Going into the religion or motivation of the bombers, with only onsite SPECULATION that they were Chechen in the first place would be irresponsible.
Over the next few hours, as actual FACTS are discovered and reported, then such clarifications might make sense. But to lay out a history of the Chechnya conflict and its motivations, religious, nationalistic and cultural, would make no sense. Yet. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > > The Chechen rebels have Islamic roots, certainly, but what about all > the other places that have broken away/tried to break away from Russia > since the collapse of the USSR? Is there something about Chechen that > makes it especially relevant to mention that it is Muslim versus, say, > South Ossetia which is Christian? > > Judah > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That is not good reporting, it is sh!t reporting. They talk about the > > Chechen conflict but fail to note that Chechen rebels have Islamic > > fundamentalist elements at their roots. Context, anyone? > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > >> > >> LOL. > >> > >> That is called _good reporting_! > >> > >> It may be hard to recognize in this day and age, but the reporters > should > >> _never_ get ahead of the facts. > >> > >> Speculation about the religion of the bombers, before they know who they > >> are, is not the way it should be done. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
