A War of Language

Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language Fred Halliday IB Tauris  2010 On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers, members of a fringe militant Islamist group, Al-Qaeda, launched the most significant attack on the United States since the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941.The eminent scholar of international relations and the Middle East, Fred Halliday, writing shortly after the attacks described this experience as “two...

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