Thursday, December 13, 2007

Terrorism





Terrorism in the modern sense is violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians for political or other ideological goals. Terrorism has been used by a broad array of political organizations,both right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic, and religious groups, revolutionaries and ruling governments. If we look at the list of terror acts, we'd see thousands terror acts and that means that no part of the world is safe from the effects of terrorism. International terorism is a serious threat for the security of each state.
Many opinions exist concerning the causes of terrorism. They range from demographic to socioeconomic to political factors. Demographic factors may include high growth rates. Socioeconomic factors may include poverty, unemployment, and land problems. Political factors may include disenfranchisement, ethnic conflict, religious conflict, territorial conflict, access to resources, or even revenge.
It is said that there is no personaliy of terrorists, but I can give you some words from coran: “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a believing people”. As far as we know, most terrorists feel that they are doing nothing wrong when they kill and injure people, or damage property. Most seem to share a feature of a psychological condition known as anti-social personality disorder or psychopathic personality disorder, which is an absence of empathy for the suffering of others - they don’t feel other people’s pain. However, they do not appear unstable or mentally ill. The behaviour of Nezar Hindawi, a freelance Jordanian terrorist is very similar to that of those diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorder. In April 1986 he sent his pregnant Irish girlfriend on an El Al flight to Israel, saying they would be married when he joined her there. She apparently was not aware that Hindawi had hidden a bomb provided by the Abu Nidal Organization in her luggage. Hindawi's willingness to sacrifice his girlfriend and unborn child displays an exceptional lack of empathy. A common, but by no means universal feature of terrorists, is a type of simplistic thinking in which 'I am good and right. You are bad and wrong.' It is a very polarised thinking which allows them to distance themselves from opponents and makes it easier for them to kill people who are connected with their enemies, with apparently little or no sense of remorse or guilt. This is not a lack of intelligence however. Many terrorists are of above average intelligence. But in fact there is no evidence of any particular personality type of terrorists.
And finally I would like to give one example. The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on October 23, 2002 by about 40 armed Chechen Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR) militants who claimed allegiance to the separatist movement in Chechnya. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. After a two-and-a-half day siege, Russian OSNAZ forces pumped an unknown chemical agent into the building's ventilation system and raided it. Officially, 39 of the terrorists were killed by Russian forces, along with at least 129 of the hostages (nine of them foreigners). Some estimates have put the civilian death toll at more than 200.

2 comments:

janina said...

This was really intereesting to read. I liked that you gave many examples and even cited Koran..:)

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