Lies, damned lies and terrorists

Most low-intensity attacks against businesses and governments are carried out by terrorists who have nothing to do with Islam

These are facts. In 2006, there were 498 incidents described as "terrorist attacks" across the European Union. Exactly 424 of these attacks were carried out by "separatist terrorists" such as the Basque group Eta, operating in Spain and France, and were limited to the Basque region and Corsica. Eta itself was responsible for 136 of these. Left-wing and anarchist groups, active in Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain, carried out 55 attacks. The vast majority ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Topics: Terrorism, Islam
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 19, 2007 - 11:14 AM PDT
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by Mark Monday - May. 19, 2007

Much important information is left out of the story, including issues like advance warning on attacks, the use of European territory for planning, financing etc. This piece is designed to press one point and is highly selective in its use of facts. As a propaganda piece it's pretty well done; as journalism, nope!

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by Kaizar Campwala - May. 19, 2007
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by Fabrice Florin - May. 19, 2007
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by William Wittmeyer - May. 19, 2007

Let us not worry about Islamic terrorism because our homegrown loony leftist terrorists commit more terrorist acts than the Islamo-fascists. He makes not attempt to weight the effect of the terrorist act. In addition he ignores the state sponsorship of Islamic terrorism and the political agenda of Iran and Saudi Arabia

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