How Many Politically Correct European Idiots Does It Take To Piss Off An Academic?

The Telegraph reports that the European Union “has drawn up guidelines advising government spokesmen to refrain from linking Islam and terrorism in their statements.” The EU suggests that in place of “Islamic terrorism” one should say “terrorists who abusively invoke Islam”. You probably thought that this was an April Fool’s post, but it isn’t. This is a real story. The EU really thinks that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism. This is, of course, a completely untenable position. Dozens of terrorists have explicitly said that they are Muslims and that their motivation was Islam. Moreover, there is clearly widespread support among Muslims for terrorism.

To take but one example, here are the results of a 2006 poll of Muslims as to whether they agreed that suicide bombings against civilians are sometimes or often justified… A poll of Palestinian Arabs found that 73% supported suicide attacks against American interests, a finding confirmed by the widely televised celebration of 9/11 in the West Bank and Lebanon.