Inverting the Public Truth of their Own Power and Terrorism

Inverting the Public Truth of their Own Power and Terrorism...
"How is it that western establishments can invert the public truth of their own power and terrorism? The answer is that it is apostasy in Britain and the United States to describe the democracies as terrorist states. That distinction is reserved for the likes of Libya and Iran, which of course are pipsqueak terrorists. Stereotypes are much preferred, such as the 'Mulim fanatic'. In fact, not only have Muslims been responsible for a tiny proportion of deaths caused by terrorism, but in recent years it is they who have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism: in Palestine, Iraq, Bosnia, Chechenya and Somalia. The omission from public debate of these truths is given respectability by a legion of Western academics, think tanks, 'defence' correspondents, and popular western culture. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his successful film True Lies, kills eighty terrorists, all of them Arab Muslims.'Terrorists', wrote the historian Frank Furedi, 'become and foreign people you don't like. Moreover, terrorism is redfined to serve as an all-purpose metaphor for the Third World, demanding concerted action from the West.'"
John Pilger, 'Hidden Agendas', page 34-35