Who did it ?
Newshound | 08.09.2004 23:22
In CNN's latest article on the Beslan slaughter, they at least use the word "terrorists," but you will not find "Islam" or "Muslim" or "Islamist" or anything of the kind -- even though the "Chechen rebels" want their own muslim state ruled by Islamic laws.
Why are the "masked gunmen" who murdered over 150 children are not being prominently identified by the media as Islamic terrorists: They're Terrorists -- Not Activists.
Politically-correct news organizations undermine their credibility with such subterfuges [as using euphemisms for terrorist]. How can one trust what one reads, hears, or sees when the self-evident fact of terrorism is being semi-denied? Worse, the multiple euphemisms for terrorist obstruct a clear understanding of the violent threats confronting the civilized world. It is bad enough that only one of five articles discussing the Beslan atrocity mentions its Islamist origins; worse is the miasma of words that insulates the public from the evil of terrorism.
And The Wall Street Journal examines why so many continue to look for causes of terrorism other than Islamist ideology: The Children of Beslan.
In the face of such horror, who can offer up any shred of justification? Yet that is precisely what has happened in the wake of every terrorist event the world has seen in recent years. By such lights, terrorism is viewed as a political act, intended to draw sympathetic attention to a cause -- in this case the brutal Russian occupation of Chechnya.
Post-9/11, there were those who "explained" the attacks by blaming U.S. policy in the Mideast as behind the "desperation" of the hijackers. After the Madrid bombings, half the Spanish electorate effectively blamed their nation's participation in the war in Iraq by voting out the government that supported the U.S. In the wake of every suicide bombing in Israel, that country's policy on Palestinians is deemed responsible in many quarters, especially in Europe. Post-Beslan, who is prepared to blame the children?
Politically-correct news organizations undermine their credibility with such subterfuges [as using euphemisms for terrorist]. How can one trust what one reads, hears, or sees when the self-evident fact of terrorism is being semi-denied? Worse, the multiple euphemisms for terrorist obstruct a clear understanding of the violent threats confronting the civilized world. It is bad enough that only one of five articles discussing the Beslan atrocity mentions its Islamist origins; worse is the miasma of words that insulates the public from the evil of terrorism.
And The Wall Street Journal examines why so many continue to look for causes of terrorism other than Islamist ideology: The Children of Beslan.
In the face of such horror, who can offer up any shred of justification? Yet that is precisely what has happened in the wake of every terrorist event the world has seen in recent years. By such lights, terrorism is viewed as a political act, intended to draw sympathetic attention to a cause -- in this case the brutal Russian occupation of Chechnya.
Post-9/11, there were those who "explained" the attacks by blaming U.S. policy in the Mideast as behind the "desperation" of the hijackers. After the Madrid bombings, half the Spanish electorate effectively blamed their nation's participation in the war in Iraq by voting out the government that supported the U.S. In the wake of every suicide bombing in Israel, that country's policy on Palestinians is deemed responsible in many quarters, especially in Europe. Post-Beslan, who is prepared to blame the children?
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Call them terrorists if you want
09.09.2004 00:09
Sonic
Justifying terror.
09.09.2004 00:20
"Right-wing rabbis urge IDF to hit harder at terrorism
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
The heads of West Bank yeshivas and members of the Yesha Council of Settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip?s rabbinical council urged the government Tuesday not to avoid harming Palestinians if it means an effective war on terrorism.
In a letter published Tuesday, the settler community leaders called on the government to toughen its policies in the territories even at the cost of civilian Palestinians lives. They also declared that the army should show less regard for the welfare of Palestinian civilians if terrorists are hiding in their midst.
The letter to Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz was issued by a number of prominent hard-line rabbis, including Haim Druckman, the head of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva network; Eliezer Melamed, the head of Har Bracha yeshiva; and Yuval Sharlo, a head of a yeshiva in Petah Tikva which combines Torah learning with active IDF service.
"There is no war in the world in which it is possible to delineate entirely between the population and the [enemy] army, neither in the U.S. war in Iraq, the Russian war in Chechnya, nor in Israel's wars with its enemies." the rabbis wrote.
The rabbis' statement posed the question, "Should the IDF fight the enemy, if civilians [on the other side] will be killed, or should the IDF refrain from fighting, and thus endanger our civilians?" The rabbis quote the sage Rabbi Akiva in responding that "Our lives come first."
"Christians preaching 'turn the other cheek' will not cause us to panic, and we will not be view favorably those who prefer the lives of our enemies on our own lives."
Sonic
israels sympathy for Russia ...
09.09.2004 08:04
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This is a Daniel Pipes repost
09.09.2004 08:18
Or are you a little shy of revealing the author's real motives?
spanner
the civilized world
09.09.2004 09:17
the same thing has been happening somewhere in the world every night for the past century. this is what shores up your civilized world. but you know that don't you?
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