Don't call extremists 'extremists'

by Graeme Wilson
The Sun
December 5, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/2758/dont-call-extremists-extremists

Excerpt:

Ministers have been banned from using words like Islamist and fundamentalist - in case they offend Muslims.

An eight-page Whitehall guide lists words they should not use when talking about terrorism in public and gives politically correct alternatives.

They are told not to refer to Muslim extremism as it links Islam to violence. Instead, they are urged to talk about terrorism or violent extremism.

Fundamentalist and Jihadi are also banned because they make an "explicit link" between Muslims and terror.

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