It seems to me this thread is veering off-topic.
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> Jon Roland
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> To: Joseph E. Olson
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> Subject: Re: Condi Rice
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> There are other ways U.S. officials and others are misusing
> terms. When they
> use words like "Islamic" or "Muslim" as adjectives, even when
> the noun
> modified is a word like "extremist", "militant", "fundamentalist", or
> whatever, it is taken by much of the world as an attack on
> Islam. They don't
> use language the way we do in the West. It is a similar
> misuse to use such
> terms as "jihadist", "wahabbist", or "madrassas", in a
> pejorative way, when
> what is meant are small groups without larger groups,
> institutions, or
> movements, that do not represent the group as a whole, which
> the smaller
> group is using as a cover. This plays into the hands of those
> dangerous
> groups, and magnifies their influence. We need to caution our
> officials and
> others to find terms that are not as inclusive, or have
> connotations that
> are likely to be misunderstood and make a bad situation worse.
>
> -- Jon
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