Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, December 01, 2008 12:10:13 AM
"Knowing the enemy is prerequisite to defeating him. Islamists and the UN hope to muzzle the West into ignorance; we must not compound the problem by muzzling ourselves."
Euphemisms No Match for Radical Islam
by David J. Rusin
While Western governments scoff at the
anti-blasphemy measure that a UN General Assembly committee
passed on November 24, they actually have led the way in perfecting the art of self-censorship. Bureaucrats and elected officials, in de facto sympathy with the resolution's claim that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism," twist themselves into pretzels to cleanse references to the faith from relevant discussions.
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