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Dylann Roof and “terrorism”
I see where no less an authority on terrorism than Jon Stewart has decreed that Dylann Roof was a terrorist.
I think that's giving Mr. Roof way more credit than he is due.
Nine dead in Charleston. How often do nine dead in Baghdad or Kabul or some other hell-hole of America's making make the news?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Dylann Roof didn't come out of nowhere. He came out of a winner-take-all culture that needs to scape-goat the losers.
He found his scape-goats in a church that was so full of kindness that they welcomed him in.
Labelling him a “terrorist” shifts the narrative to America's “war on terror.” As a Jon Stewart fan of long standing I would like to think that's not what he had in mind.
Dylann Roof is not a terrorist. He's an American. He's an American so alienated from his country that a shocking act of mass murder seemed to him to be a credible act of protest.
Dylann Roof was wrong.
So is Jon Stewart.
Source: http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2015/06/dylann-roof-and-terrorism.html
