“Asians” Attack Scotland

by Dennis Peacocke

As most of the civilized world knows, last week Scotland was attacked at one of its major airports by Islamic extremists. Tied into a foiled plot by fellow Al-Qaeda Muslims in London, the attack proved that the “game is still very much on” in terms of Muslims taking the attack to Europe and beyond. To most of us, this comes as no surprise.

What is shocking is that the press described the attackers as “Asians.” Shades of Pearl Harbor leaped into my confused head. Why would China or Japan attack poor Scotland? Was it Muslims from Indonesia? Pray tell, what is going on? The newspapers however, at the end of the report, becalmed my fluttering heart by explaining that “Asians” meant people from Pakistan or Iran. Now my poor brain went into a destabilized state.

“Asians” now means Muslims from Iran or Pakistan? Historic geography has called Iran the Middle East for centuries. As for Pakistan, it is most frequently linked to the areas of the sub-continent of India. “Asians?” This mysterious euphemism can be linked only to three likely options: political correctness of the liberal persuasion; abysmal ignorance of geography; or very poor hallucinogenic drugs. I vote for option number one.

Conservative euphemisms frequently bore me, but liberal euphemisms often open up whole new horizons of possibilities my limited mind had previously never entertained. “Asians?” What are the reporters trying to obscure or deflect? Sarcasm aside, I’m sure we know. Anything linked to the current American involvement in the Middle East must be covered by slight of hand reporting.

Nevertheless, the possibilities of revisionist liberal history are intriguing. The Japanese didn’t attack Pearl Harbor; it was those of the Coast of Alaska. Hitler wasn’t the real culprit; it was a “descendant of Luther’s Reformation.” The Napoleonic Wars were badly hazed. It should have been called the “Battles for Saxony and Beyond.” Genghis Khan got a bad rap as a marauding despot from the high steppes of Asia. He was merely “an agitated horseman from the extremes of Eastern Europe.”

Euphemisms are fun, except when they obscure life-and-death realities. Come on, revisionist reporters of the world, tell it like it is. Small wonder your credibility ratings continue to drop. They were garden variety Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists tied into the whole unified cause, and that is. . .