Terrorism

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The war on terrorism began in the U.S. The 9/11 attack officially marked the beginning of the war in Afghanistan and what would later spread to nearby countries attaining the name War on Terrorism because it was no longer against Afghanistan alone, but terrorism in general.

Supply chain, recruiting, funding, and people to organize and execute.

Hezbollah is located all over Lebanon, once a jewel of the Middle East, now a devastated wasteland thanks to Hezbollah.

No, terrorists absolutely are not cool. They pose a threat to our country. In fact, we have a zero tolerance policy against anyone who is affiliated with terrorism in the United States.

Because he has long hair, and has finger-nail-polish, and looks as if he has mascara, or so they say. But sorry to bust their bubbles, but he is not gay.

Addressing Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons would actually be counterproductive when dealing with terrorism. Nuclear weapons are effective as a deterrent against state-actors because a state-actor cares about the fate of civilians under its purview. Terrorists have no corresponding care, so the destruction of tens or hundreds of thousands of people (mostly civilians) with a nuclear weapon would not only be a war-crime, it would anger possible allies in the region. Additionally, terrorists are typically not concentrated in one area for a long period of time, which is necessary for a nuclear weapon to be of any tactical use. Any solution to fighting Islamist or Jihadist terrorism would necessarily avoid using nuclear weapons for these reasons.

On Islamism and Jihadism
Instead a comprehensive approach must be taken to destroy Islamist and Jihadist Terrorism. Let us first clarify our terms. Contrary to popular confusion, Islamism is not a religion; Islam is the religion and Jihad is a religious concept within Islam. Islamism and Jihadism, however, are political ideologies whose goal is to bring the religious tenets of Islam into the daily functioning of a government and its laws. Jihadism is a form of Islamism that not only wishes a particularly repressive version of Islamic Law to be instituted, but believes that violence in defense of the faith is the preferred way to do this. Jihadism, like Islamism, is a political ideology rooted in Islamic religious concepts, but distorted. The distortion here is that there are many ways to advocate on behalf of Islam and the choice to exclusively use violence is a misinterpretation of the doctrine. While it is only a minority (between 10-20%) of Muslims who are Islamists and a far smaller number (<3%) who are Jihadists, almost all Islamists and Jihadists are Muslims.

Islamism and Jihadism are both modern political theories, barely more than 100 years old and while there may be some debate about whether all forms of Islamism should be opposed, there is no real disagreement outside of Islamist circles that Jihadism should be opposed. Islamism is in direct opposition to the concepts of secularism, equality before the law, and freedom of speech. Jihadism is in direct opposition of peaceful and mutual cooperation between nations.

Methods to Go About Fighting Islamism and Jihadism
Jihadist movements that actually control territory, like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), can only really be dealt with militarily and to liberate the people under their control. However, taking direct violent action against Jihadists in areas that they do not control, such using drone strikes in Pakistan, has been shown to not only be ineffective at curbing Islamism, but actually lends credence to arguments put forward by Islamists to Non-Islamist Muslims that the only way to preserve their way of life is to join the fight against the West and its values. As a result, taking direct violent action in areas not controlled by Jihadists should be avoided.

Non-Muslim Contributions
Unfortunately, the real opposition to Islamism needs to come from Non-Islamist Muslims, either those who believe in secularism and/or basic human rights and democracy. However, Non-Muslims can take some actions in this regard.

1) Awareness: Raise Awareness about Islamism and its distinct political and apartheid character. When people are informed, they can politically mobilize. Additionally, make it clear to government leaders that excising the word "Islam" and the relevant parts of Islamic theology that undergird Islamism from official counter-terrorism manuals and courses is to the detriment of the citizens.

2) Liberal Islam: Promote, within Islam, any reformers like Tawfik Hamid, Maajid Nawaz, Irshad Manji, Tarek Fatah, etc. who could create a viable non-politically oriented Islam so that there is another path for Muslims. Also support individuals like Mustafa Akyol who promote an Islamic defense of secularism. These voices need to be able to sway more people to the idea that true Islam does not promote Islamism.

