Terrorism

(Introduction) Afghanistan, a troublesome country, struggle`s everyday to put an end to the production of the illegal drug, opium, that is being produced everyday under the Taliban`s control. The Taliban plays a major role in the continuance of the illegal opium production by supporting, encouraging, and demanding the continuance of the opium production, which leads to violence with the innocent people if they don't corporate with the Taliban.

(Background History) The Taliban, a radically militant Islamic movement appeared in late 1994, and controlled 90 percent of Afghanistan between 1996-2001. The term "Taliban" comes from the Persian and Pashtu plural of the Arabic word Talib (Seeker of knowledge). Subsequently, they banned female access to education and employment, and imposed draconian Islamic laws that called for severe punishments, including the stoning death of proven adulterers and the amputating of thieves' hands and feet. Despite their strict beliefs and anti- drug profiling, the Taliban could not resist using opium to fund its activities, underlining the movement`s poor understanding and interpretation of Islamic law. The steepest challenge is the burgeoning drug trade, which funds not just the Taliban attacks, but has created a general climate of lawlessness throughout the country with violence. Opium has been cultivated and consumed by human beings since at least the third millennium. Afghanistan has been affected by opium since the twentieth century, when opium was spread throughout the Golden Crescent (Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan).Due to this, Afghanistan is accounting for 93 percent of the world's opium production. (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and Reins, Thomas)

(Supporting) Over 18 years of internal warfare has left the country with extreme

poverty, massive unemployment and little hope of an economy being rebuilt in

the near future, but The Taliban supports the production of opium by gaining the

trust of the farmers and civilians who grow the opium by giving out food, money,

and cloths during the holy holiday of Ramadan. Once the Taliban gains the trust

of the farmers and civilians, the Taliban can ask them to pretty much do

whatever they want for them. The lack of action to stop production is suspected

to be due to the opium industry's financial support to the Taliban militia. In order

to support the protection of the farmers and the opium, the Taliban buys

weapons with some of the money they made from selling opium, to give to their

fellow Taliban to kill any militia. The farmers only see the money rolling in as their

poppy crops disappear in wagons, which is promised by the Taliban because

the farmers don't want to see the end result of their crop. (Willems, Peter.)

(Encourages) One way the Taliban encourages the farmers to make opium for

them is they tell the farmers that if you switch your crops from wheat to opium,

you can make more money and support your family better, but although the motivation behind the Taliban decision to allow the opium industry to flourish is unclear, what motivates the farmers is obvious. Over 18 years of internal warfare has left the country with extreme poverty, massive unemployment and little hope of an economy being rebuilt in the near future. The Taliban have also encouraged the farmers and civilians who grow the opium by telling them that they will protect them from the militia. All of this seems to work due to the fact that Afghanistan is accounting for 93 percent of the world`s opium production. (Willems, Peter.)

(Demands) The Taliban demands the production of opium because without the money that they make from selling the opium, the Taliban wouldn't have as much money as they do today. Without the money, the Taliban cannot buy weapons, recruit new members, or even pay the farmers who grow the opium in the first place. If a farmer refuses to grow the opium, depending on how bad the Taliban need it, the Taliban will demand that they grow the opium for them or they will burn down their other crops or house, beat them, or even kill them. Because of this, most of the farmers do corporate with the Taliban because they don't want to be injured or killed. The harsh demands that the Taliban ask from the farmers do tire them out, which leads to the farmers not producing enough opium to fit the Taliban`s needs.

(Conclusion) From this, Afghanistan struggles to put an end to the production of the illegal drug, opium, that is being produced under the Taliban`s control. The Taliban plays a major role in the continuance of the illegal opium production by supporting, encouraging, and demanding the continuance of the opium production. Only we can hope that one day, this will all come to an end.

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With evil meaning physically posessed, no.

Osama is a terrorist according to western views and bias, as a result of acts being directly and indirectly coordinated by him, he has been referred to by people as being "evil". In this sense however it just refers to being cold and heartless, killing innocent civillians in order to send a message to the government. To some Osama is a great freedom fighter to others he is a terrorist, similar to Che Gueverra but Osama has killed more people. It is entirely your own opinion, if you are an Islamic extremist and think that the middle east should be run as strict Islamic states under strict Islamic laws you will agree with his cause. If you are a Socialist or any other opposing opinion you would be generally opposed to this man unless you find his acts against the U.S. as a sign of anti-imperialism.

It is entirely your own opinion.
He is the mastermind who planed 9/11. Its an opinion question. But he was just killed on 5/1/11 by US navy seals in Packston.
Yes because he was respnsible for the 9 11 plane crash. And he is a taliban.

In the Middle East, violence is not only considered a valid form of political action, it is considered by many the most valid form of action.

