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Yeah, I know, Greenwald, but he's on point here.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/17/why-is-the-killer-of-british-mp-jo-cox-not-being-called-a-terrorist
Despite all of this, its virtually impossible to find any media outlet calling the attacker a terrorist or even suggesting that it might be terrorism. To the contrary, the suspected killer overnight has been alternatively described as a gentle soul or a mentally ill loner:
This stands in stark contrast to a very similar incident that took place in the U.K. in 2010, when a British MP, Stephen Timms, was brutally stabbed and almost killed by a woman angry over his vote in support of the Iraq War. In that case, British media outlets almost uniformly called the attack terrorism; The Guardian, for instance, described it as the first terrorist attack to injure someone on the U.K. mainland since 7 July 2005. The headline of the British tabloid Mirror called the attacker a woman terrorist. And just yesterday, another tabloid, The Sun, reported on Timmss comments about Cox and, in its headline, referred to him as Terror Stab Survivor.
The difference is obvious: Timmss attacker was a Muslim of Bangladeshi descent, while Coxs alleged killer is not. As Ive written repeatedly, the word terrorism has no real concrete meaning and certainly no consistent application. In the West, functionally speaking, its now a propaganda term with little meaning other than a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies. Its even used for Muslims who attack soldiers of an army occupying their country.
Odin2005
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BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)"shade" test. It works every time.
pampango
(24,692 posts)jack_krass
(1,009 posts)As a terrorist.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)jack_krass
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life, but McVeigh was universally acclaimed as a terrorist.
Same with the white IRA bombers(exceptions exist, but almost always by sympathisers of the cause), ot anybody else whos goals were/are to soread terror through violence.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)Few on the right were called terrorism
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)malaise
(268,994 posts)Follow the meme
ck4829
(35,076 posts)Jim David Adkisson, the man who shot people in the Tennessee Unitarian Universalist Church to kill liberals in 2008 pretty much described his own actions as terrorism, but the media still said it was not, that it was just the lone isolated actions of a deranged man. Just like Thomas Mair, they didn't shout "Allahu Ackbar" and they had ultra right propaganda and not the Quran found as their reading material.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Jo Cox murder suspect tells court his name is 'death to traitors, freedom for Britain'
Thomas Mair has given his name as death to traitors, freedom for Britain during his appearance in court charged with the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
Lady Lawrence warned that a message of hatred against foreigners or people with different religions had been getting louder in the UK and US, citing the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. She criticised comments by Boris Johnson about Obamas ancestry and said a poster unveiled by Nigel Farage on Thursday was reminiscent of Nazi propaganda.
In the light of the killing, some politicians have questioned the tone of the referendum debate. Writing in the Guardian, Gordon Brown said: Unless we strive for a culture of respect to replace a culture which does too little to challenge prejudice, we will be learning nothing from what happened to Jo.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/18/thomas-mair-charged-with-of-mp-jo-cox
If the suspect had given his name as "Death to infidels, freedom for Sharia Law", I suspect the term 'terrorism' would have been quickly applied. Killing for political reasons is terrorism no matter what the specific politics are.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)have been labeled "terrorists". They're white, but apparently recent converts to Islam.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027930319
I'm sensing a pattern.