The Right to Say “Islamist” is a Religious Freedom Issue

A UK-based Muslim police organization proposes dropping the term “Islamist terrorism” and “jihadis.” The proposal offers alternative language including “faith-claimed terrorism,” “terrorists abusing religious motivations,” and “adherents of Osama bin Laden’s ideology,” when describing attacks by those who identify as Muslims.

Pushing aside the narrative that scrubbing the word Islamism would make it vastly more difficult to challenge lawful Islamism, there are three other significant detriments in softening the language to be more palatable to those for whom truth is uncomfortable.

Reason 1: Deleting “Islamist” is a Win for Cancel Culture and a Loss for Counter-Extremism Professionals

The civilizational war foretold by prophets of American political science includes a significant stepping stone that requires Western civilizational to become a self-destructive ouroboros that softens the landscape for cultural domination by foreign ideologies antithetical to American values. We are in an ideological war, which we’re…