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And yet another article in which the definition of terrorist appears to be "an enemy Muslim". We'll soon need a new word for actual terrorists.
by chmod775 6y ago
And yet another article in which the definition of terrorist appears to be "an enemy Muslim".
We'll soon need a new word for actual terrorists.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoAt least they're described as "enemies" instead of "terrorists" which seems to have become an outlaw status that takes them outside the protection of the Geneva convention (for warfare, prisoners of war, etc).
- gameswithgo 6y agoQAnon?
- Veen 6y agoHow else would you describe a person whose job is to plant explosive devices in the street. 80 percent of the people killed by IEDs in the last decade were civillians (over 130,000). https://reliefweb.int/report/world/decade-global-ied-harm-reviewed https://reliefweb.int/report/world/decade-global-ied-harm-re...
- La1n 6y ago90% of drone strikes kill unintended people, are drone operators terrorists? https://www.amnesty.org.uk/thank-you-us-deadly-drones https://www.amnesty.org.uk/thank-you-us-deadly-drones
- Veen 6y agoMy cat likes acorns. Is she a squirrel?
- chmod775 6y agoNo. Which is the whole point GP was trying to make. Your cat isn't a squirrel, drone operators aren't terrorists, and neither are the Taliban fighters who plant IEDs targeting combatants. I believe the idiom you were actually looking for was "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." At least that might've supported your argument.