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| 2004-09-08 |
| Murder by Any Other Name Not to exaggerate or generalize or anything, but in the past week or so it seems to have become very slightly less OK to speak of jihad as an understandable reaction to underlying Muslim grievances. The murder of innocents in a Russian school may have been secondarily the result of a panic or a bungle by Vladimir Putin's "special forces," but nobody is claiming that the real responsibility lies anywhere but on the shoulders of the Muslim fanatics. And the French state's policy of defending secularism in its schools may have been clumsily and even "insensitively" applied, but nobody says that the kidnapping and threatened murder of two French reporters is thereby justified. As for the slaughter of the Nepalese workers in Iraq 
you simply have to see the video and hear the Quranic incantations in the voice-over. (I use the words "murder" and "slaughter" by the way, and shall continue to do so, as I hope you will, too. How the New York Times can employ the term "execution" for these atrocities is beyond me.) i.e. PC language lessens the impact of what really is going on . . . continues |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #1 It wasn't all unambiguous—some critics said that the Chechen outrage was so bad that the Israelis must have been behind it.. Sounds like Hitchens may have been reading UFO's posts. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-08 5:16:48 PM |