Islamic terrorism' phrase to be banned from EU lexicon
13.04.2006 - 09:47 CET | By Mark Beunderman
The EU is working on a public communication lexicon which blacklists the term "Islamic terrorism."
The "non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation" should be submitted to EU leaders who will meet in June, according to press reports.
EU officials drafting the guidelines hope that the European Commission and the European Parliament will also endorse the linguistic code of conduct, which will be non-binding.
"Certainly 'Islamic terrorism' is something we will not use ... we talk about 'terrorists who abusively invoke Islam'," an EU official told Reuters.
The aim of the guidelines is to avoid the use of words that could unnecessarily offend Muslims and spark radicalisation.
The EU official indicated "You don't want to use terminology which would aggravate the problem."
"This is an attempt ... to be aware of the sensitivities implied by the use of certain language."
"Jihad" is another term under review, with the EU contact telling Reuters "Jihad means something for you and me, it means something else for a Muslim. Jihad is a perfectly positive concept of trying to fight evil within yourself."
The lexicon initiative comes in the wake of a row over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohamed, which led to outbreaks of anger and violence throughout the Muslim world.
The European Commission currently employs 20 terminologists, one for each official language, to advise translators how to handle not only EU policy jargon such as "subsidiarity," but also sensitive words like "terrorism."
The EU’s interinstitutional termbank (IATE) defines a "terrorist" as "a person who commits a violent act for political reasons."
That'll solve the problem.
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Right, which of those useless Continental nations came up with this shit? It was France, wasn't it? Fuckers need to be invaded again. Through the Chunnel!
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SirNitram wrote:Right, which of those useless Continental nations came up with this shit? It was France, wasn't it? Fuckers need to be invaded again. Through the Chunnel!
Must the Anglophone nations save the continent from it's own stupidity every 50 years?
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SirNitram wrote:Right, which of those useless Continental nations came up with this shit? It was France, wasn't it? Fuckers need to be invaded again. Through the Chunnel!
Must the Anglophone nations save the continent from it's own stupidity every 50 years?
Well of course. We are the superior beings! Conquer the lesser races! Unlimited rice pudding!
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Wow, and the topic made me think that they were actually going to pass a law banning actual Islamic terrorism, not the terminology. Both would work equally well, I suppose.
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Well, clearly the term "Islamic terrorism" is American culture once again trying to take over Europe's beautiful, totally unique culture. Therefor, the only way to fight this is to remove the term. Duh.
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This reminds me of that time the European Commission wanted to rename chocolate bars to some weird ass name because chocolate didn't contain 100% cocoa, and was therefore false advertising.
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Cao Cao wrote:This reminds me of that time the European Commission wanted to rename chocolate bars to some weird ass name because chocolate didn't contain 100% cocoa, and was therefore false advertising.
All those bureaucrats need to do something with their time.
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Words, not beliefs, are the true culprit. Ignorance is knowledge. War is peace. Slavery is freedom.
A Government founded upon justice, and recognizing the equal rights of all men; claiming higher authority for existence, or sanction for its laws, that nature, reason, and the regularly ascertained will of the people; steadily refusing to put its sword and purse in the service of any religious creed or family is a standing offense to most of the Governments of the world, and to some narrow and bigoted people among ourselves.
The EU nations are deluding themselves if they think adopting politically correct terminology will allow them to avoid a major terror attack, e.g., a repeat of the 2004 Madrid train bombings. As I see it, they have only two practical options:
1) Totally submit to any and all terrorist demands and become Muslim nations with Sharia laws.
2) Become a police state where government security forces can use wiretaps and other invasive surveillance techniques to gather information WITHOUT WARRANTS, hold terrorism suspects in police custody for extended periods WITHOUT TRIALS, carries out assassinations against terrorist leaders, and censors any and all terrorist propaganda-- in other words, become a carbon copy of Israel or the US.
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Only a half-wit would think 'Islamic terrorism' and 'terrorists who abusively invoke Islam' don't mean exactly the same fucking thing. When you're talking about terrorists who are Muslims, it makes no difference what order the words are in.
I would rather see a recognition that Islamic terrorists =/= 'They hate our freedom!' than this kind of pathetic, useless semantic-whoring.
I dont suppose you could tell me this is from the Onion? No? Please, it's okay if you lie.
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Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
It means now the EU doesn't have Islamic terrorism to deal with, so we've actually succeeded where the rest of the world failed. Ah, semantics is a funny thing.
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