NEW DELHI: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was captured in a chilling photograph and now he has confessed his role in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, but he remains a 'gunman', rather than a 'terrorist', for the New York Times and other leading American newspapers. And with a reason.
After his surprising and dramatic confession before a special court in Mumbai on Monday, Kasab is hogging headlines in the American media that is revisiting the semantic-ethical issue of which attacker qualifies as terrorist.
For the New York Times and the Washington Post, Kasab is strictly a gunman.
"Mumbai Gunman Enters Plea Of Guilty", the Post headline read a day later, and the 428 words of the report from New Delhi do not include "terrorist" -- not even to qualify the "attack". [link]
This is a strange article from TOI, the paper which does its very best to perpetuate secular myths. Our home grown intellectuals are yet to call Kasab by the 'T' word. The Arundhati Roy types have openly blamed India for 26/11. Apparently Indian security forces rape Kashmiri women which leads to illiterate runaway teens in Pakistani villages to join up certain organizations and who then invade India so they can sexually humiliate guests in Indian hotels before killing them.
The American press is merely following the diktat of the current administration. If the administration is loathe to call a spade a spade, the media, having thrown its total weight behind The One can't really do otherwise. The Times of India and other secular newspapers couldn't get enough of the new savior of the new world. Developing this late allergy over semantics is hardly going to help.
We recommend the TOI stop losing sleep over this and go back to their regular programming of Hindu bashing.
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Jante Law -- This Law explains the snobbery and intolerance of Armies of Pseudo-Secular Media against anyone they don't agree with.
1. Don't think that you are special.
2. Don't think that you are of the same standing as us.
3. Don't think that you are smarter than us.
4. Don't fancy yourself as being better than us.
5. Don't think that you know more than us.
6. Don't think that you are more important than us.
7. Don't think that you are good at anything.
8. Don't laugh at us.
9. Don't think that anyone of us cares about you.
10. Don't think that you can teach us anything.
Further in the book: 11. Don't think that there is something we don't know about you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law
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