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We posted this past week a commentary by Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal on the new DHS lexicon authored by Daniel Sutherland of the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, who is the architect of the Muslim outreach initiative. Stephens correctly called it 'Orwellian Newspeak'. The DHS lexicon eschews words like 'Jihad', 'Islamist', 'Sharia' and with it the 800 pound gorilla in the room-the canon of Political Islam and the Islamic Law war doctrine that Steve Coughlin has been briefing the military on to great effect at the field level and below. The higher ups at the Pentagon are simply are blind to the doctrine because the White House is 'oh so' politically correct.

Now comes the venerable Charlie Allen, former national Intelligence officer at the CIA and now Undersecretary for Intelligence and analysis at the DHS. Allen is prattling the dhimmitude line offically laid down last year by President Bush and former press aide Karen Hughes, the undersecretary for public diplomacy at State on the occasion of a visit to the Washington Islamic Center and announcement of an Ambassador to the 56 nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, last June. I wrote about that occasion and its consequences in an article entitled : 'Bush and Islamofascist detente in DC?'.

Allen tells us that the War on [Islamic] Terrorism is a definite 'no, no'. Why? Listen to his comment in this 'Financial Times' article:

 


    Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates 'animus' in Islamic countries.

    '[It] has nothing to do with political correctness,' Mr Allen said in an interview. 'It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don't need this.'

Meanwhile the White House and the Pentagon have fallen for the official dhimmitude stance when it comes to Islamist terrorism:

 


    Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for Mr Hadley, said the White House recognizes that 'the use of the word 'Islamic' before the word terrorist can be heard by Muslims...as lacking nuance, which may incorrectly suggest that all Muslims are terrorists or that we are at war with Islam'.

    'While we want to be mindful to the way our messages are heard by Muslim audiences, we also think war on terror accurately describes the fight we are in,' he added.

Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs fallen into the dhimmitude lockstep with this comment:


    'The chairman is aware of the concerns voiced by many in the Muslim community about the phrase 'war on terror',' Captain Kirby said.

    'He is committed - when speaking of it - to focusing his language and efforts on the violent extremists we are fighting. This is not a war on Islam. It's a war against lethal enemies who are using a warped view of that faith to justify killing innocent civilians.'


Allen falls back on the Pew Trust Survey of American Muslims. You know the one where fully 26 percent of American Muslim youths below the age of 30 supported suicide killing. Well, Allen has this interpretation:

 


    While US officials have warned about an increasing potential for home-grown terrorism, Mr Allen welcomed the results of a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center, which found that the vast majority of US Muslims were concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism and had an unfavorable view of al-Qaeda.

    Mr Allen says any comprehensive communications strategy demands a comprehensive outreach program to Muslim communities both in the US and abroad, which he says is starting to happen.

    A recent memo from the homeland security department's office for civil rights and civil liberties echoed some of these concerns. The memo said terminology employed by the US government should 'avoid helping the terrorists by inflating the religious bases and glamorous appeal of their ideology' and 'must be properly calibrated to diminish the recruitment efforts of extremists who argue that the west is at war with Islam'.

Then you have academic 'experts' who bolster this nonsense. Witness these comments from Frank Cillufo of George Washington University and former Bush administration homeland security policy wonk:

    Frank Cilluffo, a terrorism expert at George Washington University and former special assistant to Mr Bush for homeland security, says the US government can take a series of steps to help counter al-Qaeda. He agrees that the US should abandon the concept of a 'war on terror' - which 'fuels the adversaries narrative' - and 'decouple religion from ideology'.

    In the long term, however, Mr Cilluffo says the solution will have to come from within the Muslim community, partly by imams and Islamic scholars stressing that al-Qaeda has deliberately misinterpreted the Koran to justify violence, which he adds will help 'take the jihadi cool out of the narrative'.


Next at bat is the indefatigable Marc Sagerman, former CIA psychologist and proponent of group dynamics and leaderless Jihad networks:

    Marc Sageman, a former CIA operative and author of Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century goes a step further, saying the US has helped glorify extremists by elevating 'the status of losers to Mujahedeen heroes'.

    While Mr Cilluffo argues that the US should be vigilant in countering al-Qaeda, particularly in Internet chat rooms, Mr Sageman sees the movement more as a fashion that will eventually die out, if left alone.

    Mr Sageman argues that the US government could even prolong the demise of the extremist movement by engaging in counter-propaganda fora. Asked, for example, whether US government employees could be effective in countering extremism in online salons, he responds that they would be 'thrown out of the chat rooms.'

Had enough of this dhimmi psychobabble. Here is a paraphrased comment about Allen and the intelligence crowd from a knowledgeable source:


    The government has decided on a full-court press against Al Qaeda tottering on the brink in Iraq. The counter terrorism chiefs of all the Cabinet Depts. (State , Homeland Security, Treasury) are promoting a message that Al Qaeda is 'an aimless death cult,' its own members are turning against it, and its ideology is corrupt anyway. It's so obviously choreographed....while happy to see any terror group taken down a notch, Al Qaeda does not equal terror. They won't acknowledge the basic linkage between terrorism and Islam. It is in the War of Ideas where we lose, no matter how our leadership spin their message.

It appears to me that Allen and many others are part of what author and friend Ken Timmerman calls in the title of his book by the same name: 'Shadow Warriors'. Useful idiots as Lenin would probably say.

 
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