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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I'm sure that the key people who matter know that the "war" is really on radical Islamism, not al Qaeda.
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On Wednesday night
The Daily Show mocked the semantic shift in the administration because they have stopped calling it "The Global War on Terror" and have started calling it "The Global Struggle against Violent Extremism".
One can suppose that they don't reference Islam directly because it focuses too many people at Islam in general, reinforcing racism and intolerance and pissing off moderate Muslims.