. We are on the losing side. .Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 In that case, I am going to use $#@#$#@holes as "a pejorative shorthand for extremist Muslims or "Muslims we don't like."" I think MoFo Head-Choppers has a nice ring to it......MFHC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 @SrWoodchuck Dat do have a nice ring! Do we need a syllable or two? MoFoHeadChops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 How Orwellian. Next thing you know, AP will start referring to themselves as a non-biased, non-partisan news service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 @Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Where have we seen this before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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