Now the Terrorists Are ‘Dissidents’

The MSM's slippery slope of calling terrorists "militants" and "activists" got even more slippery. Michael Jansen of the Irish Times…

By July 01, 2010

The MSM's slippery slope of calling terrorists "militants" and "activists" got even more slippery. Michael Jansen of the Irish Times visited Palestinian rejectionist groups in Damascus. Get a load of this headline:

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Jansen's dissidents? None other than Hamas and the PFLP.

Could the Times possibly be any more morally obtuse? Gilad Shalit's Hamas captors now share the same label as Aung San Suu Kyi. As for the PFLP, if a decade of airplane hijackings doesn't qualify as terror, what does?

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