al Qaeda slaughters Muslims

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   I would like to get people to think about something very simple, i.e 

how we use language and how this influences the way we consider 

things: If we must refer to "innocent victims" all the time, shouldn't 

we also find some "guilty victims"? There are only victims. One can 

remain a victim or one can become a survivor. Language like this 

annoys me, like declaring how so-called Islamic terrorists are 

attacking " our values and our way of life." Suddenly the leaders of 

U.K/Egypt wherever the latest number of bombing victims has been, 

are telling us the reasons for terrorist acts. This sinks into the public 

perception and nobody bothers to think or question anymore: For 

example WHY was the London underground/bus blown up? if we 

allow our leaders to give us the answer, we shall never clear society 

of the kinds of casual injustice we allow to exist alongside us. 