The State Department could learn a thing or two from Solomon Bradman. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is up in arms over a course offered by Bradman’s security firm aimed at helping Seattle police better combat Islamic terrorism. When CAIR’s Washington state chapter president, Arsalan Bukhari complained that the course, “The Threat of Islamic Jihadists to the World,” links Islam to terrorism, Bradman dared speak the unspeakable: “I think their religion got linked to terrorism a long time ago.”

Instead of worrying about “The Threat of Islamic Jihadists to the World,” CAIR might want to worry about the threat of Islamic jihadists to the world. And so, too, might the State Department. In April, they issued a memo counseling “caution in using terms such as, ‘jihadist,’ ‘Islamic terrorist,’ ‘Islamist,’ and ‘holy warrior’.” Supposedly, using “grandiose” language to describe terrorists glamorizes their status in the eyes of the world. But the PC pay-off of the language shift is clear. We’re supposed to keep in mind that not all Muslims are jihadists. Of course, no serious national security official or policy maker has ever said they were.

CAIR is a propagandist organization that specializes in blurring the intentions of those who fight Islamic extremism. Their ever-broadening definition of Islamophobia threatens to swallow up the very notion of accuracy in this fight.