That Terrorism means nothing more than violence committed by Muslims whom the West dislikes has been proven repeatedly. When an airplane was flown into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, it was immediately proclaimed to be Terrorism, until it was revealed that the attacker was a white, non-Muslim, American anti-tax advocate with a series of domestic political grievances. The U.S. and its allies can, by definition, never commit Terrorism even when it is beyond question that the purpose of their violence is to terrorize civilian populations into submission. Conversely, Muslims who attack purely military targets -- even if the target is an invading army in their own countries -- are, by definition, Terrorists.
As usual with Greenwald, it's worth reading the whole thing.
You know how a rational person who isn't a far-left demagog like Grenwald would define terrorism? That it is any violent attack directed at unarmed, peaceful civilians, excused to advance a political goal.
ReplyDeleteThat Grenwald would stress credulity to get one more dig in against the US and the West, while trying to excuse terrorism by Islamic militants is a testament to how blindly ideological he is.
Give me a break. I don't know anyone, and I haven't heard anyone in the mainstream Western media call what happened in Norway anything less than terrorism. The same went for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Grenwald is so ridiculously anti-American that he'll jump in bed with Hezbolla, Al-Qaeda, Iran, and any number of terrorist groups, just because they happen to be opposed by the US. It doesn't matter that they're by far more extreme than the Christian Fundamentalists he (and you) hates, nor that they've perpetrated orders of magnitude more murder and atrocities around the world.
Seriously, at some point in your life, you need to see things in more depth than With The US or Against The US. Get your head out of your ass.
> I don't know anyone, and I haven't heard anyone in the mainstream Western media call what happened in Norway anything less than terrorism.
ReplyDeleteThen you didn't read what Greenwald wrote. He backed up his claims with quotes from the New York Times. You may disagree with his interpretation, but if you say that "you haven't heard anyone..." then you are just proclaiming yourself willfully ignorant.
> Seriously, at some point in your life, you need to see things in more depth than With The US or Against The US.
Indeed, but it's YOU raising this particular straw man, not Greenwald.
And then there's this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/bill-oreilly-media-breivik-christian_n_909498.html
"Bill O'Reilly sternly criticized the media for describing Anders Behring-Breivik, the man who has admitted to committing the mass killings in Norway, as a Christian, saying that such a thing was 'impossible.'"