"Terrorism" is a type of irregular warfare characterized by attacking the innocent or uninvolved in order to influence the real target group which is too strong to be attacked. This is why Soviet-supported Palestinians were blowing up European stores and airlines and shooting up the 1972 Olympics. The reason terrorism is more prevalent in the Middle East is complicated.

Islam began in 622 C. E. as the third installment in a series (Judaism and Christianity being the first two). "Islam" means "submission" to god's will; Muslims generally believe (and the Qur'an teaches) that humans are emotional creatures, and only god can control them. This belief can manifest on a sliding scale from total fatalism and learned helplessness, to a level of personal responsibility (reinforced by god's love) nearly identical to that practiced by the most compassionate and tolerant members of any Western society, and of course this varies by country, sect, and individual.

The religion spread eventually across North Africa and southern Asia, as far into Europe as Spain in the west and Greece and part of Italy in the east, and from Mongolia in the north to Indonesia in south Asia. A Muslim (Arab) army was turned back near Paris in 732; the Crusades started in 1096, over three hundred years later. The Muslims still refer to the expansion as "the opening" (al-fatah), meaning a religious salvation rather than as a conquest. While Europeans probably used to refer hundreds of years ago to the Conquistadors' enslavement of South America as a "salvation," but they matured out of it a long time ago. This difference in the definition of responsibility is a primary divergence between the two cultures, and the first step in understanding why terrorism is so prevalent in the Middle East.

The practitioners of both Islam and Christianity were heavily armed, and both had long warrior traditions which were in no way moderated by their new religions. The two faiths fought constantly until the European colonial period. During this entire time, they also conducted trade, and the Muslims became the richest and most educated society in the world. Many old Greek and Latin texts were lost to the West, but were translated, studied, and improved on by the Arabs, who were becoming fabulously rich from controlling trade on the Silk Road. During the Renaissance, Europeans obtained through trade the scientific information and technological basis for the modern world long with the numbers we currently use (try doing geometry with those Super Bowl numbers). At that time, however, the Muslim empire went broke because the West began trading by sea rather than by the Silk Road (1515). Muslim nations have been relatively poor ever since, resulting in corruption and resentment. A movement in the Arabian peninsula called the Wahhabis began in the early 1700s with the declared aim of forcing compliance with their extremist version of Islam and eternal hostility towards everyone else. This is the origin of Al-Qaeda.

Palestine made it worse. Most of the Jews were exiled from Palestine starting in 60 C. E. by the Romans, and have spent 1900 years talking about "going home." While they were gone, the land filled up with a combined population of Jews-turned-Muslims, Crusaders, Arabs, and Turks. In 1947 the U. N. gave the Jews parts of Palestine; the Muslims living there were understandably upset, and seven wars have followed, during which Israel has taken the whole country (beyond what the U. N. authorized), and the Middle East has been blanketed with Palestinian Arab refugees, who are now sitting around talking about "going home" (sound familiar?). Every city in the region has thousands of Palestinian refugees, so every Arab is reminded daily that non-Muslims are living in the lands they took by force.

This leads to anger and frustration. As all "Middle Easterners" look alike to Westerners, all Westerners get lumped in with the Israelis, especially since the US and others have helped Israel so much. The anger leads to people initially subconsciously, then consciously cheering whenever somebody who looks like them "stands up to the man." Arab dictators and other leaders also play "the Palestine card" whenever they want to deflect attention to an external enemy. The entire region has become obsessed with the Palestine issue.

When the Soviet Union (communists, therefore atheists) invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Arab world rallied to help the Afghans, who are Muslims (but not Arabs). Chief among these were the Wahhabi extremists from Saudi Arabia, whom the West supported with weapons and training. When the Soviets went home and their society collapsed soon after, the modern wave of terrorism took off, buoyed by a belief that god had given them a victory over the West. That's were we are now.

Second : Palestines and israelis defend their homeland and their properties by any possible ways

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its becasue there alot of Arabs in the midle east and there a bunch of Jews right next door or in Iraq some us soilders and its on land where they cna easily get weapons so walla they can attack easily from their

No country, to be exact, attacked the US on September 11, 2001. No one, at first wanted to take the credit. However, Osama Bin Laden and the terrorist/political/religious group Al Qaeda he is said to have been affiliated with are now credited with the attack. The countries that harbored the terrorists were primarily Pakistan and Afghanistan, but they were not at fault in the escape of the terrorists from the United States soldiers. They have not found them because of the intense mountainous terrain and vast social network that Osama Bin Laden maintains.
The September 11th attacks, which occurred in 2001, were perpetrated by the al'Qaeda. They are active in Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden, leader of the al'Qaeda, is generally blamed for ordering the attacks.