Depends on who you are

Is terrorism only in the mind of the beholder? ..or of the press?

If you don't live in Texas, chances are you're not aware of William Krar. You may not know that an FBI raid on his property in April 2003 netted more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs, and nearly two pounds of sodium cyanide, along with antigovernment and white supremacist literature.

Krar's case 'ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal,' terrorism expert Daniel Levitas told the Christian Science Monitor in December 2003. Yet 'outside Tyler, Texas, the case is almost unknown,' the Monitor reported, noting that there had been 'two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers.'

Now suppose Krar had been a Muslim. Does anyone doubt that this story would have topped the national news, making his name a household word?

Source: Ethics Newsline from the Institute for Global Ethics