{"id":6204,"date":"2016-09-20T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/homegrown-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:32:53","slug":"homegrown-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/homegrown-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Homegrown Terrorist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider three types of case.  (a) A Muslim terrorist who was born in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith.  (b) A Muslim terrorist who was not born in the USA but is a citizen of the USA or legally resides in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith. (c) A terrorist such as Timothy McVeigh who was born in the USA but whose terrorism does not derive from Islamic doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a foe of obfuscatory<\/a> terminology, I object to booking the  (a) and (b) cases under the 'homegrown terrorist' rubric.  In the (a)-case, the terrorist doctrine, which inspires the terrorist deeds, is of foreign<\/em> origin.  There is nothing 'homegrown' about it.  Compare the foreign terrorist doctrine to a terrorist doctrine that takes its inspiration, rightly or wrongly, from American sources such as certain quotations<\/a> from Thomas Jefferson or from the life and views of the abolitionist John Brown<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same holds a fortiori<\/em> for the (b)-cases.  Here neither the doctrine nor the perpetrator are 'homegrown.'  <\/span><\/p>\n

There is no justification for referring to an act of Islamic terrorism that occurs in the homeland  as an act of 'homegrown' terrorism.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The (c)-type cases are the only ones that legitimately fall under the 'homegrown terrorist' rubric.<\/span><\/p>\n

So please don't refer to Ahmad Khan Rahami<\/a> as a 'homegrown terrorist.'  He is a (b)-type terrorist.  There is nothing 'homegrown' about the Islamic doctrine that drove his evil deeds, nor is there anything 'homegrown' about the 'gentleman'  himself. Call him what he is: a Muslim terrorist whose terrorism is fueled by Islamic doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The obfuscatory appellation is in use, of course, because it is politically correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

Language matters.  And political correctness be damned.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Consider three types of case.  (a) A Muslim terrorist who was born in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith.  (b) A Muslim terrorist who was not born in the USA but is a citizen of the USA or legally resides in the USA and whose terrorism derives from his Islamic faith. … Continue reading “‘Homegrown Terrorist’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,6,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-language-matters","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}