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Hey BBC! It’s Islamic Terrorism, Or Muslim Terrorism, Not Terrorism 

    Here’s a wrong that needs to be righted in 2006 that is perpetrated by both the BBC and President George W Bush.

    Why do they talk so loosely about “terrorism”. President Bush always, not to mention Prime Minister Blair or any other western political leader I ever listen too, never delineate what they mean by terrorism, leaving just that all encompassing but vague term to fight for itself.

    Bush tried once to change this, when after the September 11, 2001 crime against humanity, he launched a campaign to fight  “international terrorism”. Presumably, somebody on his staff had pointed out that the IRA would be included in his campaign if he didn’t figure out a definition that would exclude them.

    We are not fighting “terrorism”. We are fighting Islamic terrorism; or Fundamentalist Muslim terrorism. Why not call it like it is?

    The state-controlled BBC is especially egregious in the cowardly way it describes terrorism. The BBC is so frightened of causing offence (in itself a quality in a “news” organisation that ought to have it closed down or reformed from top to bottom; but it’s ok for a propaganda arm of government) that in its reporting of the reasons why so many were killed in the Beslam School Number 1 massacre, the uninitiated might have thought that the Russian police were solely responsible, not the cowardly, ruthless, uncivilised Muslims who used innocent children as a tool to pursue their ludicrous ambitions. 

    Not once was the word “Muslim” used in the reporting on BBC Radio or TV news that I listened to. Once, these cruel, despicable and twisted cowards were called Chechen separatists. That’s it. It is as though these maniacal Muslims actually went to the school carrying gifts and flowers rather than bombs, booby traps and guns, and the only reason 331 innocents died was because of action by the authorities to persuade them to go.

    In 2006 let’s demand of our political leaders and “news” organisations that they tell it like it is. The terrorism we are fighting is traditional, unreformed Islamic terrorism. Unreformed Islam is incompatible with western values of freedom and democracy. That’s why they terrorise us and why we must fight them. It serves no useful purpose to try and pretend that some bland, vague power out there is sending its people to terrorise us for reasons nobody can quite explain.