Sunday, May 04, 2014
Who's a militant? Who's a terrorist?
Just noticed something. BBC and NPR both steadfastly and famously refused to call al-Qaeda's soldiers terrorists when those soldiers were attacking New York or London. They were 'extremists' or 'militants'.
Now BBC and NPR are easily using the term terrorists to describe the pro-Russian forces in Ukraine. Ukraine's dubious government calls them terrorists, so we do the same. None of the usual indirection like "so-called terrorists" or "which they call terrorists". Just terrorists.
From a religious viewpoint it's strangely inconsistent. BBC and NPR are totally on Satan's side. Anti-god, anti-civilization, pro-abort, pro-fag, pro-euthanasia. Though some Islamic factions are fighting against Russia for ethnic reasons, the basic moral codes of Muslims and Russians are aligned with God's side on these particular issues. Thus there's no religious reason to distinguish between Muslims and Russians.
A more likely explanation is simple stupid team-based partisanship. Bush was fighting against al-Qaeda. Obama is fighting against Russia. In the alien "minds" of NPR/BBC, Bush is Public Enemy #1, so we must say the opposite of anything he says. Obama is Our Lord And Savior, so we must say exactly the same thing he says.
The American commercial networks are using more neutral terminology like "pro-Russian fighters." Apparently they learned something from the earlier kerfuffle about al-Qaeda extremists. Good for them.
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