Describe your sense of  "Terrorism"?
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people who feel that they have to play god and take the lives of other people so that they feel better about themselves\nterroism is sickening
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What does a terrorist look like?\nAre we backing this terrorist's country at this time?\nWhat can I do as an individual to help stop terrorism?\nWhat is the definition of terrorism?\nCan the CIA, NSA, or the FBI win the war on terrorism
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R-e-s-p-e-c-t-e-d is more like it.......Respect is the most important deterrent against terrorism.  \n\nWhen will everyone else in this country get it!?
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Terrorists have a home\nIf there is a war to be fought - let it be there
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I've never SEEN anything, but I've FELT a lot of stuff.\nThere are certain areas in my house that just don't feel right: the fireplaces in the living and dining room; when you're standing in the kitchen and looking down the two steps and through the door into my bedroom (which is a re-converted garage); and the part of the driveway under the avocado tree beside my room. Everytime I'm in any of these places at night I feel someone behind me, almost as if they're going to touch my neck above my shoulders.\nAnother incident I had was when I was 12. My elder sister and I were walking to the La Puente Mall after watching a movie in the theater. We had about a mile walk down a winding business street running paralell to the 60 freeway. It was dark, darker than we thought it would be. And thirteen years ago there were only bushes and trees near the sidewalk, with the few buildings quite a distance away. As we were walking this little white pick up truck comes down the street really slow, crawling along with his headlights on. As soon as he catches sight of us, he accelerates and pulls into the driveway we just passed, and jumps out of his car with his truck still running and his lights on. I could hear his feet crunching through the leaves on the sidewalk and I started to pray because I was so frightened, too frightened to run. I asked my Guardian Angel to protect me and my sister, to wrap us in his wings and hide us from this evil man's eyes. As soon as I was finished the footsteps turned direction abruptly! The man ran back to his car, jumped in, and tore off down the street in the opposite direction.\nDid he see something? An angel perhaps, wrapping two girls in his wings?\nI don't know.
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Pretty hard to seperate being muslim from terrorism. It is a common denominator.
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Terrorists are different from revolutionaries and freedom fighters. The latter two might accidentally kill innocents by negligence, bad luck or lack of thought. Terrorists by deffinition target innocents in the hope of creating enough fear to win their objective. Terrorism by nature is an admission of the inability to win militarily as such they attempt to scare/intimidate an enemy. This almost always fails so terrorists are also people with a complete lack of knowledge in history. Terrorism in the past has almost always hardened resolve and hurt a people's cause. \n\nSo no, most people could not actually intionally harm children in particuler. How many of you could sit on a bus with a bomb strapped to you and look at the child accross from you knowing you were about to kill them? I don't think many of us could do that. \n\nTo be a terrorist you have to leave your humanity behind. You have to decide that the qualifications for being a human are your narrow specifications. That those not like you are not human. Again most educated people cannot draw this line. Killing soldiers and enemy leaders yes. Killing those of your own group who betray your cause yes. Intentionally killing children and innocents no. \n\nThis is also why I feel that the accusations of the West being terrorists are groundless. When a missle hits a hospital by accident, often because the enemy placed military targets right next to a hospital, it was not something they wanted to do and we feel bad about doing this. The Arab nations know this and intentionally place targets near schools, hospitals and other areas willingly sacraficing women, elderly and children to generate negitive PR against their enemy. There is something inately psychotic about doing that in my opinion. \n\nMe I could easily blow up enemy bases, help sink enemy ships, assasionate an enemy leader and such if I felt I had really good cause to do so. I could not knowingly execute children. It's just not in me.
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I dont think any religion widely accepted by rational people is or can be.  By definition terrorism is to instill terror in ones enemies.  Most religions I know of want us to accept our neighbors not terrorize them
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You, who?  You, as an individual or the general will (i.e. the people, the government, the sovereignty)?   True, if an individual, for whatever reason, does not feel terrorized by terrorism then to that individual terrorism is not scary.   But even then it does not mean that just because “you” are not “scared” of terrorism, its destructive consequences cannot affect you and/or inflict pain and mayhem upon those that you happen to love and care for.   In that sense then, terrorism is and should be scary to all of us - we all have something and/or someone of value to lose, don't we?    Not to mention that, terrorism is clearly an act that directly infringes upon an individual’s right to liberty and pursuit of happiness.   Many of us do not have a fear of death, for instance, but does that mean we would enthusiastically prefer to be maimed or killed in a deliberate act of violence that we had no control over?   You have even less control over your own fate in a terrorist attack than if you had committed a suicide or were involved in an accident!    …The government, on the other hand, as the general will, should never react out of terror or fear of anything, but rather concern for the well-being of the public and the preservation and enforcement of the constitution and the citizens’ rights.     In other words, terrorism remains an act of violence whether we are individually terrorized by it or not.   Besides, generally speaking, terrorism’s true aim is not to create fear in the mind of an individual (that would be a mere common criminal act) but the masses.   Although the individual is always the innocent bystander – the true UNIT of terror, in the mind of a terrorist, is never measured in individuals (fearful or not) but in masses.    …Conclusion:  YES, even if terrorism does not scare “you”, it is still terrorism.
