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From: raghu@rlgvax.UUCP (Raghu Raghunathan)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought)
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:34:44 EST
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> There has been a lot of discussion on the net about terrorism and
> freedom of speech, well, I am very surprised that the murder of Mr.
> Odeh the director of the Arab American Anti Discrimination Association
> did not even give rise to a passing comment.  He was murdered two weeks
> ago in California for voicing his opinions on television.
> 
> It seems that this act of "terrorism" has been hardly noticed by the
> general public or media.
> 
	I totally agree. When an innocent American is killed abroad
	by Arabs (or Palestinians), all hell breaks loose among the
	journalists and the news media, but when an equally innocent
	Arab-sympathizer is killed in America by Americans, it is
	conveniently ignored by the news media. I did see a small blurp
	in the Washington Post a few weeks back about Odeh but nothing
	more.

	Both murders were acts of terrorism and both deserve reasonable
	coverage in the news.
							- Raghu.