Gordon Brown Bans Use of Word Muslim

--- [Hat Tip: C&F] The excerpt below is from the Daily Express in the U.K. Apparently Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked his ministers in Parliament to NOT use the word Muslim in conjunction with the bombings in Glasgow. Some PMs in his party may be longing for the days of Tony Blair!

Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis.

The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on terror” is to be dropped.

The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more "consensual" tone than existed under Tony Blair. ...

Mr Brown's spokesman acknowledged yesterday that ministers had been given specific guidelines to avoid inflammatory language. "There is clearly a need to strike a consensual tone in relation to all communities across the UK," the spokesman said. "It is important that the country remains united." -- Daily Express

I guess when it looks like a turd and smells like a turd, be very careful about calling it a turd lest the turd bites back. Is the deafening silence in the average Muslim community contributing to this foul odor besides the acts of the murdering islamo-fascists carried out in the name of their religion?

Prime Minister Gordon Brown keeps repeating that the attacks have nothing to do with Islam - but, at the same time, keeps inviting "Muslim community leaders" to Downing Street to discuss how to prevent attacks. If the attacks have nothing to do with Islam, why invite Muslim "leaders" rather than Buddhist monks?

Brown hasn't deemed fit to tell it like it is: that Muslims in Britain, indeed all over the world, must come out and condemn terrorism in unambiguous terms.

Instead, we are hearing that the attacks may have been prompted by "Muslim bitterness" about Salman Rushdie's knighting, the latest addition to the Islamist litany of woes. Some "moderate community leaders," like a certain Baroness Uddin, drop hints that Muslims have "foreign-policy issues" that might make them unhappy.

Translation: Unless Britain reshapes its foreign policy to please al Qaeda, it must expect to be attacked. Dhimmitude in all it's glory. Gordon Brown is falling right into the trap...

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