Why do terrorists do terrorism?

Answer 1

There are many different types of terrorists, all with different reasons for bringing about their terror. However, if you are referring to the Muslim extremists, they interpret the Quran and do as they think the Quran tells them to.

Answer 2

Terrorism is commonly considered a coercive political strategy employed to manipulate abroader audience, enraptured by the Horror of the terrorist's dramatic acts of violence.

What is needed in order to answer the question of why the U.S. is targeted is a close examination of particular campaigns of terrorism, in the context of a comparison of terrorism against the United States with terrorism against other targets. Not all groups use international terrorism, and of those that do, not all target the United States.

Some nonstate actors use terrorism exclusively in a domestic context; they do not ordinarily attack foreign targets or act outside national bundaries. Others operate internationally or transnationally but do not attack American targets. Some groups begin at the domestic level and move to the international level, while others act internationally from the outset.

Some groups ttack American targets but then abandon the strategy. To date there has been no systematic analysis of why terrorism would take different paths. This paper attempts to advance the premise that anti-American terrorism is the result of a spillover of civil conflict, that it is a deliberate strategy of nonstate actors who expect to benefit by attacking American interests, and that reasons for targeting the United States share common attributes over time and across groups.

Answer 3

For the same reason the military and governments use violence - to achieve their objectives.

Answer 4

how do terrorist justify their actions?