AP and CAIR Agree: Installing Global Sharia Law Is Not Radical
This is disgusting. Twitchy is reporting that the AP (under pressure from radical Islamist front group CAIR) has redefined Islamist. It was too ugly a word before, and now, thanks to AP, Islamist is all warm and fuzzy!  (GWP)
CAIR is not a civil rights group. The council for Islamic relations in America, is a front for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Under pressure from Hamas-linked CAIR, AP revises meaning of term “Islamist”
From “man-made disaster” to “overseas contingency operations” and “kinetic action”, the Obumbler regime is always good enough for change, to turn reality on its head and put a spin on everything.  While there has already been some discussion of the change in reference to “illegal aliens” to “undocumented workers,” another change has thus far received less attention. This changed has been traced directly to campaigning by the Council on American-Islamic Relations against the use of a term it described as pejorative.
In a January CAIR press release, the organization which describes itself as a Muslim civil rights group, but which government officials have described as a front-group for Hamas, was unhappy with the way the AP Stylebook defined “Islamist.”
The AP added the term “Islamist” to its Stylebook in 2012. The term was defined:
Islamist—Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi.
CAIR found that definition objectionable, and urged the AP to drop the term from its Stylebook.
The AP went even further.
Can’t Say Terrorism, Can’t Say War on Terror, Islamist Now a No-No
First they came for terrorism, then it was the war on terror, and now it is Islamism.
Robert Spencer:
The irony is that, as I have explained many times (as in this National Review article), the term “Islamist” is often used by those who believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, to create a distance between Islam, which is supposedly entirely benign and peaceful, and Islamism, which teaches political authoritarianism, subjugation of non-Muslims, and everything else about Islam that is unpleasant and at variance with Western principles of human rights.
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