{"id":8870,"date":"2013-04-08T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/08\/diana-west-on-islamist\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:09:08","slug":"diana-west-on-islamist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/08\/diana-west-on-islamist\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana West on ‘Islamist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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."     … Continue reading “Diana West on ‘Islamist’”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","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=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}