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Author Topic:   What makes a terrorist a terrorist?
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Message 99 of 300 (334686)
07-24-2006 12:25 AM
Reply to: Message 96 by Faith
07-23-2006 6:26 PM


Re: DEFINITIONS
Terrorism is IDEOLOGY-DRIVEN. {I may have to modify this, not sure. It may sometimes be motivated by long-standing tribal feuds}
Economic systems such as capitlaism providing the best products at the lowest prices. For example Walmart.
Terrorism is aggressive, not defensive. Unprovoked. Motivated only by the ideology and whatever the ideology tells them to hate.
Walmart invades other markets trying to undercut local goods and services. In this case Walmart hates that other companies or business are in the way of it taking more market share.
Terrorism TARGETS civilians.
Walmart stores target civilians in that they sell all sorts of civilian useful goods.
Terrorism is done by individuals or independent groups, not by national armies.
Walmart is a independent group known as a corporation.
So, based on your definitions Walmart is a terrorist organization. Bent on destroying countries through its retail products and low wages. And by exporting American culture through mass produced goods.
Christianity and any oather religion can be inserted into your definition and be characterized as being a terrorist organization.
At the definition made of terrorism is seen as lacking because it demonstrates that everything is terrorism. Thus the definition needs to be reexamined and changed. Something that is an answer to everything is an answer to nothing.
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Message 236 of 300 (338099)
08-05-2006 1:00 PM
Reply to: Message 232 by Faith
08-05-2006 11:18 AM


Re: Again the much-vilified truth about Islamic terrorism
Terrorist group names, course you see islamic groups there but there are bunch of other ones as well.
Course you can also ingnore the place it comes from mostly because on searching a bunch of other websites they pretty much ad the same thing, this one is just a bit more comprehensive.
terrorist list
Added by Edit: As an addendum I would also point out the while the Islamic groups seem to have a large number of names, that Islam is the second or third largest religion in the world claiming a huge chunk of people as followers. Thus Islamic terrorism is globally under represented.
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Message 238 of 300 (338101)
08-05-2006 1:21 PM
Reply to: Message 237 by Faith
08-05-2006 1:12 PM


Re: Again the much-vilified truth about Islamic terrorism
From the impression I am recieve from your posts is that Islam is the progenittor of terrorism. However, demonstratably there are larger and more numeroes and longer lived terrorist groups then the ones that are Islamic.
Also demonstratably Islamic fundamentalist readings of their holy textbook can't be the sole reason for terrorism cause of the number of groups that aren't Islamic ideologically driven.
Terrorist groups in my opinion arise out of lack of their political needs and wants met course politically this could include socio economic desires. KKK grew because it couldn't maintain its public superiority over black people and in actuality even before the KKK grew out you could construe the way and manner that white people treated black people as terrorism. However, in that context it was a cultural norm so it could be said that the entire Southern population of white folk were terrorists (overgeneraliztion). So it could be then said a behavior is terroist like if it is a violence or bigotry that the a culture does not accept.

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Message 245 of 300 (338159)
08-05-2006 8:59 PM
Reply to: Message 239 by Faith
08-05-2006 1:31 PM


Re: Again the much-vilified truth about Islamic terrorism
Current terrorism in the world is massively predominantly Muslim.
I would take issue with this. More accurately Islamic terrorism would be labeled as the most reported terrorism within western civilization. I would say this because numerous terrorist actions occur in both South America, Africa, (where Islam is far weaker and christianity is the major religion), Eastern Europe (largely christian) and Southeast Asia (mainland is eastern religions the islands have a large population that follow Islam) however, the actions in these areas are largely ignored because these areas aren't terribly important to the west (little if no oil).
Example of such would be the Ruwanda , Kosovo, Cambodia (Pol-Pot) ethnic cleansings same thing as terrorism etc. Both inspire terror in particular groups.

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