Informational and psychological warfare against Islam is increasing as the global military offensive of international anti-Islamic alliance led by the US and "Israel" on Islam rises.
One of the obvious signs of increasing psychological attacks against Muslims are attempts of aggressors to undermine the ideological constituent of Islamic world outlook conception, to replace terms and concepts, to remove basic accents, and to propagate false stereotypes.
After careful examination American experts have concluded that Islamic terms carry enormous ideological and psychological capabilities that crystallize worldview assessment and mobilize minds of Muslims to battle with the aggressor.
In this connection the US public entities recommend to no longer use the terms "Mujahideen" and "Jihad".
"Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility", AP reports.
The study was conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security, which examined the way American Muslims reacted to different phrases used by U.S. officials to describe "terrorists".
It's entitled "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims."
Similar instructions were contained in a service note, prepared in March 2008 by the so-called "National Counter Terrorism Center" and endorsed by the US State Department. Diplomats are asked to pay attention to what they say.
As a substitute for the word "Mujahideen", terms such as "terrorist" or "violent extremist" are proposed to be used. Furthermore, it is also recommended to avoid ill-defined and offensive terminology: for example, the pejorative terms such as "Islamo-fascism", which are considered offensive by many Muslims."
This particular term was used for the first time by George W. Bush, who called Muslims who fighting against American aggression as "Islamio-fascists" and the ideological concept of Jihad as "Islamo-fascism" on the recommendation of Zionist experts and advisers
In this connection we would also like to mention that anti-Islamic forces in Russia and in the Caucasus, in particular Russian democrats and Chechen national democrats, are using different approach, taking into account the historical stamps and experience of people of the former USSR. They called Islam "green bolshevism/communism" and the Mujahideen "green commissars".
Russian and Chechen democrats, as well as the Kremlin regime and its puppet proteges in the occupied Caucasus, call Muslims, who adhere to classical, fundamental pillars of Islam in accordance with the Quran and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), as "Wahhabists".
Meanwhile, among other propagandistic methods against Islam, American experts suggest to minimize reaction to statements by Islamic leaders, because it only enhances their prestige in the Muslim world.
Similar measures have been taken in the EU and Russia earlier on. The need of regulation of using the media and using Islamic terminology by officials was for the first time announced in 2003 by the participants of a round-table talk in Moscow organized by Russian pro-Zionist organizations.
Musa Stone,
Kavkaz Center
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