3) Political Correctness: Help breach the requirements that speech be "tolerant" of different groups in society so that we can actually have discussions about the problematic entities (Islamism among others) in society, without worrying about offending people.

4) Human Rights Enforcement:Create nationwide and worldwide coalitions of people who defend the validity of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights that can actively take a political and military stand to oppose the rising tide of jihads and jihadism.

5) Local Law Enforcement: In a number of Western countries there are already laws on the books that outlaw vile practices associated with Islam, such as female genital mutilation. The non-enforcement of these laws selectively on Muslims helps enforce the Islamist narrative that Muslims should have superior privileges over Non-Muslims. As a result, enforcement is key. Locations that the police choose not to enforce the law in for fear of being seen as racist must have the laws enforced there.

6) Hate Speech Laws: Enforce hate speech laws repeatedly on Imams who actually say vile and hateful statements (such as more radical Imams and Islamist political parties like Hizb at-Tahrir and al-Muhajirun) and not against those who simply point out that such things are being said by the former.

Muslim Contributions
Within the Muslim Community, especially in the West, some really important concrete steps that they can take to help stem the tide of Islamism include:

1) Local Islamic Seminaries: One of the major problems for Western Muslims who are generally more liberal in their attitudes than their brothers and sisters in the Islamic World is that they end up going to mosques headed by Imams that went to Saudi Arabia for their education. This creates a mosque leadership that is more Islamist and radical relative to the Western Muslim population. Instead, develop a more liberal Western Islamic Seminary that can infuse the Islam of their students with more "liberal Western-ness" and more effectively protect the rights of all people. Tarek Fatah has discussed this problem as well, particularly in the Canadian context.

2) Protest Against Islamism: When protests arise concerning "Anti-Islamic" actions, Muslims should together for a counter-protest of "not-in-our-name" to the dominant pro-Islam protest group. While the Twitter campaigns are nice, actually marching in the street sends a more potent message. For example, somebody publishes an "Anti-Islamic" cartoon, advocate on behalf of the freedoms of the cartoonist regardless of the possible alienation of other Muslims. While doing so, the Muslims should hold signs saying "As Muslims we support the Freedom of Speech", etc. to clarify their stand. Maajid Nawaz has done similarly.

3) Debate with Other Muslims, Especially Islamists:Muslims should spend more time debating with other Muslims about how peaceful Islam should be and argue against wars and Islamism. Muslims should follow Mustafa Akyol's example and tell Muslims how Shari'a is worth more as a personal obligation than a national mandate. Muslims should discuss how they should fight for the civil rights of Non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries. They should tell each other to stop blaming the "Imperialists", "Zionists", "Americans", etc. for their problems and actually examine the problems with their own societies.

4) Muslims should Demand Police Protection: Muslims should join individuals who wish to impose harsher criminalization of honor killings in order to safeguard women's rights. They should support allowing the police to learn about these particular customs that are particular to Islamic communities as opposed to its current taboo as "religious bias". Muslims should want the governments of the countries they live in to protect their families, not be concerned about how these horrible effects may "shame" the community.

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contrary to popular belief SEALs are nothing compared to these two

What do you mean by distinctive? Is that the word you meant?

There different long term effects that Islamic Fundamentalism had in most parts of the world. This included governments, education and world view among others.

There is no such thing as Islamic terrorism, it is a made up term. Islam and terrorism are two separate things. If you are a terrorist, you can't be a Muslim because Islam doesn't allow terrorism. So as the term Islamic terrorism doesn't exist, nothing caused it. Terrorism as a term exists on its own and its caused by greed, power and wanting to degrade another country or religion.

It is very amazing that when Muslims resisting occupants of their lands they are called by media and westerners Muslim terrorists. However, when non Muslims commit massacres against Muslims, those non Muslims are called defending themselves. Recall the massacres happened to Muslims in Bosnia, in Lebanon, in Palestine, in Chechen, ... . I doubt that you can find one single example of a massacre done by Muslims to non Muslims. Think deliberately and fairly who are the real terrorists in this world.

