understandable

Reader comment on item: The Voice of America, Silenced on Radical Islam
in response to reader comment: Importance of Language Choice

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Mar 9, 2009 at 20:54

Carl writes:

"...... As a result, the term "Christian fundamentalist" is hardly used, and when it is, it is not viewed in a pejorative light. However, by replacing the word "Christian" with "Islamic", fundamentalist suddenly take on a negative tone to the western ear and probably does the opposite to Muslims."

That's probably true - but perfectly understandable. Not many Christian (or Buddhist or Hindu or Jewish) fundamentalists have flown airpplanes full of people into skyscrapers.

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