The Times newspaper said that the British police are considering preventing the use of the terms "Islamic terrorism" and "jihad" when talking about terrorist attacks by people who say their motive for doing so is the Islamic religion.

The British journalist added that the alternative terms for the term "Islamic terrorism" are "ideological terrorism", "terrorists offend the aims of their religion" and "followers of Osama bin Laden's ideology."

These proposals came at the request of the National Association of Muslim Police Personnel in Britain, which criticized the country's authorities for using the term “Islamic” and “jihadist” when talking about terrorist attacks, and the association said that this use contributes to creating negative negative stereotypes and concepts that call for discrimination Against Muslims and Islamophobia.

Erdogan: Some disrespectful leaders use the term Islamic terrorism .. We cannot accept this phrase at all pic.twitter.com/YxsSz5YrEw

- Al-Jazeera (@AJArabic) December 5, 2019

Example of comparison

To drum up support for its call, the National Association of Muslim Police Members said - in a statement - that "extremist right-wing terrorists, including Anders Prievik who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, were not classified as Christian or Crusader."

The Times newspaper reported that the head of the Counter-Terrorism Unit, Neil Basso, discussed this trend to abandon the phrase "Islamic terrorism" in an online event last month, attended by more than 70 survivors of multiple terrorist attacks, relatives of victims and other experts and academics.

The British security authorities have described many terrorist attacks in recent years as "Islamic terrorism", including the 2005 London bombings, the Westminster, London Bridge, and Manchester attacks, all in 2017.

At the event organized last month, Representative of the National Muslim Police Association Alexander Ghent said he was proposing "a change in culture by refraining from using phrases related to Islam and jihad, because that does not help the Muslim community, and it harms the public's trust."

Not inevitable

However, Chief British Police Inspector Nick Adams told The Times that it is not certain to go ahead with this approach to dispense with the aforementioned phrase, explaining that "the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Network held a meeting because Muslim officers are concerned that the terminology may contribute to the stigmatization of innocent Muslims in the United Kingdom ".

"We have no plans to change the terminology we use at present, but we welcome discussions and contributions on this," Adams added.

The former British police officer, Radwan Mustafa, stated in a research paper by virtue of his teaching at the University of Huddersfield, that "Muslims working in the field of combating terrorism are not comfortable with the use of descriptive: Islamic and jihadist, because they link their religious belief with violence."

US President Donald # Trump is now in a memorial speech for the victims of the 9/11 attacks, using the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" ... and then silence to applaud the audience. https://t.co/rncLCTz4Y6

- Reem Al-Harmi Reem Al-Harmi chez moi 🏠 (@Reem_AlHarmi) September 11, 2018

Western leaders

It is noteworthy that a number of leaders of Western countries use the phrase "Islamic terrorism" when talking about terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims, including US Presidents Donald Trump and French Emmanuel Macron as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a meeting with Chancellor Merkel last year that he was very hurt by the chancellor's use of the term "Islamic terrorism", and that "this phrase cannot be used because it is not fair, given that it links the Islamic religion and terrorism."

Erdogan added that the word Islam means peace, and therefore it is not possible to link terrorism and Islam, asking with censure, "Have you heard terms such as Christian terrorism, Jewish terrorism and Buddhist terrorism?"