September 28th, 2008
Change A Few Nouns, And This Would Be “Terrorism”
Not sure what to say about this. I’m not a fan of slapping the “Terrorism!” label on things that are better described as the criminal acts of local assholes, but I can only imagine the national news coverage of this had we switched the ethnicities of the perpetrators/victims, and called the place of worship by another name.
Peej says:
Oh, but you’re missing the point–these people were worshipping that ‘other’ deity, Allah, so this was an act of saving them, not terrorizing them.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Vivian J. Paige says:
You can be sure that the story would be picked up everywhere if those things were switched.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:51 pm