[lit-ideas] Re: New EU lexicon on terror


--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Having read several books on the European
> predicament, I read every new
> article I come across.  Perhaps the EU is developing
> a backbone.  Perhaps it
> is now dealing more firmly with the Islamist
> problem.  Not in Diana West's
> opinion.  [Lawrence]

> 
> As they say over there: What rot. Only hothouse EU
> officials could believe
> that words such as "Islamic terrorism" cause
> radicalization. Fanatical
> bloodlust (not to mention 72-virgin-lust) inspires
> acts labeled "Islamic
> terrorism," not the other way around. But not in
> EU-land. 

*Ah, the explanatory power or terms such as
"bloodlust." I guess that the critics of the US
government policies should add "bloodlust" to their
analytical lexicon, too.

O.K.

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