Whitehall officials have been issued with a guide on how to talk about Islamist terrorists without offending Muslims.
One thing they should not do is call them Islamist terrorists but instead ministers and civil servants have been told to refer to them as "criminals".
The guide tells civil servants not to use terms such as Islamist extremism or jihadi-fundamentalist.
Instead, they should refer to violent extremism and criminal murderers or thugs to avoid any implication that there is an explicit link between Islam and terrorism....