Terrorism And Terrorism Attacks

Ever since 9/11 when both World Trade Center buildings were attacked by an Islamic Group, attacks by Islamic Terrorist on U.S. soil have been less of a threat than Domestic Terrorists. Domestic Terrorism has been shown these passed for years but yet again most of these cases have not been classified as acts of Domestic Terrorism they most likely fall into the category. Now the definition of Domestic Terrorism is basically "the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator 's own country against their fellow citizens". Now personally I don 't know how our government is working with these popular cases like Charlottesville, Las Vegas, and a new that just happened recently actually two but I 'll just say one, the New York attack that

Religious terrorism is regularly portrayed as demonstrations of unreasonable, silly and indiscriminate violence, along these lines offering few, if any what really spur religious terrorism measures. This presumption about religious terrorism comes from different nations, groups and individual’s. Unbalanced regard for prophetically catastrophic terrorism, and an absence of qualification between religious terrorism and its mainstream partner. This article, in this manner, expects to do four things: characterize and separate religiously inspired terrorism, confidence, and activism along the lines of faith and violence. Furthermore, prescribe a scope of religion, confidence, and terrorism systems in view of these perceptions.

Terrorism, a word most people fear, but so often misinterpret. The textbook definition of terrorism is “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”. But how does that compare to domestic terrorism? Domestic terrorism or “homegrown terrorism” can be defined as “the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator’s own country against their fellow citizens”. Throughout the years, America as a nation has experienced quite a few occurrences of both types. An early example of homegrown terrorism would be the Haymarket Affair which occurred May 4, 1886 where in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, labor protesters detonated a bomb during a rally. Chicago police then responded by firing

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act ""dangerous to human life"" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism.

Terrorism is nothing new. So long as there has been a governing body in power, ruled by a few or by many, there are some people that won’t or can’t comply with that system and will use violence and the threat of violence for political and social change. Since the attacks on 911 the USA has increased its homeland security posture as well as its international search to root out terrorism. Terrorist organizations operate globally and are able to recruit just by the propaganda they advertise. A person can now be trained through the internet, construct a means of attack and kill indiscriminately without ever meeting who they claim allegiance to. There are more targets and means to attack those targets than ever before. Terrorists evolve and learn. As such, so must those that serve to counter it. The US has some of the best counterterrorism agencies, units and professionals the world has seen but sometimes terrorists successfully carry out their plans.

Have you ever had a fear for your family, your town, your country, or your world. How about the fear to have everything taken from you, destroyed, and not caring if it has hurt you or not? What about your fear and pain is, and can be someone else’s happiness? The fear of you being terrorized? That is terrorism. Someone else bringing fear and terrorizing you. That is a terrorist’s goal. Terrorism is common and is very difficult to stop. The government promises protection for the people, and their home, but they can not give that protection if they can not stop terrorism. Terrorism needs to stop to protect the live of the people, and their country.

The global threat of Al Qaeda and ISIL, increase Sunni-Shia conflicts and voice in Middle East, Africa. Europe and around the world and has posed challenge to government in the region and the global. Some scholars argue that the clash of civilization or culture war between the Muslims and the West relations. The public discussion of Islam and violence have raised question about the relationship of Islamism in regards to violence and terrorism. Many critics’ believes that doctrines like Jihad and past historical event in the past has been a strong indicator and evidence that Islam is the main driving force Muslims extremism and terrorism in contemporary world. Islamic radicalization and terrorists have taken advantage of the doctrine Jihad like Christian and Jewish did in the past to carry out the acts of terrorism in unholy wars in the name of Christianity or Judaism. The meaning of Jihad in the Quran is '' to fight following the will of God, fight injustice and oppression, reform and create a just society, and if necessary to engage oneself in armed struggle to defend one's community and religion. The Quran also stresses on fighting against aggression and offensive or expansionist and a command to fight against all unbelievers and spread the message and public order. Critics argue the meaning and intention of Q. 9:5 is the motivation behind Muslims extremist and terrorist groups in past and present history. Islamic groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda as well as Boka Haram

Terrorism can be defined as an aggressive form of action mainly to cause havoc, fear in any given ways intended by the perpetrator or perpetrators to get what they want, usually in vengeance to political or socioeconomic needs not met in their societies or in one’s life. These violent acts comes in many forms that includes killings of innocent citizens, plotting attacks on public gatherings using explosive devices to kill in mass scale. Terrorist also incite fear and hate in people by embarking on an endless propaganda in order to attract attention mainly for recruitment purposes. Terrorist have come in many shaped and from many backgrounds. They have no specific unique traditional origin, they come from almost all walks of life since human beings are human and can address situations in different ways from person to person. Individuals get depressed, sometimes mentally challenged and also sometimes hateful towards things and groups they don’t identify with or do not simply like and they will resort to violent to satisfy their ego. The severity of the actions they embark on results terror and can be severe than one another, but the intention mainly is to satisfy one’s soul or to just go out there and kill as many as one can imagine because one is mentally challenged or one is a pure terrorist whose only solutions to problems he cannot help is vengeance by any means necessary. Terrorist also want to make sure their political or economic needs are met by any means, and if this

“You mutt. You are worthless scum.” Stated a NYPD officer as he attacked a young Muslim boy. Everyday people are effected by terrorism, but what not everyone knows or understands is how hard terrorism can be for innocent Muslims. Many Muslims are targeted because of their religious association with Islamic extreamists. Even some non-Muslim, Arabic people are targeted because of their ethnicity. Terrorism can take a major toll on Muslim-American’s physical, social, mental, and emeotional well being.

