A group of Muslim police officers is working to make it harder to speak publicly about how Muslim extremists in the UK use their faith as a justification for terror attacks. In mid-November, the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) asked the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) to stopping using terms as “Islamist,” “Islamism,” and “Jihadism” in their public utterances. In their place, NAMP recommends the use of phrases such as “ISIS-inspired terrorism” and “anti-Western extremism.”
FWI To justify the request, NAMP cited a survey of its members indicating that 85 percent of Muslim police officers and 92 percent of the Muslim community in general believed that the use such terms had a direct link to “Islamophobic” sentiments. (Well, as we all know, it isn’t Islamophobia when Muslims really are trying to kill you)
NAMP’s efforts to police the use of language dates back to 2019 when the organization submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry into “Islamophobia.” The NAMP claimed that the terms “Islamist” and “Islamism” were used to describe a “self-defined Muslim” when in fact, “the actions and ideologies taken by these so called ‘Islamists’ are far from ‘Islamic.’”
Oh, really? Explain this:
The organization’s attempt to portray Islamic terrorism and jihadist violence as having nothing to do with Islam was to no avail. Cressida Dick, then Metropolitan Police Commissioner said she would continue to use the words in an interview with LBC host Nick Ferrari.
Dame Cressida Dick has told LBC the Met Police won’t stop using the term “Islamist terrorism” after reports that police are considering stopping the use of the term. @NickFerrariLBC | #CallTheCommissioner pic.twitter.com/9TJ9JNShIB
— LBC (@LBC) July 22, 2020
NAMP’s second attempt to change counter terrorism terminology came in November, 2022, designated as “Islamophobia Awareness Month” promoted in part by the Islamic organization Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND). In 2018, MEND’s head of policy, Isobel Ingham Barrow, compared the status of Muslims in the UK to that of Jews in Germany prior to the Holocaust in a 2018 speech. (Disgraceful! How dare this dumb bitch compare Muslims in the UK, most of whom live far better lives than they would in any Muslim country, with the slaughter of 6 million Jews?)
In its second run at the issue, NAMP, which has around 2000 members, again asserted that using words such as “Islamist” and “Islamism” conflates Islam with extremism. With this argument NAMP was hoping get politicians to engage what Harrison Swinhoe, a researcher at the University of Leeds, calls “accidental takfirism” by convincing them to declare that Islamists and jihadists are not “real Muslims.” (Takfir is an Arabic term used describe the excommunication of someone from Islam by declaring them a “Kafir‘ or “disbeliever.”)
Swinhoe warns that when non-Muslim politicians engage in “accidental takfirism, they actually legitimize intra-Muslim violence. More to the point, prohibiting the use of the word “Islamism” makes it impossible to confront the movement as intent on injecting Islamic norms into public life.
Ironically enough, NAMP’s demand that non-Muslim politicians refrain from using the word Islamism flies in the face of its regular use by Muslims themselves. A 2018 report by the Policy Exchange revealed that while Muslims sometimes “claim that using the word Islamist is an Islamophobic act … many of those same groups and individuals seem to acknowledge that the term has validity and meaning” by using the word themselves in their writings. For example, the Muslim Brotherhood acknowledged its Islamist roots on its English language website, in a 2011 declaration that it wanted to “dialogue” with the West.
The Policy Exchange concluded that “We cannot counter Islamism, if we cannot identify it; and we cannot identify it if we lack the terms by which to understand it. Ideas matter – and so do words.”
Policing language in reference to Muslim violence can have deadly consequences by making law enforcement officials reluctant to confront suspicious behavior by Muslims for fear of being labelled a bigot. Something like this happened at the Manchester Arena in 2017 when a security guard at the Ariana Grande concert was reluctant to confront the bomber, Salman Abedi, for fear of being labelled racist.
Similar fears contributed to the failure of officials to confront grooming gangs in numerous cities throughout the UK for decades.
underzog says
I agree with the U.K. Muslims. We should not be using the word “islamist.” We should instead describe the acts of Islamic terror as activist Muslims or the heroes of the Islamic world when they commit their acts of murder and mayhem. To paraphrase Pamela Geller, does anyone refer to Christians as “Christianists”? Islamist is a made up word by Danny Pipes who claims there is some sort of good Islam.
Aaaa says
They can call them Saracens
Jerven says
There shouldn’t be a single muslim police officer in Britain! Not. One!
Why? Because their first, overriding and only loyalty is, not to the country or the law of the land but, always to islam and sharia. Any, and all situations, where there may be a conflict between the two and … they always side with islam. Always.
(The unsaid truth of Rotherham et al, is that the police involved were either muslim or bought and paid for wokesters, not a single normal remains in such places ,,, intentionally driven out, to allow exactly the behaviour we now know occurred.
Remember, not even the most extreme wokester would have returned victims to their muslim abusers, but muslims returning them to friends and family …).
The reason the wokesters side with muslims is that, by allowing their patently perverted political ideology masquerading as a religion to pervert the police force they … undermine faith in it and the rule of law (exactly as marx and alinsky demand).
Ditto the judiciary, political office and the bureaucracy where ‘preference’ is always given to their fellow tribalists (What, you thought the immigration travesty was due to incompetence? corruption? laziness? Nope, it’s intentional enemy action by a bureaucracy infested with …. muslims. Seriously, look to the staffing of The Home Office, Immigration and Customs, they are now almost all … foreigners and muslims).
The ‘amusing’ thing, in seeking to control the language they, as always, actually both increase the ‘verboten’ words use, and self-identify every single one of their fellow travellers for future … ‘consideration’. (Just like with the chinkypox, I was ‘glad’ because it allowed the identification of every single totalitarian, this does the same).
BareNakedIslam says
I bet there’s no National Association of Christian or Jewish Police in the UK, is there?
Jerven says
The real question is whether there are any Christian or Jewish police ‘officers’ left, let alone an association. The answer I suspect will be … no.
Incidentally, I suspect, as well as to comply with the wokisms, the ever increasing numbers of women in, and feminisation of, the police force is because [insert Orwell quote regarding how young women were the most compliant and rabid followers of ‘the party’. You know the one I mean].
Christians, Jewish or even your average ‘normal’ (plenty of gays, and yes, they have and association /facepalm) man might balk at following the diktats, so as such they must be ‘removed’.
Truthfully, I suspect it is now beyond repair. Better to raise it, salt the earth and … nuke it from orbit, just to be certain.
BareNakedIslam says
Good points all. 2000+ Muslim cops sounds very high based on their total population numbers.
underzog says
The real reason the woke Left sides with the activist/terroristic Islamic movement is because they are psychologically similar to these Muslims. The Leftists also are a bunch of whiny, violent spoiled brats who fight dirty — including hiding behind children; e.g., Greta Thunberg, to push their nauseating agenda. The two evil groups, the Left and Islam, are romantic movements based on violent emotion; e.g., the N.S.D.A.P. movement.
VMS says
Islamic extremist is not the right characterization. Instead, they are run of the mill islamists who happen to engage in behavior sanctioned by their religion and/or approve of others engaged in that behavior.
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ME Infidel says
According to Bill Warner, there have been 270 million victims of Islamic Jihad since the ProMo allegedly burst on the scene in 570-632 AD. In addition, the “Religion of Peace” website tracks current Islamic Jihad activity and answers anyone’s questions on Sharia law.
https://thereligionofpeace.com/
The Islamists are trying to follow the lead of Leftists, “Control the language; control the narrative.” Unfortunately for them, frequent visitors to this site are not lemmings and will continue to point out that Islamic doctrine is, in fact, the motivation for Islamic Jihad (both violent and stealth).