{"id":133126,"date":"2017-03-22T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/so-why-isnt-this-called-terrorism.html"},"modified":"2017-03-22T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:15:56","slug":"so-why-isnt-this-called-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/so-why-isnt-this-called-terrorism.html","title":{"rendered":"So why isn't this called terrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even by the WaPo:<\/p>\n

'A Muslim man from Maryland who told police he traveled to New York to kill Christian men turned himself in on Wednesday, about 24 hours after he fatally stabbed a man he encountered on the street, officials said.<\/i><\/p>\n

Authorities described the suspected attacker as someone who had long harbored feelings of hatred toward Christians before violently acting on them this week. Police said he carried out the attack in a way that intended to draw attention.<\/i><\/p>\n

“The reason why he picked New York is ’cause it’s the media capital of the world,” said William Aubry, assistant chief of the New York City Police Department. “And he wanted to make a statement.”'<\/i><\/p>\n

When you kill folk of a particular group to make a statement … that's usually considered terrorism toward that group. Especially when it's a Muslim killing Christians, right?<\/p>\n

Except in the actual<\/i> story, it was a white<\/i> man killing black<\/i> to make a statement.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/03\/22\/white-man-traveled-to-new-york-to-kill-black-men-and-make-a-statement-police-say\/<\/a><\/p>\n

But that's not terrorism. It is, at most, a "hate crime". Even if it's "making a statement." But accusing a white man in the US of terrorism isn't something that happens very often. Even when it really, truly, looks like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Even by the WaPo: 'A Muslim man from Maryland who told police he traveled to New York to kill Christian men turned himself in on Wednesday, about 24 hours after he fatally stabbed a man he encountered on the street, officials said. 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