Terrorism
“Terrorism is the weapon of the oppressed”
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.” ― Noam Chomsky In any set up there are legitimate, legal and peaceful means of expressing displeasure and disapproval of certain policies in a country. Peaceful demonstrations were successfully employed by Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the U.S. However, a new method has come into existence and that’s terrorism. There’s no exact way of defining terrorism. Still, it can be said as the policy of striking terror in people’s mind by violent methods to achieve some ends. Of late, terrorism has become the order of the day. Terrorists are not born, they are created. Terrorism is not an option to the oppressed but the demand of time.
The old adage, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is still well known today. Acts of terrorism conjure emotional responses in the victims as well as in the practitioners. Terrorists believe that they have no alternative options to get rid of their political, economic, and religious oppression. This leads them into thinking that use of terrorism can help them put forward their views and compel the concerned authorities to fulfill their political, economic, or religious demands. Oppression of people is a root cause of terrorism. The effects that oppression causes are poverty, unhappiness and bitter thoughts and feelings. Then those who are in need of want and need change see terrorism as the only way to freedom. Without a proper platform to voice concerns, they fight for the majority in other ways. The ways in which they fight is by using combat techniques that cause attention towards their cause. This usually ends in mass destruction, massacre and death.
The oppressed fear that their calmer voice will not be heard
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.” ― Noam Chomsky In any set up there are legitimate, legal and peaceful means of expressing displeasure and disapproval of certain policies in a country. Peaceful demonstrations were successfully employed by Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the U.S. However, a new method has come into existence and that’s terrorism. There’s no exact way of defining terrorism. Still, it can be said as the policy of striking terror in people’s mind by violent methods to achieve some ends. Of late, terrorism has become the order of the day. Terrorists are not born, they are created. Terrorism is not an option to the oppressed but the demand of time.
The old adage, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is still well known today. Acts of terrorism conjure emotional responses in the victims as well as in the practitioners. Terrorists believe that they have no alternative options to get rid of their political, economic, and religious oppression. This leads them into thinking that use of terrorism can help them put forward their views and compel the concerned authorities to fulfill their political, economic, or religious demands. Oppression of people is a root cause of terrorism. The effects that oppression causes are poverty, unhappiness and bitter thoughts and feelings. Then those who are in need of want and need change see terrorism as the only way to freedom. Without a proper platform to voice concerns, they fight for the majority in other ways. The ways in which they fight is by using combat techniques that cause attention towards their cause. This usually ends in mass destruction, massacre and death.
The oppressed fear that their calmer voice will not be heard