Global Terrorism Essay

Freedom or Safety On December 2nd, 2015 there was a mass shooting that killed 14 people and injured 21 in San Bernardino. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted Apple to create a software to unlock Farook’s (one of the gunmen) phone. However the FBI has recently opened the phone without the help of Apple. Nonetheless the question still arises was Apple's refusal to the FBI the right thing to do, and is safety more important than the freedom of privacy? The answer to this is yes, Apple…

If we do not stand up for ourselves we will suffer and break to pieces and then we start losing faith to our own religion because of the war on terror and if any one speaks about terrorism they will end up speaking about Islam. We are not a religion spread by sword we are religion of peace and Islam in Arabic means peace. We have to start saying we’re not going to stand for this anymore. The media has to start looking at its role in…

How well does the word “violent” describe Muslims? Despite anti-Muslim rhetoric flying around in modern politics, Islam is actually no more violent than any other religion. Historically, Islam and Christianity are pretty much on par for people killed in the name of God. Yet, in recent years, there has been a spike in hate crimes against Muslims, despite lack of evidence that Muslims are more likely to carry out attacks than Christians or Jews. So, why is there so much stigma surrounding one of…

From the initial invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq following the 9-11 attacks to now, the United States government and tax payers have spent a total of almost 1.6 trillion dollars since 2003 on the war to combat “terror.” With US military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands US service members are sent overseas to fight those who wish to do America harm. To move all those troops, equipment, logistical services, and then to pay for any injuries that may come to the vets after…

Terrorism is the use of violence in the pursuit of political aims. Terrorism is not always just violence it can also be threats made against anyone that is involved in politics. The threats or violence is made to a certain group of people in an area to achieve a political goal. Terrorist do not always have to be someone from another country, but can be someone from the United States. The Oklahoma City Bombing was an act of terrorism. McVeigh was angry with the United States government for an…

Some of the differences in meaning between words “terror” and “terrorism” according the author are that “Terror was still a name for intense fear, but it no longer connoted a social force.”(10) rather than “terrorism”, witch by modern times refers only to the “use of violence against a government, not on its behalf” (11) During the French revolution according to Nunberg the traditional definition of terror changes from “is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore…

Terrorism is not new to the world, it has been used since the early times of recorded history, but it is different today from what it was like in the ancient times. The Sicarii were a Jewish group that has been believed to do the first act of terror in the recorded history, by slaughtering their Roman rulers. In the past, terrorism was for the purpose of ethnic cleansing and to keep a brutal dictatorship in power. Today, the purposes of terrorism haven’t really changed, however it is better to…

Fear: One major similarity between The Crucible and ISIS is that there is a considerable amount of fear, which causes people to act in ways they normally wouldn’t act. One example of this is that in both situations the arrest rates rose greatly because the people’s fear increased. After ISIS captured major cities in Syria, “the frequency of arrests in the United States accelerated from an average rate of just over one per month… to an average rate of over seven per month ...” (ISIS Cases in the…

One of the groups that have drawn the most attention in the last year has been Boko Haram (Lecture notes). Boko Haram was designated a terrorist group by U.S. in 2013 (Chothia, 2015). Government officials admit they “could have done it sooner” (Kessler, 2014). To be designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), there is a procedure that must be followed, as well as criteria that must be met (Kessler, 2014). The criteria includes the determination that the organization’s terrorist…

violence have demonstrated that there exists an emotional barrier that inhibits violence. Passage through this emotional barrier is enabled by situational circumstances which serve as enabling factors. While most forms of terrorism have these enabling factors, lone actor terrorism presents a unique challenge for an individual looking to navigate through the emotional barriers and engage in violence. This is particularly true of some recent incidents where the attacker has not used remote…