…When was the last time you watched a mainstream media newscast in which the anchor person used the term “savage” to describe these Arab Muslim assassins and suicide cultists or “barbarians”?

It used to be a word that gave no trouble to the most liberal and open-minded of Westerners, such as the principle author of the American Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, whose declaration was largely an indictment of the crimes against the American colonists committed by the agents of King George III, one of them being the charge that he had “excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontier, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

Which I say is as good a definition of terrorism as any.

Jefferson, it should also be noted, himself had grown up on the frontier and knew the Indians well. He knew of their good qualities and virtues but also of their cruelty. During the rebellion, the Crown had indeed been supported by the Indians who rightly saw in the rebellion American colonists hungry for even more land. Indeed, one reputable historian suggested that more non-combatant colonists — families, men, women and children — were killed by Indians than those who fell in battle fighting British troops and their Hessians mercenaries. The Indians liked to strike at dawn when bleary-eyed settlers woke up and went outside to answer nature’s call and be pounced upon with their pants down, literally, a good time to bash them in the head with a tomahawk.

And neither did Thomas Jefferson after the Revolution when posted to Europe and was faced with hijacking and hostage-taking by Muslims refrain from calling them savages and barbarians.

It certainly would be a refreshing change for official Israel and all the liberal nominally free Western liberal democracies to drop the term terrorist which has become so worn down it no longer has any impact. I look forward to the day when the MSM here and everywhere stops calling these murderers terrorists. Call them murderers. Call them savages. Call them homicidal Muslim maniacs…