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Secret EU guidelines have been drawn up warning governments not to link Islam and terrorism.
The politically correct directives are believed to be behind ministers not using words such as “Muslim’’ about Britain’s terrorism crisis.
Yesterday the Daily Express reported how Gordon Brown’s ministers had been told to avoid inflammatory language when speaking about the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
Neither the Prime Minister in a major interview nor Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in the Commons referred to Muslims or Islam.
Last night critics pointed to a classified EU document sent out to all European governments offering “non-offensive’’ phrases to use when discussing terrorism.
Banned terms were said to include “jihad’’, “Islamic’’ or “fundamentalist”.
EU officials said the “common lexicon’’ aimed to stop the distortion of the Muslim faith and alienation of its followers in Europe. European governments had previously agreed on the need to develop a “non-emotive lexicon’’ for use in discussion to avoid “exacerbating division’’.
Gerard Batten, a UK Independence Party MEP, claimed Ms Smith’s statement was “evidence that the Government is now cutting its suit to suit the European Commission’s cloth’’. He is demanding that the full lexicon be published.
But the Home Office insisted: “The Home Secretary uses her own words. She did not draw on any other source.’’
Even Labour former Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane said yesterday that “Islamist’’ was an “accurate description’’ of the ideology behind the terror attacks.
And Conservative MP Philip Davies said: “Whatever your view on particular words, surely everyone should agree it is completely unacceptable for people in Brussels who have already interfered too much in our lives to start to tell us what words we can and can’t use.
“If we believe in anything in this country we should believe in free speech. If we are allowing the EU to dictate to us on this, most people would find that horrifying.’’
Hugo Robinson, of Open Europe thinktank, said: “Brussels has no place telling national governments how they should deal with the real and immediate threat of terrorism: The EU’s so-called non-emotive lexicon won’t do anything to stop dangerous extremists targeting Britain.’’
A Foreign Office source insisted the “common lexicon’’ was not an exercise in “political correctness’’ but an attempt to find a “common vocabulary and definitions’’ for statements about terrorism.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/12236
I am also trying my utmost best to avoid using some very rather unpleasant inflammatory adjectives to describe the present UK government and its members. However, we here at the National Methodist Extremist Political Wing of the Chapel Knights of Honour have also declare our Jihad on the establishment and call our members to unite against the real terrorists in the UK.........the New Labour Party.......it is this party and its leader who lied to go to war on Iraq; we are reliably told, ignored the United Nations Resolutions and with the US; licking its boots; invaded another state illegally; Iraq.
We are told that over 600,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the name of Freedom and of course fast food chains of the West and those responsible for this action are now retired comfortably with unbelievable wealth and are; yes you've guessed, not responsible at all for that mess and demise of so many innocent people.....instead they go on to receive national awards presented after five years delay; due to bad publicity; from pals and backslappers who themselves have a great deal to answer for; again, beyond the law; a law unto themselves and completely and totally unaccountable.
In the UK, you can't say golliwog, mentions the word black or even wipe your own arse with two; yes dare I say it....two sheet of bog roll......or the Politically Correct Police will be knocking on your doorstep.
I must, however, congratulate the New Labour Party; remember them..........Tough on Crime, Education, Education, Education. No more Boom and Bust........for completely wrecking the nation and imposing their university revolutionary dreams on the public; a public now that is; it seems; just one step away from ignition; sick and tired of being controlled by politicians; some of whom have never done a days real work in their lives; straignt into politics from school and the nation suffers.
Slowly and steadily dangerous people in high places with dangerous ideas and indoctrines are eroding what was once Britain and being British and creating a trouble state and.....frankly getting up the noses of the British.
The only trouble makers in Britain are the government and they have made one hell of cockup of running the business; UK Ltd.
An unelected PM with a team of previously failed ministers who are running around in ever decreasing circles who will eventually disappear up their own *****.