[Gritty]

...(ref. BBC)... attacks by right-wing vigilantes... conservative clerical establishment... conservative vigilantes...

Don't you just love it when the BBC salts it's stories with this type of rhetoric?

Students said dozens of armed Islamic vigilantes were involved in the attack on the university dormitory.

It looks as if the students have gotten it correctly, even if the BBC hasn't!

I suspect the other Western news(!) organizations such as Reuters and CNN will adopt the same rhetoric to refer to the Islamists in the same way as they refer to the Bush Administration. As far as they're concerned, they are all a bunch of "right-wing, conservative vigilantes" when they are the Bad Guys!

[alrea]

Students said dozens of armed Islamic vigilantes were involved in the attack on the university dormitory.

Welcome Iranian students to the fight for lower taxes, tort reform, smaller government and religious freedom.

[freedom9]

It was late when I posted that and I didn't even notice the rightwing context.
The BBC is a half decent news source often offering coverage that is unmentioned elsewhere but their political affiliations are mainstream media.

[freedom9]

On a further note:
I've never really paid much attention to left wing, right wing rhetoric.
I only know that until you've got your feet on the ground, you need them both. :)

[freedom9]

On a further note:
I've never really paid much attention to left wing, right wing rhetoric.
I only know that until you've got your feet on the ground, you need them both. :)