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Terrorism
Terrorism includes acts of violence to spread a political or ideological message and create a state of terror among people. al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, is the most well known terrorist group.
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Environmental terrorism is the unlawful destruction of resources in order to deprive others of its use.
What is the relationship between identity and terrorism?
There is none.
Knowing the identity of someone won't ascertain their mental attitude.
It is society that creates terrorist?
Yes.... It is the society who creates a terrorist.
It can be on the basis of caste, creed or religion
What did the IRA want to change?
The PIRA or Provisional Irish Republican Army did not fight solely on religious grounds, although that was a factor, but initially to defend the catholic community from attacks by Loyalists, the Police and State-sponsored Paramilitaries. It would be incorrect to compare the IRA (a known terrorist organization) to other terror organizations such as Al Qaeda (also a known terrorist organization) because The latter oppressed whereas the former sought to liberate. Although as time went on, the IRA acted less as liberators, and more as terrorist organization.
There is a lot more to this subject. Sufficeth to say that the PIRA's stated goal was self-rule of the area they claimed as theirs, mostly in Northern Eire, and the creation of a Catholic state.
A terrorist that uses or threatens to use computers to harm others, instead of bombs, guns, etc. Usually their attacks are via the Internet.
911 was chosen specifically because it was just a target date, as it worked well for the leader of Al-Qaida. This date was the closest possible chance of suprise.
Answer 1
Islam is never a violent religion. Islam calls for peace and justice and good morals. If Islam calls for defending your lands and properties (called military Jihad) it does not mean violence. If Islam calls Muslims to struggle within themselves to be in the right path of God and not to commit sins, it does not mean violence, Islam calls for peace and tolerance and forgiveness.
Western media and politicians propagate false ideas about Islam to have control over Muslim countries and to resist the Islam religion propagation through convert of non Muslims to Islam.
Answer 2
Let me make it clear that the overwhelming majority of Muslims and the majority of Islamic leaders do not promote violence. However, this question is not asking about those people, but for leaders and organizations who are devout Muslims and who do advocate for violence. Some examples include:
- Ayatollah Khamanei who advocated for violence against Iranian Mossavi Protesters across Iran and demands the mass slaughter of Jews in Israel.
- Ayatollah Khomeini who called the Iran-Iraq War a "holy mission" for Muslims to devote themselves. (Note: he could have easily justified his war on political grounds, but chose not to, appealing to his religious faith.)
- The Taliban repressed women and brutally tortured their opponents, believing that they had the right to implement the harshest forms of human indecency because of their religion.
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, an Iraqi Ayatollah claimed that suicide bombers that kill civilians are blessed by God and therefore do not need an Imam to bless their errand.
- The Saudi chief of Islamic Affairs (Sheikh Saleh Al-Sheikh) also claimed that suicide bombers were martyrs for God's causes.
- Anjem Choudary, leader of the now-banned British Islamist organization Al-Muhajiroon, claimed it is an "obligation upon Muslims everywhere to support the Jihad against those who fight Muslims anywhere in the world or who occupy Muslim land".
When will President Obama pardon Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
Never. There is NO evidence the president would pardon a terrorist, nor has any president of any party pardoned a terrorist, as far as I know.
What is the arabic word for suicide bomber?
There is no proper term for "suicide bomber" in Arabic. Usually, people just refer to the person as a "suicidal one" - "Entehaari" (أنتحاري) or a "martyr" - Shaahed (شاهد).
However, there are many terms for a "suicide bombing", so most Arabs will say something like "the man who committed/took part in a suicide bombing". Such words for a suicide bombing include: 3amaliya tafajiria (عملية تفجيرية) or Bombing Operation, 3amaliya entehaariya (عملية أنتحارية) or Suicide Operation, 3amaliya estashaahediya (عملية استشهادية) or Martyrdom Operation, and 3amaliya 3askariya (عملية عسكرية) or Militant Operation.
