Adding up 7/7 and 9/11

It also challenged the automatic assumption that we in the West are liable to make: that we know who the terrorists are — Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Whereas ‘they’, of course, see Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair as terrorists with their British and American roles in the creation and support of Israel and the subjugation of Palestinians, as well as the US support of Russian atrocities against Chechnya and the backing of corrupt and oppressive regimes in Muslim states. We are liable to see terrorists as automatically evil, whereas they see them as ‘Freedom Fighters’. We quickly make a hero out of Nelson Mandela, but formerly he was a terrorist.

Jonathan Fletcher