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To: skinowski who wrote (173686)	7/15/2006 3:28:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793800

The unspoken message? Terrorists are incapable of behaving like human beings, so it is incumbent on the human beings to "acquiesce." It's not exactly that they are incapable. It's that they are "other-cultured" and have a history of opression, so we are not supposed to judge their behavior, however barbaric. Is there a "final straw," something perpetrated by jihadists so heinous it would be "inexcusable?" The bet here is not even a mushroom cloud would temper the "reasoning" of this intellectually bankrupt bunch I take a wry amusement watching the BBC. I always thought that when there was a suicide bombing in London instead of Tel Aviv, the Beeb would change its tune. And it did, sort of. I have several times heard them refer to the 7/7 attacks as a "terrorist atrocity" in their own voice & without scare quotes. But it's still against their policy to use "terrorist" or "terrorism" except when quoting somebody, so they usually stick to the same "attack" or "bombing" language they use for attacks elsewhere.