Seems as though the word ‘terrorist’ is a name reserved for Muslims.
LAHORE: If the person who killed over 90 people in Norway was a Muslim, the media would have declared him a terrorist. For now though, he is just an ‘assailant’, ‘attacker’ (Reuters), ‘gunman’ (BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera). Seems as though the word ‘terrorist’ is a name reserved for Muslims. The US Dept of State calls it an “act of violence”, not an ‘act of terrorism’ which it clearly is.
Farrukh Saleem
Published in The Express Tribune, August 2nd, 2011.
