Sund fornuft spredes

Her i blogosfæren er vi en del, der har brokket os over at store dele af medierne nægter at forholde sig til virkeligheden ved feks at kalde terrorister for....tja, terrorister.

Jeg har tidligere her på bloggen nævnt hvordan BBC, efter London blev ramt af terrorangreb kaldte terroristerne for terrorister. Det tod dem imidlertid kun et par timer at skifte mening igen og udslette næsten alle spor af det, så de kunne kalde dem "bombebænd" istedet.

Andre steder bider den sunde fornuft sig istedet fat - i Dallas News, feks (via Angantyrs Hjørne):

Today, this editorial board resolves to sacrifice another word – "insurgent" – on the altar of precise language. No longer will we refer to suicide bombers or anyone else in Iraq who targets and kills children and other innocent civilians as "insurgents."

People who set off bombs on London trains are not insurgents. We would never think of calling them anything other than what they are – terrorists.

Train bombers in Madrid? Terrorists.

Chechen rebels who take over a Russian school and execute children? Terrorists.

Teenagers who strap bombs to their chests and detonate them in an Israeli cafe? Terrorists.

IRA killers? Basque separatist killers? Hotel bombers in Bali? Terrorists all.

Words have meanings. Whether too timid, sensitive or "open-minded," we've resisted drawing a direct line between homicidal bombers everywhere else in the world and the ones who blow up Iraqi civilians or behead aid workers.

No more. To call them "insurgents" insults every legitimate insurgency in modern history. They are terrorists.

Vel brølt.

Henrik