What, or who, is “terrorism” in America?
In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald compares the application of the word “terrorism” in the case of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing against recent previous acts of mass violence in the United States: It’s hard not to suspect that the only thing distinguishing the Boston attack from Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbine (to say nothing of the US “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and the mass killings in Fallujah) is that the accused Boston attackers are Muslim and the […]
Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Boston, Boston Marathon, Columbine, Connecticut, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Massachusetts, Newtown, Oak Creek, Salon, Sandy Hook, Terrorism, Tucson, Wajahat Ali, Wisconsin
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