What Makes a Terrorist a Terrorist?

[Mit]

It was an example :rolleyes:

[FlyingJesus]

No its down to talking about 9/11.

Which i dont want to discuss for personal reasons.

If you don't want to talk about 9/11 then why did you make a thread about terrorism?

[RbarisR]

But the thing is, I can understand why football hooligans/animal activists would want to protest/ fight each other, but I find it hard to understand why terrorists would want to...

Ill try to say my view on it on an example, e.g. when america went in war with iraq etc they didnt have a good reason even if you claim they did; they tourtured all those people and the iraq government went down as america is powerfull and because of america going in iraq the people there for example who lost there husbands wife and children will want revenge and because of that they decide to bomb places but because they are muslims they will say all muslims are like that so what america does is say look what muslim people done so that is an excuse for them to go to war with more countries, get what i mean? thats my point of view...

[RbarisR]

I think a few of you are fogetting that without the Christian Crusades Britain might not of had the Industrial Revolution therefore we'd be behind in Planes, EVERYTHING.

Without all this technogly I doubt there would be any Britain for the Muslims to come to.

Erm.. there are british muslims... even way back

[luke-p]

No matter what skin colour most terrorists follow the Muslim religion and they are mostly extremists and call there attacks justified, They come here get looked after then repay us by blowing the **** Out of us?

[Mit]

Tbh if you were in America and you saw Americans bombing Britain in the war on terror you'd be pretty annoyed. This still doesnt justify their actions i'm just trying to show their side.

[Corq]

And did you never hear of the time London got bombed in the early 90's. Or the Manchester Bombing?

Them two bombings were worse than the London Tube Bombings.

In terms of loss of life, alot more people died in the Tube Bombings than Manchester.

During works experience I went to this safety presentation thing by these MI5 people, and they talked about Terroist threats these days and how different they are to the days when the IRA were at large. According to them, the IRA never aimed to kill civilians in any of their attacks, hence why they would get someone to ring them up before hand to warn them. They would know if it was a real threat because they will always use a specific code word of some kind.

[Mentor]

terrorst = people who trys to instill terror in a population.
So yea, some animal rights activists are terrorists as are many other groups "/

[Corq]

[B]
Also, I agree that most Terroists are muslims, but there is still alot of Terroist organisations that aren't muslim. i.e the Chechniyans (sp) that attack Russia.

[Mit]

[B]
Also, I agree that most Terroists are muslims, but there is still alot of Terroist organisations that aren't muslim. i.e the Chechniyans (sp) that attack Russia.

That was the worst case of terrorism i have witnessed in my life when they shot down innocent school children in the masses.