Friday, July 06, 2007

European Bureaucrats Telling Governments what to Say

Lots of banned words. Policy propagated in secret, of course. They cannot stand the light of day:

"Secret EU guidelines have been drawn up warning governments not to link Islam and terrorism.

The politically correct directives are believed to be behind ministers not using words such as "Muslim'' about Britain's terrorism crisis.

Yesterday the Daily Express reported how Gordon Brown's ministers had been told to avoid inflammatory language when speaking about the attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.

Neither the Prime Minister in a major interview nor Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in the Commons referred to Muslims or Islam.

Last night critics pointed to a classified EU document sent out to all European governments offering "non-offensive'' phrases to use when discussing terrorism.

Banned terms were said to include "jihad'', "Islamic'' or "fundamentalist".

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And I don't think any European government has the guts to tell them to take a hike. Poland is the only possibility.