Eles matam 300 na Rússia, mas mídia ocidental não os rotula de "terroristas". Apenas "rebeldes".
Let’s charitably, for the moment, call it a Western-centric view. But one thing is unmistakable: the Western mainstream news media have a reprehensible double standard when it comes to their coverage of terrorist attacks against Russia compared with incidents in Western countries.
Now contrast this media frenzy with the downbeat Western reaction to an actual terrorist attack less than two weeks ago in the Russian republic of Chechnya. On December 4, 19 people were killed in the city of Grozny when a heavily armed team of Islamist extremists went on the rampage and set a multi-storey media centre ablaze. Ten police officers were killed during a ferocious six-hour gun battle that ended when nine of the attackers were eventually neutralised. There is hard evidence that the assailants were part of the Islamist network belonging to the self-declared South Caucasus emirate of Doku Umarov. This network is officially affiliated with ISIS and other Al Qaeda-type terror groups. Many of the militants from the Russian Caucasus region are known to have travelled to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria. In other words, Russia actually did incur a serious, organised terror attack on December 4 carried out by a group that is ideologically and logistically integrated with the Al Qaeda-linked ISIS organisation, which the Western governments have mounted an international military coalition to carry out air strikes against. That US-led coalition includes Australia, which in recent months has sent fighter jets and up to 600 troops to join in air strikes against ISIS militants in Iraq and presumably Syria as well. Yet, in stark contrast to this week’s coffee shop incident in Sydney, the Western media and governments gave relatively scant coverage to the altogether more disturbing attack in Grozny. The former incident was given global importance, whereas the Russian terror assault, with its much more fatal and significant implications, was afforded comparatively minimal Western attention. The anomalous Western media focus cannot be explained away simply as a random editorial oversight. Over the past year alone Russia has witnessed a spate of truly alarming terrorist attacks that have resulted in at least 60 violent deaths, including the Grozy firefight earlier this month.
