John McDowell wisely observes that belief in an Islamist and Salafist ideology that is at war with all non-believers must be defeated in his column “The roots of terrorism” in the June 21 edition of the Daily Journal. His clear-headed analysis is at odds with the current administration’s censorship of any attempts to identify those who have declare jihad against us. For example, when Francois Hollande, in D.C. for a nuclear summit, uttered the words “Islamic terror,” the words were scrubbed from video.
More recently, Loretta Lynch thought it would be a great idea to scrub the Orlando shooter’s references to Allah and ISIS. The current administration has allowed an enemy ideology to establish “language dominance” over us. The enemy which cannot be named controls our language, and it is vital that we are honest with ourselves about where this might lead us.
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