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The sweeping and ill-informed rhetorical excesses about ?civilizational?, ?epochal?, ?global? changes and ?world-historical? century-long projections are at best based on anecdotal selective data, and at worst vacuous emotive ejaculations designed to give prominence to personal opinions.

The monstrous deliberate slaughter of over 330 parents and children in the Beslan school gymnasium by Chechen terrorists is not as the BBC claims a ?tragedy? ? but a vicious criminal act.