Let’s get militant about weasel words

One of the most disappointing aspects of media coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks - as with earlier attacks - has been the use of the word “militant” to describe the terrorists.

People who torture and murder innocent civilians, including women and More

A relative view of the Indian terror toll

In 2005, a conference in Adelaide was advised to treat the road toll as seriously as the threat of terrorism. On ABC radio on Friday, Sally Warhaft, editor of the Monthly magazine, seemed to treat terrorism like the road toll. Proving again that everything is relative to the postmodern mind.

That Warhaft should refer to a terrorist attack in India as unexpected was … unexpected. As the US Dept of State reported earlier this year:

“India continued to rank among the world’s most terror-afflicted countries. The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, attacks by extreme leftist Naxalites and Maoists in eastern and central India, assaults by ethno-linguistic nationalists in the northeastern More

India is confronting a home-grown Islamic militancy

THE previously unknown group that claimed responsibility for the attacks across Mumbai has added to the growing belief that India is confronting a home-grown Islamic militancy. Daily Telegraph

Rudd Govt hypocritical on India: Robb

Andrew Robb
on Network 10

The Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrew Robb said the Rudd Government’s position against Australian uranium exports for India has opened up another front of hypocrisy, with the Foreign Minister Stephen Smith saying in an overnight speech in India that the two nations need to work together on climate change.

“Stephen Smith has said that one of the major challenges that the countries in the region face is climate change yet in the same speech he has again stated that the Rudd Government will not supply Australian uranium to India for clean power generation,” Mr Robb said. More