Percentage of Muslims
First, we need to take a moment and realize that Islamic terrorism is a very small percentage of the Muslim population, just as terrorists in general are a minimal part of the population. However, just because terrorists make up less than 1% of Muslims (it is estimated that there are roughly 300,000 Jihadists in the world out of 1.6 billion Muslims), this number is still significantly larger than other groups who perform terrorism and are responsible for an inordinate share of casualties. In the last ten years, over 85% of terrorist incidents and 85% terrorist-related fatalities were perpetrated by Muslims. This is far more than either the Jews or the Christians.
It is the same way that criminals are usually less than 1% of the population of a given country, but police are still needed to prevent more crime. Pretending that crime does not exist because 99% of people are not criminals is not a healthy approach.
Answer
As to the question today of why Muslims are more violent per capita than Jews or Christians, even where the Qur'an is only as violent if not less violent than the Old Testament, there are three major reasons for this:
1) Religious Moderation through the Enlightenment and Disempowerment
Both Judaism and Christianity have had documents that have moderated or delimited the violent passages in the Old Testament.
In the case of Judaism, the Mishnah, Talmud, and other books of Jewish Religious Jurisprudence have often made the more violent aspects of the Old Testament completely unenforceable. While the possibility of the return to more violent laws is possible in a Messianic Age, the Jews do not currently see it to be religiously proper to stone children to death for disobedience to their parents.
In the case of Christianity, the New Testament served as a watershed moment, effectively splitting the laws of the Old Testament into ceremonial laws, the judicial laws, and the moral laws. Ceremonial Laws are the laws concerning sacrificial rituals and holidays and judicial laws concern the particular punishments meted out for sinful behavior. Christian theologians argued that the ceremonial and judicial laws are no longer valid because Jesus was himself the fulfillment of the law and, therefore, these ways of getting to God were unnecessary. As a result, the moral law was the only law that survived.
Regardless of these steps, which pushed both Judaism and Christianity in the right direction, what further impelled religious moderation was the Enlightenment and the forcing of religion out of power. In a new, non-governmental position, religions became more about morality and less about forced conformity. As a result, Judaism and Christianity mellowed further.
2) Piety: Simply put, the average Muslim is much more religious than the average Jew or the average Christian. This does not mean that there are not millions of pious Jews and Christians, but rather that when you have a larger pool of religiously observant people and it comes from a religion whose violent beliefs were not moderated, you have a higher likelihood of generating violence.
3) Political Issues: In most of the Jewish and Christian World, baseline domestic concerns are taken care of. Conversely, much of the Islamic World is poor and often battle-scarred. This political instability is more likely to generate violence than a politically stable environment all else equal.
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What was Anders Behring Breivik's reasoning?
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The above is a concise summary of the mindset that drives people like Breivik to commit such crimes. It is a narrowly-drawn view, one which places high value on some sort of fixed view of "purity" (whether cultural, racial, or religious), rejects change, groups people into an "us or them" mentality, disdains the possibility that their viewpoint is in any way in error (or, equally, that any other viewpoint might also be valid), and encourages the "crisis" mindset, where impending doom is inevitable without immediate drastic action.
It also tends to exhibit the idea that the person with said view is somehow "better" or "more gifted" and can see things everyone else has missed. That is, it tends to emphasize the Messiah complex, where the holder is the only one (or one of a very select few) able to truly see the problem, and is uniquely gifted with the ability to address this "problem".
The banal truth is that Breivik's reasoning was purely the age-old anti-immigrant bigotry. Nothing unique or special about him at all. Just another poor excuse for a pathetic human being.
Why does Hezbollah hate the U.S.?
Hezbollah is founded as an organization dedicated to the removal of the State of Israel. In their view, the land of Israel was stolen from the Muslims who lived there: the Palestinians. They are doing everything militarily in their power to have the State of Israel wiped off the map. The main country preventing them from doing so (aside from Israel) is the United States, which supports the Israeli government and helps to fund their defense industry.
What was the reign of terror and how did it end?
The Reign of Terror is the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilen Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.
· In July 1794, fearing for their own safety, some members of the National Convention turned on Robespierre. They demanded his arrest and execution. The Reign of Terror, the radical phase of the French Revolution, ended on July 28, 1794, when Robespierre went to the guillotine.
