Fred Bauder wrote
In our efforts to be politically correct we are unable to describe
al-Qaeda
as a terrorist organization or East Germany as a totalitarian regime. Thus we distort reality and drift off into a fantastic world where there is no black and white, no values and ultimately a rather poor encyclopedia that can't be trusted.
Fred
The Wikipedia I edit is rather different. It is not 'safe for professionals' in many respects, but its attempts to outline the overall structure of fields and knowledge are rather creditable. It shows an idealism rooted in the wiki concept, and a romanticism that goes back two centuries, too.
I see my dictionary defines 'militant' as 'engaged in warfare'. A euphemism only if one regards 'warfare' as a euphemism for killing people - which is arguable.
Charles