It’s no surprise that people whose life work is to enforce the principles of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) would have only a glancing acquaintance with the truth. And so it has now come to pass in our green and pleasant land that DEI officials are warning the “intelligence community” that it must not speak accurately about the jihad threat, or even refer to “jihadists” at all. To do so would — you guessed it! — offend Muslims, and with Muslims in the U.S. already enraged at the Biden regime for its ostensible and vanishing support for Israel, we can’t have that.
The Daily Wire reported Thursday that “an internal newsletter sent by diversity, equity, and inclusion officials in the Biden administration’s top intelligence agency warns personnel not to use ‘problematic phrases’ when discussing Islamic terrorism.” In this Orwellian age, “problematic phrases” are those that are true and accurate, but are offensive to pressure groups that the regime wishes to court.
It seems that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence puts out an internal newsletter, appropriately entitled “The Dive,” and that a recent issue “argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on ‘changing terminology related to counterterrorism,’ because ‘words matter.’” Yeah, they do. That’s why so much of the Biden regime’s manual for governance, George Orwell’s 1984, is about the manipulation of the language so that the wretched inhabitants of the book’s totalitarian regime aren’t even capable of thinking thoughts that the regime doesn’t want them to think. Old Joe and his henchmen tried to establish an agency for this with their abortive Disinformation Governance Board, and they’re still at it.
The author of the article in The Dive says that “one of our goals” is “disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence.” Never mind that it is Islamic jihadis themselves who have explicitly and proudly entangled Islam with “terrorism and extremist violence.” We are forbidden to notice: the article explains that woke DEI operatives are trying to remove “certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim-Americans.”
Some of the allegedly hurtful phrases are “‘Salafi-Jihadist,’ ‘Jihadist,’ ‘Islamic-Extremist,’ ‘Sunni/Shia-Extremism,’ and ‘Radical Islamists.’” Islamic jihadis themselves frequently speak about Islam and jihad as the motivation and justification for their actions, but never mind. This newsletter was “created by ODNI’s Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent out to personnel throughout the Intelligence Community, which includes the country’s most powerful executive agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as intelligence components within each branch of the military.”
The strangest aspect of it, however, is that U.S. counterterror material was purged of all mention of Islam twelve years ago. I know this for a fact, as I was mixed up in the controversy.
