Australia's domestic spy agency will avoid referring to "Islamic extremism", instead changing its language to refer to "religiously" or "ideologically" motivated violent extremism.
"Understandably, some Muslim groups — and others — see this term as damaging and misrepresentative of Islam, and consider that it stigmatises them by encouraging stereotyping and stoking division.He said describing "left" or "right" extremism was also no longer relevant or applicable in many circumstances.
"Instead, they're motivated by a fear of societal collapse or a specific social or economic grievance or conspiracy.
Islamist: I shall cut off your head in the name of Islam! Apologist: What they mean is that they feel strongly ideologically motivated. Islamist: Death to the unbelievers! We shall seize yr women, &make them our slaves, as per the Koran! Apologist: He just really wants a hug.
we will always know its the islamist thus its never anyone else
Doing Dutton's bidding Lumping RW & LW terrorism together is an attempt to remove the (real) association between mainstream RW ideology and RW terrorism All current political terrorism in Australia is RW. LW terrorism hasn't been a thing since the 1970s (Baader-Meinfof etc)
And the ISIS terrorists will no longer refer to Westerners as Infidel Dogs...but are yet to work out a new PC name...
Why is asio going woke? I'd rather a non ideological agency watching Australia.
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If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck it is a duck
Hopefully the Australian media will do the same
Strewth give us a break! Don't tell me ASIO has gone woke now. Afraid to call a spade a spade.
Um, but these wackos are Islamic, far right & far left. Religion is not part of it.
you are doing a disservice by only mentioning Islam in the tweet, when the article is about how they won’t be designating several categories any more
So the right wing extremists are called terrorists?
Assistant Commissioner Hermans said they were inspired by Islamic 'ideology-based, religious extremism'. But he stressed it made 'no difference' which religion was involved, as police focused on the crime, not the religion.
ASIO are amateurs. Their policy of managing and trying to turn terrorists and security threats has failed. The leadership should be purged and the organisation forced to move into the 21st Century.
Comments here again. The ABC have a massive audience/culture problem... only radical doctrine would attract such a radical audience... ItaButtrose ScottMorrisonMP
Meanwhile, terrorist plot foiled in Melbourne today....arrests in Epping.
They’re not fooling anyone
This is how the government distracts from the voice of women. Terrorists. Every time they have something go on there is a terrorism announcement or a covid announcement. This government is a joke.
Wahhabis gave the world infamous groups like ISIS or AQ. You can blame the US government for enabling their main supporter the Saudi gov. which is also the biggest arms importer in the world. They're starving the poor Yemenis as we speak.
These false belief systems lead to bad outcomes for society and they should all be re-educated. We need to weed them out then call them out.
Doesn’t matter which religion it is. They cannot violate the constitution and law. Over
Arrest those who did this terrible thing! Law and order!
Makes sense... How else do we refer to the Australian born Catholic terrorist that ATTACKED NZ? Now there's a white Catholic as an example of Australian terrorists it's best we 'don't specify' things....
Why ? They are terrorists ! Simple
Literally every single terrorist attack in Australia in the last 20 years has been carried out by Islamic extremists. If they call it religious extremism, people are just going to assume it's Islamic extremism anyway. 🙄
The ASIO boss's name is Burgess? Any relation to Guy Burgess? 😆
After 1,400 years of terrorism, as taught by Mohammed, it is now air-brushed from sight, not occurrence. Oh, I feel safer already.
Ideological terrorists? So, Post Modernists and Romantic Idealists? Bastards.
What happens if you run out of Islamic targets , change targets name ..
So kind of like how African gangs are just generically referred to as 'youth' now. Nice of them to obfuscate.
There’s only one problem on this planet, RELIGION, how many people have died because of it, it’s insane!
A turd is still a turd even though you may choose to call it by another name.
The intent is but diluted intelligence? There’s Catholic, Christian, whoever and whatever terrorist groups and surely as much as possible detailed information is key to defeating terrorist? I’m of Irish Catholic decent, know nutbags are attached to my faith but what of it?
So when it’s not Islamic, everyone will just assume it is. Ok then.
What’s their new tag for “politically correct fuckwits”? Never mind, they’ll probably just leave it as ASIO.
Does this include local policing?
So clarification on the ideological bit .... required...
How about we just call them all “US sponsored freedom fighters gone wild”?
Like the religious terrorists that protest out the front of womens health clinics?
🤣🤣🤣This is because they have to pretend they now love Muslims especially the ones in China so they can run the warmongers racket and lead us to nuclear holocaust
Asio, really? 'religious' or 'ideological' violence. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Even though they are. Next, criminals will not be referred to as criminals because the term is upsetting to criminals and their associates.
That is an outrage given the statistics! Unbelievable.
Good, because the Christian Taliban is as dangerous but because they’re not brown they aren’t even suspected. The US experience should have taught us.
All religious belief theories and ideologies except my own holistic ideology implement terrorist actions.
This will fix everything 🤤
Good, because there are non-Islamic religious terrorism
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