Posted by
Musing Minds on Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:49:15 AM
Terrorism isn’t terrorism when a Naveed Afzal Haq is charged with a hate crime for killing and wounding Jews at a Jewish center in Seattle. This after he announced, “I’m a Muslim American; I’m angry at Israel,”
Terrorism isn’t terrorism when the Deputy Secretary of the UN, Mark Malloch Brown, says
that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and
Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a
terrorist organization.
“It’s not helpful to couch this war in the language of
international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an
organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate
and different from Al Qaeda,” [emphasis mine] he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
And I think therein lies the problem. The press and the left seem to
think that it’s terrorism only if Al Qaeda is involved. If Al Qaeda and
Osama Bin Ladin aren’t involved, if Osama Bin Ladin isn’t pulling the
strings or sending out the orders, then it isn’t terrorism. The press
and the left had a very hard time even considering that Zarqawi was Al
Qaeda in Iraq (because Al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq dontcha
know).
Somehow, the word terrorism for the left and the press is narrowly
defined and limited to Al Qaeda. That needs to be changed. Terrorism
knows no particular ideology or ethnic background. Currently the main
force of terrorism is Islamofascists, but there are others. MS-13 comes
to mind as one (see Michelle Malkin’s coverage of this group).
Thanks to Hang Right Politics for pointing me to the Malloch Brown story.
Originally posted at Musing Minds