Thursday, 13 November 2008

Wednesday, 12th November 2008

Britain through the looking glass

6:24pm


A report for the Home Office and Department for Communities and Local Government has concluded that the government’s counter-terrorism communications strategy has not been communicating that well. As theTelegraph reminds us, the government’s brilliant idea is to refuse to call Islamic extremism Islamic extremism, or indeed to use the I or M words in association with ‘extremism’, ‘terrorism’ or any other word with a negative association, and instead to take their cue from the Home Secretary and, as she herself did, call I****** terrorism

‘anti-Islamic activity’

in order not to exacerbate ‘community tensions’.

Now it turns out that blaming I****** terrorism upon its victims and using language designed  to obfuscate and invert what is actually happening has merely caused confusion.

Fancy!

 

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