(Note: I know I was advised not to do this. But the whole point of a blog, as I understand, is expression. Nobody is going to kill me because some underrated blog with some badly written opinion)
Terrorism is a serious problem nowadays. Less than ten years ago, there was a terrorist attack in the United States on different parts of the country. Those attacks consisted on the hijacking of 4 commercial airplanes that were crashed in different strategic locations. One of those planes didn’t made it to its destiny and crashed in Pennsylvania. But the other three did succeed. One plane crashed on the Pentagon, a mayor intelligence building located in Washington D.C. And the other two crashed on the Twin Towers, in New York, taking the life of several thousand people.
After these attacks, everybody was suddenly aware of terrorism, which is listed as a serious threat by the UN. But terrorism was a problem centuries before of that. Modern terrorism, however, relies strongly in, as the name says, causing terror in the population, using to this purpose the massive media. But, why do these movements arise?
Usually, terrorism starts because there is an aggravated group that wants to make patent their discomfort towards some problem that exists in their territory. Those movements resort to violence because they see the violence as the only mean to achieve the change that they are pursuing. While some groups have tried to be pacific in their means, only the India had achieved their independence by pacific means. Most of the other movements used violence to achieve their goals.
There are several ways in which a group can feel threatened and pushed to terrorism. One of these is separatism. There are groups like the ETA in Spain that search for the independence of the Vasco zone of Spain. This terrorist group is responsible for a bombing in the train in Madrid.
Another cause of terrorism is a political disagreement. If the other politic voice is not given a forum to express their discomfort, they may choose to show their disagreement through the violence.
And the last cause that will be analyzed here is religion. Religion is also a major cause of terrorism. Sadly, we often see how the teachings of great men through all the world have been deformed or taken to literally and have caused the death of innocent people. These days, terrorism have been used as a weapon. And here we need to make the distinction that even though Muslim people have been labeled as the religious terrorists for excellence; there have been Catholic terrorists groups as the IRA.
Violence is not the way to solve problems. Even when the groups are faced with restrictions, they should try to seek pacific means. But if all else fails, then terrorism is the way to at least claim for attention. I’m not condoning the death of innocent people, but since it is only another action of war, it is inherent to any process that involves the killing on any side. Terrorism is no more cruel than the bombing of hospitals or the repression that the so called ‘victims’ of terrorism inflict on the terrorists.
Terrorism is a serious problem nowadays. Less than ten years ago, there was a terrorist attack in the United States on different parts of the country. Those attacks consisted on the hijacking of 4 commercial airplanes that were crashed in different strategic locations. One of those planes didn’t made it to its destiny and crashed in Pennsylvania. But the other three did succeed. One plane crashed on the Pentagon, a mayor intelligence building located in Washington D.C. And the other two crashed on the Twin Towers, in New York, taking the life of several thousand people.
After these attacks, everybody was suddenly aware of terrorism, which is listed as a serious threat by the UN. But terrorism was a problem centuries before of that. Modern terrorism, however, relies strongly in, as the name says, causing terror in the population, using to this purpose the massive media. But, why do these movements arise?
Usually, terrorism starts because there is an aggravated group that wants to make patent their discomfort towards some problem that exists in their territory. Those movements resort to violence because they see the violence as the only mean to achieve the change that they are pursuing. While some groups have tried to be pacific in their means, only the India had achieved their independence by pacific means. Most of the other movements used violence to achieve their goals.
There are several ways in which a group can feel threatened and pushed to terrorism. One of these is separatism. There are groups like the ETA in Spain that search for the independence of the Vasco zone of Spain. This terrorist group is responsible for a bombing in the train in Madrid.
Another cause of terrorism is a political disagreement. If the other politic voice is not given a forum to express their discomfort, they may choose to show their disagreement through the violence.
And the last cause that will be analyzed here is religion. Religion is also a major cause of terrorism. Sadly, we often see how the teachings of great men through all the world have been deformed or taken to literally and have caused the death of innocent people. These days, terrorism have been used as a weapon. And here we need to make the distinction that even though Muslim people have been labeled as the religious terrorists for excellence; there have been Catholic terrorists groups as the IRA.
Violence is not the way to solve problems. Even when the groups are faced with restrictions, they should try to seek pacific means. But if all else fails, then terrorism is the way to at least claim for attention. I’m not condoning the death of innocent people, but since it is only another action of war, it is inherent to any process that involves the killing on any side. Terrorism is no more cruel than the bombing of hospitals or the repression that the so called ‘victims’ of terrorism inflict on the terrorists.
