Britain's Unholy Alliance

Steven Plaut in FrontpgeMagazine.com:

Well, I am sure you were all relieved to hear that neither Red Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, nor George Galloway, the British pro-Baathist MP, were among the victims of the al-Qaeda bombers in London. While parts of the British Left have even exhibited some brand new outrage at "terrorism", much of it is reverting not only to character but to caricature of itself.

First, incredibly, the liberal British press is actually using the "T" word. They are referring to the London Underground perps as terrorists. Why is this so unusual? Because the liberal British media have been religiously scrupulous in referring to all terrorists and mass murderers who attack Jews as "activists" and "militants".

It is suddenly like a parallel universe out there, not the one with which we are familiar. The ‘’activists'’ and ‘’militants'’ are suddenly referred to as ‘’terrorists.'’ Even the Guardian and most notably the BBC have discovered the ‘’T'’ word. It was suddenly not a legitimate form of protest against occupation to mass-murder civilians in such mainstream media outfits, although it certainly is among the British radicals. Maybe it was because the "activists" in this case were not simply murdering Jews. Most however, while condemning the perps, insisted that the "underlying cause" of the atrocities was that Britain had joined the US in the war against Islamofascist terrorism, and also insisted that the REAL damage of the bombings would prove to be that the British establishment would institute oppressive anti-democratic measures. In these claims, the British press was not saying much that was distinguishable from what the pro-terror Arab media were saying.

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Posted by Tim Dormain at July 12, 2005 09:30 PM