None Dare Call It "Terrorism"?

Daniel Pipes on the persistent refusal of major media sources to label terrorists as “terrorists.” Excerpt:

The reluctance to call terrorists by their rightful name can reach absurd lengths of inaccuracy and apologetics. For example, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition announced on April 1, 2004, that “Israeli troops have arrested 12 men they say were wanted militants.” But CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, pointed out the inaccuracy here and NPR issued an on-air correction on April 26: “Israeli military officials were quoted as saying they had arrested 12 men who were ‘wanted militants.’ But the actual phrase used by the Israeli military was ‘wanted terrorists.'”

(At least NPR corrected itself. When the Los Angeles Times made the same error, writing that “Israel staged a series of raids in the West Bank that the army described as hunts for wanted Palestinian militants,” its editors refused CAMERA’s request for a correction on the grounds that its change in terminology did not occur in a direct quotation.)

One more reason the MSM has *major* problems.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “None Dare Call It "Terrorism"?”

  1. Interesting how moral relativism and these euphamisms go hand in hand, “choice” for example, which is itself a uephamism for “race hygiene”.

    Thanks for keeping up your militant (no euphamism) battle on behalf of truth Mr.Akin.

  3. I find it interesting that CAMERA goes to great lengths to correct the media on Palestinian terrorism while going to the same lengths to defend Irgun (including their bombing of the King David Hotel) and the Stern Gang. CAMERA is not objective in this matter.

  4. Another aspect to this story is the failure of the media to report the Ashcroft Justice Department’s appalling failure to combat and/or prosecute domestic (read: white anglo-saxon) terrorism within the United States.

    Just last month a pipe bomb was exploded at a laboratory that conduct stem cell research in Massachusetts.

    And the continuing problems with the militia black-helicopter crowd have been well-documented.

    Add to this the fact that nearly 800 servicemen and women returning from Iraq have been diagnosed with dementia and other mental health disorders, thus creating fertile ground for the next Timothy McVeigh, and the problems are very real.

  5. I agree with Esquire.

    Dementia and other mental disorders are a real problem in our society.

    And if John “Taliban” Ashcroft would stop eating babies for just a few minutes maybe he could something about it.

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