Terrorism can have many different meanings or definitions to different individuals but in the end terrorism is the threat and use of physical and physiological force by individuals or groups who want to receive strategic and political gain. The FBI’s definition comes from the Code of Federal Regulations which states that, “The unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." (Href, Mailto, Oliver, & Libaw, 2011) Terrorists want to put fear in the citizens and government that they are targeting. The more fear communities and the government have, the more successful terrorists will judge their attacks. (Newman & Clarke, 2007) The goals of terrorists is to inflict causalities, create fear, and to draw media attention. (Newman & Clarke, 2007) Terrorism acts are thought to be large, astonishing events but terrorism comes in many different forms. Some different forms consist of car bombing, assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of an airline, train or ship, chemical or biological attacks, suicide bombings, and many more. (Newman & Clarke, 2007) With all of these unique ways that terrorist attacks can materialize first responders are presented with many risks. These risks consist of putting their own life in danger, not having full knowledge and information of the situation before being in the situation themselves, not having the

The crime – terror nexus of narcotics traffickers and terrorists is a phenomenon that has been discussed for several decades. While there exists widespread agreement that the violent non-state actors and criminal narcotics organizations share similar characteristics and cooperate, there is a great deal of disagreement regarding strategies to combat these two when they occur simultaneously. In the current case of Afghanistan, where the international community has been engaged in both counterinsurgency and counternarcotics campaigns for over a decade, the effects have not been as successful as was once hoped. The recent Global Terrorism Index Report indicating terrorists acts are again on the rise (The Institute for Economics and Peace, 2014 p. 17) is complicated by the release of the recent UN report which revealed that opium-poppy cultivation levels are at another all-time high (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014 p. 12).

According to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), a terrorist attack is defined as “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation,” (Global Terrorism Database, 2017). More specifically, the GTD includes acts of terrorism in its database if all three of these attributes are present: 1) the incident must be intentional and calculated on the part of a perpetrator, 2) it must involve some level of violence or threat of violence, including property violence, against people, and 3) the perpetrators of the incidents must be “sub-national actors,” or people that belong to a community of common culture or interests that are not administratively independent (GTD, 2017). However, the disconnect between the definition of a terrorist attack and how the media portrays terrorism is dangerously disharmonious.

Acts of terror and political violence are inevitably one in the same. Terrorism requires violence towards non-combatants with a goal derived from a social or political view differing from the target of interest. It also pertains to violence or acts of terror committed to achieve a political goal. Political violence is described as violence perpetrated by either persons or governments to achieve political goals. These definitions are one in the same. However, what they don’t include is the use of symbolism behind their malevolent acts. Symbolism introduces itself when the use of propaganda campaigns and statements is utilized to critically convey the righteousness and benevolence of the terrorist. The symbolic value of targets also distinguishes terrorism from other simple acts of extreme violence. Another seldom-thought component behind terrorism is that these acts seek to inflict psychological damage rather than demolish its material or ability to fight (Matusitz). Terrorism exploits symbolism by using it to push an extremist agenda, commit graves acts of terror and strategically target items or people of interest.

It depends on how you define terrorism, but the practice of terrorism can be traced back to at least to the 1st-century AD. Oxford Dictionary defines terrorism as; the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Edmund Burke says that the term "terrorism" itself originally meant the actions of the Jacobin Club during the "Reign of Terror" in the French Revolution. "Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible," said Maximilien Robespierre. Martha Crenshaw states that in January 1858, Italian patriot Felice Orsini threw three bombs trying to assassinate French Emperor Napoleon III. Eight bystanders were killed and 142 injured. The incident played a crucial role as an inspiration for the development of the early terrorist groups. In the 19th century, powerful, stable, and affordable explosives were developed, global integration reached unprecedented levels and often radical political movements became widely influential. Ben Saul has noted that a "A combination of pragmatic and principled arguments supports the case for defining terrorism in international law", including the need to condemn violations to human rights, to protect the state and deliberative politics, to differentiate public and private violence, and to ensure international peace and security. Carlos Diaz-Paniagua, who coordinated the negotiations of the proposed United Nations Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism,

In the last century, terrorism seems not just more lethal but more common, but more widespread. This is leaving Citizens overwhelmingly in fear of their lives as they distress a Paris-style terror massacre will occur on our shores. With a news poll from “The Australian”, stating that more than half of the Australian population believing a large-scale event is likely and one- quarter convinced it is unavoidable. With a wide spread of events occurring this year, it is petrifying people across the globe.