Diana West on 'Islamist'

Her article begins:

The AP [Associated Press] Stylebook has opened a new chapter on the non-"offensive"  Engllsh-language lexicon to parse the war on the world waged by Islam. The wire service bible (can I say that?) has decreed that "Islamist" is out as a "a synonym for  Islamic fighters, militants, extremists or radicals."

 

 

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