by editor | May 1, 2008 | Language, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Last week I noted that the U.S. had decided to stop calling the Bad Guys “jihadis.” Well as Jeffrey Imm over at CT Blog points out, there’s just one little problem:  Apparently the State Department and the President...
by editor | Apr 25, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Framing, Language
by Steven R. Corman After years of being told over and over again that they should stop calling the Bad Guys “jihadis” the U.S. Government has finally decided that this would be a good idea. I feel sure it was two posts on COMOPS Journal, here and here,...
by editor | Dec 24, 2007 | Framing, Language, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Back in September I did a post arguing that we should quit calling the Bad Guys jihadis because this helps construct them as religious actors, and start calling them something else, like islamists. Last week Menahem Milson did a post on MEMRI that...
