In the Middle East

Two captive Japanese men dressed in the now all too familiar orange prisoner’s garb, kneel in the desert sands with their black-clad executioner brandishing his knife.  Islamic State is demanding a $200 million ransom for their release, but everyone knows that even if their demands are met, they may decide to kill their hostages anyway.   Islamic State militants are not known for their scruples.

In Mosul, Iraq, last week, thirteen young teenagers were caught by Islamic State watching an Asian Cup soccer game between Iraq and Jordan.  They may have known that under Islamic State’s imposition of Sharia Law the penalty would be harsh if they were caught, but they were boys.  The charges against them were read out through a loudspeaker before all thirteen were mowed down under machine-gun fire.   Under ISIS this is the penalty for entertainment.  They were dragged out into the street and left to lie there.  Parents of these youths were too afraid to claim the bodies for fear they would meet the same fate.

A woman was stoned to death for adultery – no mention of her male partner, but I doubt she committed the sin alone. [Read more…]

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While doublespeak often refers to the use of euphemisms, it can also mean creating an ambiguity to deliberately  invert the meaning.  In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.  A good politically correct example of doublespeak today is the continual reference to Islam as a peaceful religion.

The French President took political correctness to a ludicrous extreme on Thursday last week when he declared in a completely masterful stroke of doublespeak that Muslims are the “first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism, intolerance,” without mentioning that fundamentalist, fanatical and intolerant Islam is at the forefront of almost every terror attack.

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls, however, takes a different stance.   Valls argues that the charge of ‘Islamophobia‘ is often used to silence critics of Islamism.

If we are left feeling a little confused by the rhetoric surrounding Islam, we are not alone.  Pat Condell has the final word on Islamic doublespeak – or does he?

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