The Sydney Morning Herald is a worthy paper.   Few people buy it now and tomorrow, even fewer.  But it can be relied on for a few things and being worthy is generally one.

The SMH finds ways to report on Musim terrorists without mentioning the word Muslim or Islam.   it also finds writers who will invent fancy new ways to imply it's actually our felt for not being nice enough to people suffering exclusion, resentment and envy.   When you suffer envy, you are left with few choices but to learn how to make a big bomb then set it off as therapy.

Lionel Shriver us today's SMH columnist.   She was baptised Margaret Ann Shriver but at 15 she felt that a male name like Lionel was more descriptive of the inner Margaret Ann - so she's Lionel.  She's also a journalist and author and she's spoken at the Sydney Writers' Festival.  

Here's a link to her article in full.     It starts off sensibly, don't let the terrorists win by changing our lifestyles etc - then down delusion apologist alley we go

....we've met enough of these miscreants by now to be pretty sure, on the  deepest level, what powers these people. Whether the killers are foreign or  domestic, the constellation of underlying emotions is always the same:  resentment, grievance, envy, mean-spiritedness and contempt. Doubtless,  delusions of superiority.

It cannot be an accident that the Boston Marathon is an occasion of  festivity, of unity, of community - because to two disgruntled young men it  represented a party where  they did not feel invited.

(How telling that the younger was flunking in university; that the older was  also floundering, after having failed to make the US Olympic boxing team.)

That sense of having been left out, and a subsequent vengefulness, is nothing  new, and traces back to fairytales such as Sleeping Beauty, in which  the evil fairy who wasn't asked to the christening crashes the affair anyway in  order to curse the crib. This urge to annihilate whatever seems to elude or  exclude you is not the inclination of terrorists alone; it is not only a problem  for foreigners or disaffected outliers beyond our ken. It's all over the web.  Take a look at the shrill, venomous threads that run after articles just like  this one. Take a look at the rancid blogs and vile tweets.

Terrorism is merely a physical manifestation of the spleen that contaminates  nearly all public conversation these days. The internet is awash in bile,  sometimes so acidic that it drives teenagers to suicide. Vandals on the  sidelines sneer at anyone foolish enough to  say something, under the misguided  impression that demolition is a form of creativity. Hence packing  pressure  cookers full of nails, ball bearings and explosive and crafting an especially  vicious, below-the belt comment on a website seem to entail their own admirable  flair and daring.

I wish I could find those bombs at the Boston Marathon baffling - alien,  horrifyingly incomprehensible. However, the same drive to tear apart whatever  you can't be part of, the same loathing and scorn, runs in a thick seam not only  through our culture  but, I fear, through the veins of our very species.

I thought what powered Muslim terrorists was the Koran and a promise of 75 virgins when you deliver your freshly martyred soul tp God, who by the way is great.

I thought Muslim terrorists were powered by the demented repetition of their prophet Mohammed's exhortations to constant Jihad and by the rewards for killing kaffirs and pigs in men's clothing AKA Jews - you've only to search in Youtube, there are plenty of sermons there like the firebrand sessions with Sheik Feiz Mahommed.    Feiz Mahommed has now engaged the PR firm of Attorney, General and Dufus to represent him, as you'll see in the following video clip designed to show what a great guy the Sheik is and how well connected to the Aussie Muslim Beat is our AG.

 To the lefty hater of the West, terrorism is just an irritant (Waleed Aly in the SMH last week) - or it's "merely" the physical manifestation of the "spleen" and angry thoughts that are expressed in public conversations nowadays.  Merely.

Why does Fairfax dredge up convoluted fantasy land rubbish like that?  And one last word from Lionel's article today.   Lionel quotes the US President, himself a past master of apologising for us being us - while not mentioning the Muslim or Islamist words unless connecting them with great praise for their unterrorlike ways.

Obama stuck to the script and spoke of "The small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build'' in an interfaith ''service of healing'' on Thursday last.  The President might have succeeded in not saying aything that cold be interpreted as upsetting to Muslims, but he's so far off the money it's tragic.A bloke reciting the Koran or yelling Allah uh Akbhar as he detonates does not identify as a small stunted idividual.   He is raised to believe that he is a member of the great, true religion, a huge and powerful movement that represents the one true way for life on earth.

Good Muslim people don't need world leaders, writers or newspapers apologising to them when Muslim terrorists kill.  They need honesty about the Islamist intent and its Jihad on kaffirs like us.   And more than anything, Muslim people desperately need a period of Enlightenment and Reformation in their church and the removal of the religious connections with civil/criminal law and the other arms of the state.

I put a few thoughts down onto an Audioboo last night between reeling in a good catch of whiting on a beautiful Botany Bay.  Love to know your thoughts