Yes Robin you are right BUT we must always be careful
on what we label as "terrorist acts" and what and who
we blame to be responsible for it.
Payam
--- Robin Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
>
> > You should not be so quick to blame the tragedy on
> > "terrorist acts" without sufficient evidence to
> > support this claim. This is what the media likes
> to do
> > on a regular basis which only serves to perpetuate
> > myths and stereotypes in our society about who the
> > terrorists are, who is to blame, etc.
> >
>
> This is absurd. An unprovoked attack on civilians by
> an unnamed group IS a
> terrorist attack by definition. That's what
> terrorism IS.
>
> That doesn't mean it was necessarily Arabs, or
> Muslims, or any other group
> that is likely to suffer unjust prejudice because of
> this. I hate to think
> of what individuals of Middle-Eastern descent will
> suffer now in our
> country because of this.
>
> But unless several planes flew into the Pentagon and
> World Trade Center by
> accident, this is a terrorist attack.
>
>
>
>
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> Robin Pearce "We are all curators at
> heart, I suppose,
> Boston University of items that we fear no one
> else will have time for."
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Thomas Lynch
>
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