Terroris, The Greatest Threat
...is a senseless way to get a point across. Terrorists (anyone who engages in terror) can act to change or take over their government, because of hatred toward a particular religion, race, nationality, or country, or for any other belief or obsession that this person might have. Terrorism comes in all shapes and sizes, from certain forms of Christian fundamentalists who are "terrorists with their mouths," to the September eleventh attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. by Islamic extremists who hate the United States and Christians.
Terrorism is said to have begun around the mid nineteenth-century, although terrorist acts have been used since the beginning of history. Russia, Ireland, England, and France had known terrorism problems, and it did not stop there. In Syria and Iran in the eleventh century, a group known as Hashshashin formed a radical group and murdered popular enemies. In 1868, a known group who called themselves the Ku Klux Klan and who believed in white supremacy terrorized all African-Americans in the United States. Obviously, terrorism has been a long growing problem almost everywhere in the world, and nothing has stopped it yet.
The term "terrorist" is used politically to criticize the violence that the so-called terrorists use. Since the term terrorist is negative, it makes the acts of terrorism sound extreme, immoral, and unjustified. Terrorists prefer to call themselves by other terms like guerrilla, liberator, freedom fighter, and separatist, whichever name sounds best for their particular situation. Of course, the terrorists try to suggest that enticing and brainwashing more people into believing what they believe is not as bad as it appears to be.
A few common known terrorist organizations are the al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the
National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia, and the Armed...
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