Has the word "Terrorist" Completey Associated itself with the Islamic Faith

[killerzX]

Kasz216 said:

hatmoza said:

Kasz216 said:
Nobody every uses the term terrorist for "domestic" terrorism.

Generally i wouldn't call someone a terrorist unless they had a goal that was political or religious nature.

Like say.... the Unibomber i'd say was a domestic terrorist.

While I agree. I still believe If it was an Arab American who comitted this domestic crime it would be labeled as terrorism -which in the end is the OP's whole point. Terrorism is now only associated with Islam. We can argue on the forums that we know better and we can separate domestic crime and terrorism, we can throw definitions all around, but in the whole scheme of things the media is doing a shitty job not making it look like Terror=Islam.

Fair enough.  Yeah I suppose if it was an Aram American the first thing the media would do is throw out there that it might be related to some terror incident.  Then when it turned out to just be some crazy asshole admonish people for the idea that it's a terrorist even though they put it in everyones heads.

I don't think the Beltway sniper guy was called a terrorist.

Though oddly, he was convicted of terrorism despite his motive being to cover up a murder he wanted to comit.

if it was an arab that did this, especially if he had done it in the name of islam. the media would quickly brush it to the side, but first try to seek understanding of why he did it, and have us try to see things from his perspective, and if only we were more tolerant of him, he may not have done this.

i can garantee you, the media had droves of researchers franticly checking to see if this guy had any tea-party/conservative connections.