BBC Journalist Looks Into the Eyes of Gunmen -- And Sees the Light

One of the BBC's correspondents, Frank Gardner, has been speaking about his ordeal at the hands of the Islamofascists who shot him and left him for dead last June:

'Probably the whole attack took less than ten minutes, maybe even less than five, but I remember every single thing. I looked into the face of the gunman who shot me.
I saw in the faces of the gunmen absolute hatred; they had pressed the button of violence and nothing I tried to say to them in Arabic was going to dissuade them.
As far as they were concerned I was a heathen, a western infidel who had come into their area and this was an opportunity to execute a westerner.'

Oh dear. What has gone wrong with this man? Shouldn't he be trying to explain how the Islamonazis are just misunderstood? And what's this about 'gunmen'? Er ... Shouldn't read 'insurgents'? Or maybe 'freedom fighters'? And why doesn't Palestine get a mention? Shouldn't Gardner be explaining to his readers that the 'underlying causes of this violence lie in the continuing plight of the Palestinian people'?
Still, Gardner's been through a terrible ordeal, so we'll forgive his lapses. Perhaps he doesn't have his BBC style book handy in the spinal injuries unit. Or perhaps, just perhaps, terrorism looks a little different when you're on the receiving end of it.

In any event, Gardner's more realistic appraisal of Islamic terrorism does answer a question that's been niggling at us for quite some time:
'Just what does it take,' we've often asked, 'to get a BBC journalist to report honestly about the Middle East?'
Well, now we know. Someone has to shoot him.