Comments on: Comic Relief: Terror Org Logos!

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:55:36 +0000

I noticed a good many years ago that Israeli, hebrew-language news had dropped the abstract termination, the “ism” – they simply talk about “hamilhama neged haterror” – “the war against terror”. This usage has spread to the USA and UK, gradually. This term is psychologically preferable to “terrorism”, since a war against an emotion cannot be won.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:35:58 +0000

I think so-called terrorist groups’ logos share similarities just like nations’ flags and coats of arms. That is, they are generally very similar (with notable exceptions such as the flag of Nepal).

In my opinion, those “terrorist” logos (like Hizballah’s and the other Lebanese and Palestian one-gun logos) are much stronger and more exciting (=better propaganda) than the dreary AIPAC or OPEC logos. I actually printed my own Hizballah logo shirt and everyone thought it was cool, even if they disagreed politically with it (I wouldn’t dare wear it today, I would probably go to jail).

Just like blaxploitation and communist fashion (such as Che), and Chinese/Japanese kanji tattoos became fashionable, other cultures’ design/artistic standards are always interesting to us.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:27:32 +0000

I think so-called terrorist groups' logos are similar to nations' flags and coats of arms. That is, they are generally very similar (with notable exceptions such as the flag of Nepal) In my opinion, those "terrorist" logos (like Hizballah's and the other Lebanese and Palestian one-gun logos) are much more exciting than the dreary AIPAC or OPEC logos.