He's a hacker. Hijacked a Pakistan based bank's servers in 2004 and took over orkut in 2005 depriving hundreds of people of their community and profile ownerships.

Barack Obama says that the Gulf oil spill was like 9-11 but it was not a terrorist attack. The biggest terrorism attack in the USA was the Oklamoha bombing. The Oklahoma City bombing was a bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 by Timothy McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer who detonated an explosive-filled truck parked in front of the building. McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, had assisted in the bomb preparation. This terror attack killed 168 people.

That they are misguided, mis-targeted and ineffective.

• Introduction
• What Is Terrorism
• Islam’s Response To Terrorism:
• Causes Of Terrorism:
1. Internal Causes
a) Socio-Economic Causes
i) Injustice:
ii) Illiteracy:
iii) Poverty And Unemployment:
iv) Food Insecurity:
v) Dissatisfaction:
b) Political Causes:
i) Non-Democratic Set-Up:
ii) Improper Government Set-Up
iii) Absence Of Law And Failure Of Law Enforcement Agencies:
iv) Influx Of Refugees, Weaponisation And Talbanisation:
c) Religious Causes:
i) Role Of Madrassahs:
ii) Religious Intolerance:
2. External Causes
a) Afghan War: 1979
b) Iranian Revolution:
c) War On Terrorism: 9/11
• Factors Boosting Terrorism:
a) Anti-Terrorism Campaign And Drone Strikes:
b) Negligence Of Government:
c) Persecution Of Innocent Muslims In Kashmir And Palestine:
• Steps Taken By Pakistan:
a) Ban On Terrorist Organisation
b) Operation Rah-E-Nijat
c) Operation Rah-E-Rast
• Impacts Of Terrorism:
a) Civilian Loss
b) Economic Cost Of Terrorism:
i) Agriculture Loss:
ii) Manufacturing Cost:
iii) Declining Foreign Direct Investment:
iv) Diminishing Tourism:
v) Internally Displaced People/internal Migration
c) Social Impacts;
d) Political Impacts:
e) Psychological Impacts:
f) Religious Impacts:
• Remedies:
• Conclusion:

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no british pakistanis is not terrorist.He is very honest persons.

The real truth is as was reported. Evidence of terrorism was found, and the names of the perpetrators are known. Don't pay any attention to the conspiracy theories, which range from uninformed to obscene.

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They claim that they follow a variant of Wahhabi Sunni Islam of the Hanbali School. However, a number of Muslims will argue that they are not "true" Muslims because they are violent and have repeatedly killed other Muslims in brutal ways.

McVeigh, 33, did not speak before he was executed June 11 in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. But in a handwritten statement, he quoted a section of the poem 'Invictus,' which reads in part 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.'

It goes back to the 1970's when he was fighting Russia in Afghanistan. The US supported him, gave his fighters training and arms, and provided funds for his fight. He took what he learned in the 1970's and used it later in his fight against the west after Russia left Afghanistan.

Heroin use in Europe funds Afghan Taliban activities and some of Al Qaeda activities. That Heroin does not enter the USA (usually).

US heroin comes from mainly 2 sources. The first is Columbia (This is mostly the east coast white heroin) and generally comes from Farc and other rebel groups in Columbia (not really terrorists), and the occasional Drug lord. Likewise, The second heroin comes from Mexico and is to be found mostly on the west coast and is black tar heroin and is funded by the drug groups interested in money only (again not terrorists....but bad men nonetheless).

Cocaine and meth mostly comes from COlumbia and Mexico (meth) these days.

Cannibis usually comes from within the US and some comes from Mexico.

So, pretty much none of the US drug use funds terrorism. European Heroin use does though.

Oh, forgot one group.....N Korea and the orient. Some heroin comes into cities like NY that way, but it's minor in comparison to the columbians and Mexicans.