Here's a good entry that I came across at the SWJ Blog.
Read the rest at Words Have Meaning (SWJ Blog)
I’ve been on Jim Guirard’s (TrueSpeak.org) e-mail list for years and have found his discussion of ‘the power of words’ quite fascinating, to say the least. Jim is an ‘out of the box’ thinker in regards to information operations and has taken on the West’s choice of Arabic terms and the message they convey as a life-mission.
For those interested in Jim’s work I recommend beginning with the following as an introduction and reference point for further research.
For those interested in Jim’s work I recommend beginning with the following as an introduction and reference point for further research.
Mini Glossary For Fellow Word Warriors
At the request of several "word warriors" on my lists, here is an update of a late-2006 memo which lists quite a number of the Arabic and Islamic words we will need to break out of the habit-of-language box which today makes makes us the "bad guys" and the "infidels" and so falsely anoints the al Qaeda-style suicide mass murderers as the so-called jihadi "holy guys" and shahidi "martyrs."
Importantly, the ubiquitous (it’s everywhere! it's everywhere!!) word Jihad is entered four times in order to more clearly define its several meanings and to deprive al Qaeda killers of its halo.
At the request of several "word warriors" on my lists, here is an update of a late-2006 memo which lists quite a number of the Arabic and Islamic words we will need to break out of the habit-of-language box which today makes makes us the "bad guys" and the "infidels" and so falsely anoints the al Qaeda-style suicide mass murderers as the so-called jihadi "holy guys" and shahidi "martyrs."
Importantly, the ubiquitous (it’s everywhere! it's everywhere!!) word Jihad is entered four times in order to more clearly define its several meanings and to deprive al Qaeda killers of its halo.
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