By Leszek MILLER, Leader of the Democratic left Alliance

That does a significant part of Polish media and politicians call the murderers responsible for bloody attacks in Russia? They are not referred to as bandits or terrorists, far from it, but as fighters, fundamentalists, separatists, extremists, insurgents or Caucasian Muslims. Informacyjna Agencja Radiowa, the Polish public radio news agency, calls Doku Umarov, the man responsible for the Nevsky Express train attack which killed 26 people, simply a “Chechen separatist leader.” The Polish Press Agency (PAP) referred to one participant in the Kabardino-Balkaria attack, which claimed more than a hundred innocent victims as an “Islamic militant.”

There is no shortage of individuals in Poland with an ambiguous attitude to terrorism. They are lenient towards the bandits who operate in Russia but harsh on murderous thugs in other parts of the world. This disgraceful practice follows every attack, including the attack several days ago in the Moscow metro. Yet

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