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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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Islam is a religion of peace.
Extremist Islam is not a religion of peace.
There is a difference between Islam and Extremist Islam.
Extremist Islam are followed by Islamic terrorists.
Those who choose the path of Extremist Islam will claim that they are following true Islam, when in fact they are not.
You should not see a whole religion as terrorists just because a faction of followers choose the path of terrorism.
IRA terrorists are Catholics. But nobody calls the Catholics "terrorists". So what right do we have to call all Muslims "terrorists"? - None.
What do you set the transponder to when a plane is hijacked?
In an aircraft hijacking scenario, the transponder should be set to 7500
How do terrorists select their targets?
They usually select either 'weak' targets (that are easy to damage) - or 'sensitive' targets (those that will get the most publicity).
Is islam a terrorist religion?
No. The religious structure of Islam is not designed to promote terrorism. Most Muslims behave indistinguishably from Non-Muslims on most key life-issues, such as work relationships, education, sports affiliations, socializing, etc.
That being said, the doctrines of Islam, particularly the holy Islamic struggle of Jihad, make Islam much more malleable to supporting terrorism and violence against civilians than most other religions. (This is not to say that Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. cannot be molded this way (and each has been), but it takes more doctrinal meddling.) Islam also is not a unity which allows Muslim terrorist organizations tell their membership that the fight in which they are engaged is properly guided and anyone who opposes them is not properly guided.
Not at this present time, it is merely one of the warning signs the federal government has said show increased probability of a "terrorist" if you look at all of the potential warning signs the federal government has listed as being possible terrorist indicators, nearly half of the country could be considered likely terrorists.
What were the goals of 9-11 hijackers?
The goals of the September 11 attacks from Al Qaeda's perspective were to:
- Humiliate the U.S. government
- Psychologically arouse its population
- Instill terror in all to bring about ideological change (terrorism)
- Give a slap in the face to capitalism by taking down a major symbol of it (world trade centers)
- Economically denting the U.S.
In that respect Americans have been absorbed in fear and bigotry/hate towards the "others" (Muslims) rise of security, loss of freedom (try traveling the skies!)
Last but certainly not least: Provocation of an enduring war that will lead to the United States' financial deterioration and military spending over its own homeless, bankrupt citizens who need tax dollars.
What type of terrorists are the Earth Liberation Front?
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is an ideological terrorist group. More specifically, it is an eco-terrorist group.
The ELF holds no religious agenda, supports no government, and has little interest in financial gain. Instead, the ELF website states that the organization has three objectives:
First, inflict economic damage on those harming the environment.
Second, educate the public on environmental degradation.
Third, avoid harming all life--human and animal.
These objectives are all ideological and thus place the ELF in the category of ideological terrorism. The ELF, however, remains motivated by biocentrism and deep ecology. In essence, these beliefs contend that humans and animals both have intrinsic value; neither is superior. Additionally, humans should rollback industrialization and allow the earth to return to its natural pristine state. These concepts plus the ELF's focus on the environment lead to the eco-terrorist label.
See, Stefan Leader and Peter Probst, "The Earth Liberation Front and Environmental Terrorism," Terrorism and Political Violence 15, no. 4 (2003): 37-58.
Change cs 1.6 terrorists win sound?
The song has to be WAV type and as far as i know it needs to be 6 seconds long
What terrorist group started a political party?
Many terrorist groups around the world throughout history have gone into politics. Many countries are born out of wars, with opposing sides moving into politics once the fighting is over. Many terrorist groups are connected to political parties while still involved in terrorism, and so having a political wing and a military wing. The political wing may negotiate and influence the military wing to give up their campaigns. A revolution can occur in a country, and once the revolution is over, the revolutionaries start to run the country and so enter politics. Many now well established and respected democratic political parties around the world were at one time involved in violence. Taking all those things into consideration, there are many potential answers for your question.
Who would most likely argue to remove the terrorist label from Hamas?
