Americans know “racial profiling is both morally wrong and ineffective”, but they rather be safe than sorry (Chavez 563). Americans only get the idea that all middle easterners are terrorists because media has taken the role of portraying them in such a way to plants terror in Americans (Spurlock). People have gotten to the point of people being “singled out” because of looking certain way or because people around them feel uncomfortable (Chavez 569).
As the name implies, terrorism is understood as an attempt to provoke fear and intimidation. Terrorist acts are designed to attract wide publicity and cause public shock, outrage, and fear. There is not a universal definition of terrorism that is accepted around the world because of the different beliefs that are associated with its cause. Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
Cyber terrorists can be motivated to target organizations that will result in the radical’s group to cause the most harm and/or receive the most attention for their party. Cyberterrorists use the internet to spread propaganda and enlist new members and use DoS/DDoS attacks to cause disruption to companies that represent actions against their belief’s (Vacca & Rudolph, 2011). Cyber terrorists can also steal information to be used for self-serving strategic purposes. Kostadinov (2012) makes the distinction between cybercrime and cyberterrorism in that the latter should resemble terrorist attacks via traditional methods but perpetrated virtually. Kostadinov goes on to note that most cyberterrorism actions are generally focused on website sabotage and email blasting.
This legislation was introduced in a rapid fashion following the attack of 9/11. Because of this, it had some points of vagueness and left it open for misinterpretation. Organizations like the ACLU fed on this and released multiple reports demeaning the substance of the Act. In doing this, it introduced fear to the public that their civil liberties were being greatly compromised. In reality, the majority of the legislation is directed towards people suspected of terrorism.
The US’s outlook on terrorism has always been negative. However, after the attack on 9/11, our views on terrorism were taken to a whole other level. After 9/11, the US tightly restricted their policies on terrorism and the penalties involved with it. Prisons became stricter and sentences relating to terrorism became harsher. There were even separate prisons built in more isolated areas which were specifically designed for terrorism offenders.
Nowadays when one sees a Muslim or someone who looks like a Muslim, that person is automatically deemed as either being dangerous or a terrorist. This fact comes to tell how far the world has come to. The 9/11 attacks changed the people’s perspective upon Muslims and now the stereotype is that all Muslims are bad and that they are all terrorists looking to kill innocent Americans. The next reason as to why the attacks were a success was due to the support that al-Qaeda got from different organizations and countries. They got financial support from countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria.
Many believe that the Iraq war was a fatal mistake and it actually heightened terrorist activities. So, Post 9/11, US had become a war mongering country in the name of fighting
The effectiveness of direct retaliation which involves the US led war on terrorism. After the 9/11 attacks many Americans had the view that the world changed forever. These attacks on the United States caused so much grief and hatred to those that perpetrated and were involved in the attacks that on October the 7th 2001 US and British troops invaded Iraq to seek and destroy those involved so that an attack on foreign soil of this magnitude does not happen again. The main impact for me this war has caused is that there are more people joining terrorist groups today because they don’t believe in what out governments are doing so they feel like joining the enemy is a good way to get what they want. At the moment with the current situation with
GLOBAL INJUSTICE: TERRORISM Terrorism is the use of violence and or intimidation by a person or a group of people to achieve a political goal. That is one of the many unofficial definitions of terrorism some other definitions now include acts of unlawful violence and war. Studies have found that there are over one hundred different definitions of terrorism but people today use the term terrorist to describe islamism or jihadism and ignoring the non-islamic organizations or individuals. Terrorism has been used by many political organizations, nationalistic groups, religious groups, revolutionaries, and ruling governments. one consistent characteristic is the use of violence on non-combatants to gain publicity for a group,cause, or individual.
Not at all, this is not the real picture of this universally accepted religion .I am not here to justify any incident or any attack carried out in the last few decades, whilst I condemn the attacks on twin towers ,London Bombings, and the Isis killings. But I also must denounce the attacks carried out by united states on Afghanistan and Iraq where innocent people in huge numbers were massacred . My question is that, Is it justified to bombard a place for one man in Afghanistan including the Television network Of Aljazeera, which was broadcasting the live images of the entire scene and does the apology for the Iraq war by the Bush Administration rationalizethe killings of innocent civilians in Iraq ?Actually the seed of terrorism was sown ,after the vandalism of Iraq and Afghanistan by the so called super power nation ,because injustice gives birth to