State Department Endorses Handbook Calling Jihad “Noble”

Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports that the U.S. State Department has endorsed a handbook titled United Against Terrorism, published by a Muslim group in Canada. As Kredo summarizes, the handbook recommends (among other things) that

“intelligence and law enforcement officials” should “avoid terms such as ‘Islamist terrorism’, ‘Islamicism’, and ‘Islamic extremism’ in favor of more accurate terms such as ‘al Qaeda inspired extremist’”. . . . The term “jihad” also is not appropriate to use . . . “Do not refer to terrorists as ‘jihadis.’” . . . Terrorism is not jihad. Jihad is a noble concept in Islam.” Other sections tell the Muslim community that they are under no obligation to speak to the police about individuals who may be suspected of having extremist ties.

Let that soak in.

What is there to say about this other than that, under the causes-of-war categories, it is a perfect example of evasion.

Will Americans continue to permit our government to call our Islamic enemy a non-Islamic enemy? God help us if they do.

Related:

• The Causes of War and Those of Peace
• The Jihad against America and How to End It

About Craig Biddle

Craig is cofounder and editor of The Objective Standard, cofounder and director of education at Objective Standard Institute, and executive director of Prometheus Foundation. He is the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It; Rational Egoism: The Morality for Human Flourishing; and the forthcoming Moral Truths Your Parents, Preachers, and Teachers Don’t Want You to Know. He is currently working on his fourth book, “Thinking in Principles.”

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