Sunday Poem: Terror Or No?

 

Someone please figure out

whether the Ottawa shooter

was a terrorist

or merely insane.

 

A disturbed loner

acting on the whim of the moment

isn’t a terrorist;

we should apologize

for calling him that.

 

But

if his rampage was carefully planned

– rooted in ideology –

then insane he wasn’t;

just doing the things

terrorists normally do.

 

By Shai Ben-Shalom

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