One Step Forward, Several Back, in Efforts to Define the Enemy |
| Published: February 6, 2008, 2:11 pm |
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As my colleague Jeffrey Imm has recently noted, there has been a alarming few steps back in identifying the Salafist/jihadist threat we face in any way with a growing current of Islam. The new threat assessment, the State of the Union, (as noted by Andrew Cochran here) both fail to mention Islamism by name. Our government is not alone. The British government has has decided the Islamist radicals are now to be called criminals so Muslims won't be offended. But as George Weigel rightly noted, we are fighting "jihadism, the religiously inspired ideology which teaches that it is every Muslim's duty to use any means necessary to compel the world's submission to Islam. That most of the world's Muslims do not accept this definition of the demands of their faith is true—and beside the point. The jihadists believe this. That is why they are the enemy of their fellow Muslims and the rest of the world." Amidst this lack of fundamental understanding of what the war we are engaged in is [ Full article ] |
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