Christian Terrorists?

Why not Catholic or Christian terrorists? That is what Australian Islamic leaders are asking. Focusing on ‘Islamist terrorism’, and at the same time, marking the card of anyone with Islamist connections, they argue, is counterproductive to the whole exercise.
The fact is governments like Australia and the US and to be fair, a number of Islamist governments, are all to ready to promote fear and xenophobia.
Without, in any way, approving or condoning such acts, I can understand how the zealot can reach that stage of outrage and disconnection from normal society. I can see how the IRA soldier, the fanatical anti abortionist, the freedom fighter reaches their ultimate misguided end.
What I can’t understand is how governments, those entrusted with our safety and well being, can promote vilification and hate as powerful as those held by the terrorist. Indeed, if the desire is to create enemies, why not constitutional or entrepreneurial terrorist?

While on the subject of entrepreneurial approaches, I note that the US military is paying to have articles place in Iraqi newspapers. These are gloss pieces, propaganda, intended to improve the increasingly tarnished image of the US military in that country.
Good Luck!
A compliant ‘homeland’ readership might respond well to the warm human interest stories of cuddly, gum chewing GIs. The people of Iraq might just be a little bit past that stage. Having been raped by Saddams’s pirates they are now basking in the largess of a multitude of rapacious invaders and claimants.
The western military have not particularly distinguished themselves, in the eyes of Iraqis. The genius who decided that democracy could flourish in a culture of murderous competing claims for power has ensured chaos for years to come.
The Pentagon has outsourced propaganda propagation in Iraq to a Washington-based firm called Lincoln Group. This is not to be confused with the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Inc., founded in 1935 and devoted to extolling the virtues of old Abe.
The war department’s Lincoln Group formed Lincoln Group was created in 1999 “to pursue private sector opportunities in Iraq.” It claims to bring “a unique combination of expertise in collecting and exploiting information; structuring transactions; and mitigating risks through due diligence and legal strategies.”
Good on you Donald Rumsfeld, that plan is almost, just almost as good as your plan to beat those damned insurgents!
What plan, I hear you ask. Well that old war horse, Donald, is getting rather tired of this continuing insurgency business. It’s costing him sleep.
"Over the weekend, I thought to myself, 'You know, that gives them a greater legitimacy than they seem to merit'.” 'Enemies of the legitimate Iraqi Government' — how's that?" asks Donald.
Yup, that should solve the problem alright. Oh, and Don… While you are at it, let’s drop the terrorist label, it only encourages them. You know they get up at three every morning to see what is in the papers about them. I think we should call them ‘enemies of the legitimate government of the United States of America’.
Let’s face it Don, it has a ring to it, and it allows you to take a whack at just about anyone you like, or don’t like as the case may be.