What is the difference between Islamism and Jihadism?
There is nothing in Islam religion called Islamism or jihadism. There is Islam and jihad. The difference between them is that Islam is a religion per Qur'an revelation by God to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the angel Gabriel (or Jibril). However, jihad is the struggle ; practiced by Muslims and one Muslims; to get life requirements, raise up families, practice good morals and religion teachings as well as struggle to defend lands, homes, families, and religion against military attacks. When Islam interferes with politics it is called political Islam. When jihad is directed ti fulfill political goals it is called political jihad. Refer to related questions below.
The world trade center attack was carried out with?
Depends on which attack you're talking about.
the 1993 attack was done with explosives.
The 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center were carried out by terrorists using airplanes. The flew the airplanes into the towers which resulted in their ultimate collapse.
No, just the opposite.
Terrorism as a political tool is a form of extortion. The idea is, if you don't do what the terrorist wants you to do (whatever that may be) then the terrorist will punish you by committing acts of terrorism. This strategy may or may not be effective, in different circumstances.
Why did the Unabomber send mail bombs?
He argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization. See related link below:
How is Hamas different than Hezbollah?
Answer 1
Hezbollah is against doctors and hospitals in the middle east because of the abuses that go on there by medical staff,forced medical treatment without the persons consent and other things that cannot be mentioned here.Hezbollah has always tried to change the unjust regeime that is Lebanon and protect the people.But Hamas is not helping the people and is working more for self gain.It has done nothing to protect the people of Gaza from Israel and there have been cases of Hamas the Government using torture in their prisons.
Answer 2
Religion: The clearest difference between Hamas and Hezbollah is that the former identifies as Sunni Islamists and the latter as Shiite Islamists. (Note: Islamist IS NOT a synonym of Muslim, it is a specific political term.) Islamic terrorist organizations tell their membership that the fight in which they are engaged is part of the holy Islamic struggle of Jihad and anyone who opposes them is not properly guided. Therefore, Muslim terrorist organizations will identify what sect of Islam they belong to and whether or not they oppose the other sects. Hamas and Hezbollah have both put out broadcasts claiming that Muslims of the other sects (Shiites for Hamas and Sunnis for Hezbollah) are Kuffar (Unbelievers) and will be punished by God for their sin.
Social Welfare: Hamas and Hezbollah exist in countries with a weak internal support structure, in many cases such as with Hezbollah and Hamas they will use their own funds to build schools, parks, hospitals, and other social services in the communities they occupy. It provides goodwill with the local inhabitants and allows them to more effectively spread whatever messages they may wish to say. Since Hamas operates in the Gaza Strip, its institutions are there. Since Hezbollah operates in Lebanon and Syria, it builds its institutions there. Contrary to Answer 1, Hezbollah actually does build hospitals and fund medicine.
Politics: Hezbollah and Hamas have actively engaged in elections with Hezbollah running in Lebanon and Hamas running in Palestine with their own political parties. If the governments formed after these elections were not desirable to these parties, they engaged in military actions to force the national government to capitulate to their desires. In the case of Hezbollah this created a violent stand-off in Beirut and in the case of Hamas, this prompted a Palestinian Civil War in Gaza and the West Bank to overthrow Fatah.
The primary reason that France was attacked is that France is part of the US-led coalition bombing Islamic State. France is also the Western country with the largest number of Muslims, so Islamic State likely attacked Paris in a gambit to help convince French Muslims to join Islamic State.
Why is terrorism a social issue?
Because terrorism makes it apparent that there is not social harmony in society. "Terrorists" have values outside of the mainstream, who do not agree with the running of the country, which can be an issue when people's opinions are not listened to. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" JFK.
Identify three ways in which terrorists typically design ieds to be detonated?
time delay, command-detonated, victim-operated
There are quite a few ways IED's are detonated. I would consider the following most common, but this is surely arguable:
- Pressure/motion.
- Direct electric Switch (like a doorbell and electricity source)
- Cell phone or RF transmission.
- Timer.
