The Banality of Terrorism: Sydney’s Other Hostage Crisis of 1984

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole

One’s heart goes out to the Sydney hostages. But it is distressing to see the hostage-taker made 10 feet tall by the media and to have Daesh (which is what most Arabs derisively call Islamic State) invoked.

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