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I assume crikey deems this an apt approach to analysing this issue; but is it unreasonable to hope we might see a less Twitterish response some time soon?
Yes, but how many of these tweets will become Tony Abbott policies for the next election?
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible. Says Rupert.
The same analogy applied to the UK hacking affair would put Rupert in the frame as being fully responsible. He chose rather to say: “this is the humblest day of my life” and claiming, I know nothing about the hacking that went on in the UK.
Firstly could the media start calling these criminals by the correct name….CRIMINAL Calling them terrorists gives them some kind of status. Just like they say such and such takes responsibility for an attack…It should be such and such admits to guilt for crime.
Next all these people ( such as Murdoch) associating these criminals with Islam and saying peaceful Muslims need to disown them could they please show where they said/wrote the same things abouts say the IRA ?
Next if one is a peaceful person then it goes without saying that one opposes/ finds abhorrent such criminal activity.
Was Tony Abbott for example as a “peaceful” Catholic required to decry the IRA?
At long last Murdoch is giving himself enough rope…