Someone who believes that Hamas is defending the right of Palestine to exist
What has the UN been doing to keep terrorists from acquiring mass destruction weapons?
The United Nations has not done a lot to keep terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, but to be entirely fair to the United Nations, this is not really its mandate. Taking active measures on the ground could easily be seen as a violation of national sovereignty, which is expressly preserved in the UN charter. The UN can facilitate negotiations and has passed several resolutions on the issues of nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons and several resolutions on terrorism. However, since all of the countries with veto power in the UN Security Council (US, UK, France, China, and Russia) all possess these weapons and all support various paramilitaries and militias around the world (which could be considered terrorist groups), resolutions with a binding effect are never passed. As a result, most of the negotiations that have actively sought to restrict access of terrorist groups to weapons of mass destruction have taken place outside of the United Nations.
Organizations like the International Atomic Energy Agency are responsible for regulating nuclear power. In countries which have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (most countries in the world), the IAEA has the power to conduct inspections and make sure weapons are secure. The US has also led efforts in former Soviet States like Ukraine and in South Asian nuclear powers like Pakistan to secure their nuclear weapons and prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists. There have been Russian-led initiatives in Central Asia to return Kazakh weapons stockpiles to Russia in exchange for badly-needed loans and government funds. Chemical and biological weapons are already banned in warfare by the Geneva Conventions and while the UNSC Veto Powers have these weapons, they are kept under high levels of protection. Countries like Syria, which were more wont to use these weapons are the subject of intense negotiations between the US and Russia as to how to avoid the use of these chemical weapons. Several negotiations have recently taken place on this particular issue between Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry with the international pressure of the UN being used to press for the negotiations.
Why is hard to stop terrorism?
It is hard because the terrorists won't listen and thay are not nice at all. Lets just say the terrorists are dumb, stubborn people.
What is DoD terrorism threat level Moderate mean?
indicates terrorists are present but there is no known anti-U.S. activity
What does financial terrorism mean?
It means the big companies getting lots of money from ordinary persons. By decree, by the privately owned Federal Reserve, zero interest rates are here to stay. You do not get to borrow at those rates, only the member banks do. In the latest currency swap (loan) from the Fed to the ECB, European Central Bank, as we noted in previous issues over the last two months, that Europe has been forced to join the Anglo-American system. The system of zero interest rates and the continual creation of money and credit. Due to the Fed's ability to create endless supplies of money and credit it eventually took over the control of ECB and European monetary policy. These policies starkly point out the zero interest rates and monetary policy of endless money creation is the path to be taken probably by all in the system to lesser or greater degrees. That means no savings and that leaves speculation and the purchase of gold and silver related assets.
"In one year, the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed…The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the International Bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War." - Benjamin Franklin
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson
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"The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will… They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres."- Governor Morris author Constitution of the United States
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"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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"It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank are held by foreigners… is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country?… Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence… would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy. If government would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favour alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles." - Andrew Jackson
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Why is some terrorism carried out soft targets as opposed to military or political ones?
Easier to attack, like a school or shopping center, and more outrage since civilians are'nt combatents.
What type of terrorism was the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103?
What is probably the best description of the Lockerbie Bombing is that it was an act of retaliation by Libya for a number of attacks against Libyan military aircraft and ships by the US. Libya "artifically extended" its coastal territorial waters to include all of the Gulf of Sidra, and then attempted to "claim" the waters by confronting US military planes and naval ships. Lybia was clearly overmatched, and this resulted in a number of incidents where Libyan aircraft or naval craft were lost to US fire. A link can be found below.
Does the Koran condone terrorism?
Some say that it is proven fact that the Quran teaches Muslims to hate non Muslims.
This is not the truth. The Koran teaches love for Allah and all his people, not hate or terrorism.
See the related links below for more information.