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Terrorism is a wide concept that has been used throughout the ages, by the powerful to oppress the weak. It has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. In fact, I believe most of the writings in the Qu'ran are similar in one way or another to Christianity and Judaism, and I'm a Catholic myself. Here's the definition of terrorism from Encyclopedia Britannica:\n\n" The systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police."\n\nA good example of an authority or state using terror to achieve "victory" (just like that fake Muhammad quote you posted) is France after the revolution in 1789, Robespierre executed hundreds of possible political enemies and innocent people, thus inflicting  fear in the population. Another good example of a state promoting terrorism is the United States of America. Want examples? The A-bombs in Japan, the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the funding of anti-soviet guerrilla groups in Afghanistan (Osama Bin Laden was in one of those groups), the funding of the Contra guerrilla in Nicaragua, the sales of weapons to IRAN during the 80's which eventually led to the Iran-Contra Scandal, the funding of anti-goverment and terrorist groups inside Saddam's Iraq during the 90's.
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Most terrorists were just ordinary people like everyone else. Some of them endured pain while growing up and kept it inside. It's not greed on their part; but others who refused to accept them for some reason. Maybe, he or she was "different" and was not allowed to join any game when he or she was in grade school and at the same time, is abused at home. They grow, they snap, lose all morality and begin believing that they are "purging" the world; "ridding" us of the corrupt individuals that would be "the rest of us". Some just want to make a statement; to be noticed. Some believe that they are carrying a divine mission. But whatever they believe, it all started at some point early in life. There are usually 2 causes. They were too over-confident and began thinking that they were given the authority to rule over the rest; and the other is that people around them didn't care about them and they just need someone or everyone to notice them - cutting deep into them that there is no more hope for a cure. I feel sorry for them but I feel more sorry for the people that made them that way.
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Terrorist(ism) is really a non-specific term. Enemy (an entity) is of high utility to identifying, targeting & protecting. You could point to countless categories of violence, ignoring more important attributes that unite the perpetrators, and make no progress defeating them.
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If someone's behavior has the tendency to terrorize, and its intention is to force change by violent means, we generally consider it terrorism, regardless of its impact on any individual in particular.
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are you terrorist????.........
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Terrorism is an extreme act in opposition to something or someone you personally value.  \n\nThe "legal right to fight against occupation" is an extreme act in support of something or someone you personally value.\n\nOne person's patriot is another person's terrorist.
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i was at home getting ready for school. i was really upset becuase my cat had this awful tumor and he was going through so much pain and was going to die soon. when my mom saw the attacks on tv she statrted to freak out.. ikt scared me so much because i didnt know what was happening and to see my mom get scared was something unreal to me. my cat died 2 days later and basically my world was a fog. with the attacks i was just trying to find out who the bad men taking over the airplanes were, and why they wanted to hurt us. then when my cat died i was really upset. seeing grownups (my teachers, neighbors, parents) feeling uneasy and being upset was something new for me. when the people i looked up to didnt know the answer, i fell apart. i was scared of terrorists attacking my near-by chicago. i recently read the 9/11 report and it cleared a few things up. i will never really forget that day... and the says that followed. terrorism is somethign that cannot be forgiven.\n\n- noname, now age 13
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What exactly is your definition of terrorist.\n\nDOD defines it as follows: The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological. \n\n"The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear" <-- The US broke international law. Yeah Yeah I know, The US does not need anyone's permission to go to war, but let us be literal with the definition.\n\n"intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."   <--Intimidate governments(pre-emptive strikes)  Ideological goals <--bring democracy.\n\nOr are you referring to those other people that the government and media can't make up their mind on what to call them? Terrorist or Insurgent.\n\nDOD defines insurgent as follows: Member of a political party who rebels against established leadership. \n\nEvery dissenter here would then be an insurgent. Or shall we get explicit on what exactly rebel means. \n\nMaybe we should ask how many American terrorists (only following orders from command) have killed Arabs.\n\n\n\n***alexbharris*** It is not a matter of being an apologist. Your reasoning is illogical. You justify dropping bombs on a nations to rid the nation of murderers, rapists and torturers? Saddam was not the worst dictator. That war is based on lies and close minded sheep keep coming up with different excuses as to why we are there. Why not drop a bomb or two on Uzbekistan, or in the Sudan. Or how about the United States. Did you happen to read the article or two about CIA and Army Intel officers torturing prisoners. Or how about imprisoning people for years with not only due process, but no charges. This war is all about the 'ism!!\n\nImperialism! Capitalism! Materialism!!! Racism!!!   What statistics did the common person keep on Arabs before all this happened. It is at minimum, a subtle form of racism!\n\n\nhttp://www.darkwingbird.com/bombs-away4.wmv