Chertoff undermines Federal officials by resorting to "Islam PC"
He's against the use of "Islamic extremists" in reports and training for dealing with terrorism. Federal officials are rightfully angry about this. From WorldNetDaily (via Dhimmi Watch):
Chertoff is going to have to leave office, as he is clearly not fit for the job, if he's going to just keel over to PC-dom as he is.
Citing recent internal memos, Department of Homeland Security employees complain their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror operations with pro-Islamic political correctness.The guy's got a very good point. How can we win the war in Iraq if we don't identify clearly what the motivating ideology is for any terrorists there, including the deposed and recently executed dictator Saddam himself? The same goes for when dealing with Iran, which we're going to have to go to war with sooner or later.
They say headquarters has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a "religion of peace."
"It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam," said one official who wished to go unnamed.
DHS Secretary Chertoff set the tone in a staffwide memo last year, when he described as "extremists" the two dozen Muslim terrorists who plotted to blow up 10 airliners over the Atlantic. Unlike British authorities, Chertoff did not mention the religious motivation of the terrorists. Nowhere in the one-page memo were the terms "Muslim" or "Islamic" used.
WND has obtained a copy of the internal alert from Chertoff, which was distributed to staff at 7:57 a.m. Aug. 10 – within hours, it says, of the arrests of "a significant number of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States."
"It's ridiculous. 'Extremists' could mean anyone. Who are we talking about here? Neo-Nazi extremists? Environmental extremists?" another DHS official said. "It's so politically correct. If the head of Homeland Security can't say it, who can?"
He noted that as a Jew, Chertoff is especially sensitive to charges of bigotry leveled by Muslim-rights groups.
In a press conference on the sky-terror plot, President Bush called the British terrorists and their ilk "Islamic fascists" but quickly backed off the remark after the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups complained.
Longtime Bush confidante Karen Hughes warned the blunt phrase was hurting her efforts at the State Department to improve the U.S. image in the Muslim world. The president has not used the term again, opting instead for the generic "extremists."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also has toned down her war rhetoric.
Last month she referred to the terrorist group Hamas as a "resistance movement," even though the group has been on her department's official terror blacklist for a dozen years.
A former senior CIA analyst says America is losing the war on Islamic terror because of such political correctness.
"We are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan because the political leaders in both parties – and their politically correct acolytes in the media, the academy and the general officer corps – refuse to square with the American people about the enemy's motivation," said Michael F. Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit.
He says the enemy is motivated by faith in Islam and is carrying out a jihad, or holy war, against the West.
Chertoff is going to have to leave office, as he is clearly not fit for the job, if he's going to just keel over to PC-dom as he is.
Labels: dhimmitude, islam, terrorism, United States, war on terror
