Word: terroristã
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...promises of change, hope, and inclusiveness, this campaign year has been shot through with a surprisingly virulent strain of prejudice and intolerance. The combination of anti-Arabic tensions arising from our nation’s war in the Middle East and a presidential candidate with a “terrorist?? name has lent itself to a mushroom cloud of anti-Islamic sentiment, sanctioned by an unquestioning public...
...Iranian parliament’s resolution uses the word “terrorist?? rather liberally and, given conventional definitions, incorrectly. But U.S. lawmakers should think twice about condemning this propagandist political move. The American government, in conducting its “war on terror” is no stranger to semantic sleights of hand, displaying a tendency to label (or mislabel) just as egregiously as the Iranian parliament...
Take, for example, Barack “Terrorist?? Obama. We know your middle name is Hussein, man. Sure, he has great academic credentials—if you think attending an Indonesian school counts as academic. What’s to keep him from putting a jihad on the American people...
Worse still, the definition of “terrorist?? is open-ended and subjective. The law states, “any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished as a military commission...may direct...
...wrote his new novel, Updike noticed similarities between how the Christian protagonist David in his early short story “Pigeon Feathers” and Ahmad in “Terrorist?? become skeptical of leaders in their respective faiths. Both young men are concerned about whether their mentors believe in the Scripture that they profess...