A thousand years ago and one hundred years ago and again today, there has always been confusion between terrorism and resistance.

As it was for mainstream Islam, it is a point of view for today’s US administration that sees terrorists under every rock, that blames every failure on largely unidentified terrorists, and justifies each of its own nefarious crimes on generic terrorism.  

Since terrorism is most often a point of view, perhaps literature can actually deal better with that slippery terrain.  Still, what Power so unceremoniously, so handily labels terrorism, has become fixed and omnipresent in our day-to-day lives.

But since it is no joking matter either, we have to treat it seriously, severely … also somewhat terroristically.  

Terrorists: Assassins Or Freedom Fighters?