Because if they officially noticed it, then people would expect them to do something. As you are well aware, politicians are in their most comfortable position, when they talk a lot, and then do nothing.(I'm not slamming the lady senator. All politicians are pretty much lyin,stealing,backstabbin SOB's.) Probably because they are NOT. This concept which you right-wingers hatched has to be the stupidest one thing anyone ever came up with. I want you to consider the logistics here. If you were a terrorist and you wanted to sneak into the United States, would you attempt to cross Lake Ontario (which is, incidentally, patrolled by the Coast Guard and monitored by radar) or would you go to an unpopulated place along the border and just drive across?
What does the phrase state-sponsored terrorism imply?
Terrorism against a country or group of people that is funded by a national government in some way.
How did the IRA get bombs into the UK?
They drove them in, they brought them in by boat. They brought parts in and assembled them there. They built them from materials that were already there. Security was not as tight as international security is nowadays, so it would have been a bit easier. Many were intercepted though.
Are educated more involved in terrorism?
In many cases No. Most people who indulge in terrorism are uneducated youth from many oppressed societies who are made to believe that terrorism is the solution to their problem. Most terrorist factions pick up children from poverty stricken communities and train them up as terrorists.
Problems with the Term Islamophobia
"Islamophobia" really has no definition and can be easily applied to any criticism of Islam or of Muslim practices, even if the words are spoken by Muslims. Islamophobia, therefore encompasses a wide variety of concepts like:
- Anti-Muslim Bigotry: The belief that Muslims as people are wicked or problematic. This is the Muslim rough equivalent to Anti-Semitism for Jews.
- Anti-Islamicism: The belief that the ideology and beliefs of Islam as a religious construction and lifestyle manifesto promote wrong-doing or are seriously problematic to a multicultural society.
- Anti-Islamism: The belief that Islam as politically manifest is capable of determining actual laws promotes inequality, injustice, and moral incorrectness.
Criticism
People accused of being Islamophobic are often claimed to be "extreme" and to use violent and racist comments against Muslims. (Admittedly, it is unclear what could be racist about Anti-Muslim statements since Islam prides itself on being for all races and all peoples, but this term is used instead of "religionist" or "bigot".) This makes it very easy for Muslims and Muslim apologists to claim that any incendiary remark, whether factual or farce is "racist" and therefore wrong without actually considering the point of view.
Additionally, the use of the term "phobia" implies that the fear of Muslims, Islam, or Islamism, is entirely irrational, just like the fear of the number 13 or the fear of heights. This is absurd since, unlike the number 13 or the heights, Muslims actually do things. Whether as a group they do more good or ill is certainly worth a discussion, but this moves the "fear" from being irrational (decided without evidence) to rational (decided with evidence). It would therefore, not be "phobia" but a conclusion, in the same way that all other hatreds are conclusions.
Discussion of the History of Anti-Muslim Bigotry:
Anti-Muslim Bigotry, began in the Middle Ages and was a much more visceral religious and political hatred of Islam than what we see today. There was a real fear in Europe that the OMINOUS THEY were going to take over. Islam, therefore, became the boogeyman and regardless of what Islam actually represents (or represented at that time) it was painted with colors of that immeasurable fear. Islam was a major world power for much of the Middle Ages. Umayyad Spain fought against three proto-Spanish States. Abbassid coins have been found as far away as Sweden. Ottoman armies besieged Vienna, Austria. It was not wholly inconceivable that the "European Way of Life" would come under direct threat. (This was similar to the perspective of the antebellum U.S. South.)
Hatred of Muslims shifted in tone and character during the Enlightenment Period. John Adams once wrote in a Treaty with the Barbary States (of North Africa) that "America being free of religion has no quarrel with Musselmen". Islamic States were no longer threatening and much of the majority-Muslim areas of the world were subsequently colonized by European powers. Since World War II, there has been a massive immigration of Muslims into Europe, once again leading to many Europeans feeling like they are being invaded by a political force. This rekindled the Middle Age symbols but in an entirely new light.
