Word: denialism
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That is the dangerous denial from which mainstream Muslims need to emerge. While our spokesmen assure us that Islam is an innocent bystander in today's terrorism, those who commit terrorist acts often tell us otherwise. Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, left behind a note asserting that "it is enough for us to know that the Koran's verses are the words of the Creator of the Earth and all the planets." Atta highlighted the Koran's description of heaven. In 2004 the executioners of Nick Berg, an American contractor in Iraq, alluded on tape...
...Muslims in the town of Srebrenica - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. And although the anniversary finds most of Serbia, in whose name it was committed, still avoiding a true accounting of was perpetrated at Srebrenica and by whom, there are encouraging signs that the fa?ade of denial may have suffered irreparable cracks...
...military leader who was the chief architect of the war crime at Srebrenica, remains at large - presumed to be hiding in Serbia, under the protection of elements of the military and police who see him as a war hero. Unfortunately, millions of Serbs share this view, remaining in dogged denial over the deeds of the fugitive general and, even more importantly, over Serbia's own role in the Bosnian...
...bubble of Serb denial was ruptured last month by the release of a video clip presented as evidence by the prosecution at Milosevic's trial. On that tape, shown on TV in Serbia, viewers saw a group of soldiers from Serbia - all of them identified as members of Serbian special police unit known as Scorpions - executing six starved Muslim prisoners in cold blood...
...while, it looked as if the shock triggered by the tape would end the denial. Political leaders, including President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, voiced their outrage, and several members of the Scorpions were arrested. Serbia's parliament prepared a declaration condemning the Srebrenica massacre, and for the first time, the government seemed sincere when it declared that Ratko Mladic would be tracked down and arrested before the Srebrenica commemoration...