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exploited the event "to assail the United
States, Israel and the Zionist movement
and to represent them as responsible
for terrorism in India and the world in
general"
Al Jazeera's Web site overflowed with
comments such as "Allah, grant vic-
tory to Muslims. Allah, grant victory
to jihad" and "The killing of a Jewish
rabbi and his wife in the Jewish center
in Mumbai is heartwarming news."
Such supremacism and bigotry can
no longer surprise, given the well-
documented, worldwide acceptance
of terror among many Muslims. For
example, the Pew Research Center for
the People & the Press conducted an
attitudinal survey in spring 2006,"The
Great Divide: How Westerners and
Muslims View Each Other."
Its polls of about one thousand per-
sons in each of 10 Muslim populations
found a perilously high proportion of
Muslims who, on occasion, justify sui-
cide bombing: 13 percent in Germany,
22 percent in Pakistan, 26 percent in
Turkey and 69 percent in Nigeria.
A frightening portion also declared
some degree of confidence in Osama
bin Laden: 8 percent in Turkey, 48 per-
cent in Pakistan, 68 percent in Egypt
and 72 percent in Nigeria. As I conclud-
ed in a 2006 review of the Pew survey,
"These appalling numbers suggest that
terrorism by Muslims has deep roots
and will remain a danger for years to
come." Obvious conclusion, no?
Western denial: No. The fact that ter-
rorist fish are swimming in a hospitable
Muslim sea nearly disappears amidst
Western political, journalistic and aca-
demic bleatings. Call it political correct-
ness, multiculturalism or self-loathing;
whatever the name, this mentality pro-
duces delusion and dithering.
Nomenclature lays bare this denial.
When a sole jihadist strikes, politicians,
law enforcement and media join forces
to deny even the fact of terrorism; and
when all must concede the terrorist
nature of an attack, as in Mumbai, a
pedantic establishment twists itself
into knots to avoid blaming terrorists.
I documented this avoidance by list-
ing the 20(!) euphemisms the press
unearthed to describe Islamists who
attacked a school in Beslan in 2004:
activists, assailants, attackers, bomb-
ers, captors, commandos, criminals,
extremists, fighters, group, guerrillas,
gunmen, hostage-takers, insurgents,
kidnappers, militants, perpetrators,
radicals, rebels and separatists — any-
thing but terrorists.
And if terrorist is impolite, adjec-
tives such as Islamist, Islamic and
Muslim become unmentionable. My
blog titled "Not Calling Islamism the
Enemy" provides copious examples of
this avoidance, along with its motives.
In short, those who would replace War
on Terror with A Global Struggle for
Security and Progress imagine this
linguistic gambit will win over Muslim
hearts and minds.
Post-Mumbai, Steven Emerson, Don
Feder, Lela Gilbert, Caroline Glick,
Tom Gross, William Kristol, Dorothy
Rabinowitz and Mark Steyn again
noted various aspects of this futile lin-
guistic behavior, with Emerson bitterly
concluding that "After more than seven
years since 9-11, we can now issue a
verdict: Islamic terrorists have won our
hearts and minds."
What finally will rouse Westerners
from their stupor, to name the enemy
and fight the war to victory? Only one
thing seems likely: massive deaths,
say 100,000 casualties in a single
WMD attack. Short of that, it appears,
much of the West, contently deploying
defensive measures against fancifully
described "activists," will gently slum-
ber on. ❑
Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org ) is direc-
tor of the Middle East Forum and Taube
distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover
Institution of Stanford University, Palo Alto,
Calif.
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's
soon-to-be-released book on the
Middle East reportedly charges that
Israel's alleged persecution of the
Palestinians and the lack of active
American involvement in Middle
East peace-making are the main
sources of instability in the Muslim
world.
The Answer
Jimmy Carter blames Israel and
its U.S. ally for problems which are
internal and homegrown. Feudalism
and intolerance and the lack of
democracy and religious freedom
inhibit Muslim regimes from coming
to terms with Israel's existence in
their neighborhood.
— Allan Gale,
Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
® Jewish Renaissance Media, Dec. 18, 2008