gwax's rumblings

I con­tinue to notice that every time any indi­vid­ual is accused of ter­ror­ist like actions, they are said to have Al-Qaeda con­nec­tions. This makes me won­der, which of the fol­low­ing con­clu­sions is cor­rect: in order to be a ter­ror­ist one must obtain their Al-Qaeda mem­ber­ship card, we only care about Al-Qaeda ter­ror­ists or we want to blame all ter­ror­ism on Al-Qaeda to give it a face. Al-Qaeda, the real world equiv­a­lent to Command & Conquer: General’s GLA.

While we’re on the topic of Al-Qaeda, I know the guy that runs the al-qaeda.net web domain. He’s a nice guy actu­ally, half Egyptian, but no ter­ror­ist, mainly runs the domain as a lark so that he can send and receive email by it. I’ve been try­ing to con­vince him to turn the domain into a group blog so that we can all have fun with the thing.

I guess the point is that not every­thing Al-Qaeda is evil (at least the larks aren’t) and I don’t buy that every­thing ter­ror­ist is Al-Qaeda.

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