Diana West hammers away.
The AP 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."
Hallelujah. I long ago learned to loathe the mongrel term, which is not
to say it wasn't sometimes imposed on me by copy editors who didn't know better
until they received, gratis, a piece of my mind. At the same time, this is not
to say that the AP and I have to come to this aversion for the same reasons.
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