"We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist or an act as being terrorist. What we try to do is to say that 'two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine'. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is," said [Tarik] Kafala.
"Terrorism is such a loaded word," he added. "The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t. It is very difficult to. We know what political violence is, we know what murder, bombings and shootings are and we describe them. That’s much more revealing, we believe, than using a word like terrorist which people will see as value-laden." [emphasis added]
You know who doesn't have a hard time figuring out who a terrorist is?
Probably P.O.W. Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, roasted alive after being doused in gasoline, that's who.
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