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NPR is running a series this week on words that have come into or evolved in cultural and political parlance since 9\/11<\/a>. The two thus far — jihad<\/em><\/a> and Islamofascism<\/em><\/a> are fascinating in terms of how the terms came to be,
\nwhat they’ve meant at different times, and how their (mis)use may be alienating folks we’d rather have on our side.<\/p>\n

Terms later this week: War on Terror<\/em>, Imperialism<\/em>, and Democracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR is running a series this week on words that have come into or evolved in cultural and political parlance since 9\/11. The two thus far — jihad and Islamofascism…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":727,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/19\/the_private_bus.html","url_meta":{"origin":9790,"position":0},"title":"The Private Business of Public Radio","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Nov-01 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting piece on NPR and the ways it is -- and isn't -- like commercial radio. 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