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One-Go Intro
It's been a while since the last visitor came into this page or even reach this section, but who we are gonna blame. Realistically, most of them went for the 'X' button right up there in the corner instead of scrolling down. I know I know, our blog ain't that interesting enough but believe me, we are trying to make the best out of it. The current schedule is quite tight and provide us with limited free hours to produce a masterpiece but I am not going to comment more on that because we have our part to do and so to everyone else.
By the way, what do you guys think about this blog? Ain't good enough or better than yours? Leave a few comments here and there so we can have a guideline to work things out..to provide you with the most updated source you need about this topic.
Talking about the topic...terrorism huh?...SO, it's a little bit too little too late to start off this introduction part but I hope everyone who is reading this already have a few things to say about terrorism. We all ain't born yesterday. The reason we chose this topic in the first place was because this topic means alot to us. It tells us the darker side of the world that we don't see much, but feel it deep inside our heart. Every second that passed by, a life is taken, innocent life. We don't realise it in daily basis but that is reality. Terrorism has been a black spot in mankind history. To clear that spot from the face of earth isn't as easy as taking an eraser to wipe out your writings. It actually means alot worse. To tell you the truth, we can actually see what terrorists are capable of after the incident on September 11. No human could ever forget that day. Parents lost their kids, Husbands lost their wives, and most importantly, we lost our dignity. What's the point of man fighting man and yet the price is something that we can't touch. War would happen and lives would be sacrifice for one's greed.
You know, the hardest part of war isn't watching city blowed off by a bunch of bombs, but is seeing children as young as 17yo leaving their family and fight for someone they do not know. The worse part is, the parents don't even know where their kids are heading to and the next thing they find out, a messenger boy standing in front of their doorstep, telling them that their child died while serving for the country. Harsh? That's life with terrorism. It isn't as easy as it sounds like and isn't as comliplicated as it seems.
I know, your eyes are getting tired after reading all these words by going sideways. But i just wanna sum this up in a really short way. We just want the people out there to realise what is really going on in this world. While we are enjoying the best moment of our lives, someone might be encountering the worse fear of their lives. So, please take a look at these few post that we posted and give your own thoughts so that you can at least understand what I'm really talking about. Or else, you are just another window shopper that ain't found the right one yet.
*to be continued...
Signing off,
kid
By the way, what do you guys think about this blog? Ain't good enough or better than yours? Leave a few comments here and there so we can have a guideline to work things out..to provide you with the most updated source you need about this topic.
Talking about the topic...terrorism huh?...SO, it's a little bit too little too late to start off this introduction part but I hope everyone who is reading this already have a few things to say about terrorism. We all ain't born yesterday. The reason we chose this topic in the first place was because this topic means alot to us. It tells us the darker side of the world that we don't see much, but feel it deep inside our heart. Every second that passed by, a life is taken, innocent life. We don't realise it in daily basis but that is reality. Terrorism has been a black spot in mankind history. To clear that spot from the face of earth isn't as easy as taking an eraser to wipe out your writings. It actually means alot worse. To tell you the truth, we can actually see what terrorists are capable of after the incident on September 11. No human could ever forget that day. Parents lost their kids, Husbands lost their wives, and most importantly, we lost our dignity. What's the point of man fighting man and yet the price is something that we can't touch. War would happen and lives would be sacrifice for one's greed.
You know, the hardest part of war isn't watching city blowed off by a bunch of bombs, but is seeing children as young as 17yo leaving their family and fight for someone they do not know. The worse part is, the parents don't even know where their kids are heading to and the next thing they find out, a messenger boy standing in front of their doorstep, telling them that their child died while serving for the country. Harsh? That's life with terrorism. It isn't as easy as it sounds like and isn't as comliplicated as it seems.
I know, your eyes are getting tired after reading all these words by going sideways. But i just wanna sum this up in a really short way. We just want the people out there to realise what is really going on in this world. While we are enjoying the best moment of our lives, someone might be encountering the worse fear of their lives. So, please take a look at these few post that we posted and give your own thoughts so that you can at least understand what I'm really talking about. Or else, you are just another window shopper that ain't found the right one yet.
*to be continued...
Signing off,
kid
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Religious View on Terrorism
Religious terrorists
- Christian
- Islamist
- Jewish
- Sikh
Religious role in the terrorist attack of 911
Religious prevention – maintain the sense of significance by declaring certain things as being off limits.
Religious support – help people to feel that they are not alone in their struggle.
Religious purification – ritual purification as a coping method to people distresses by terrorist act.
Religious reframing – enable the individual to reinterpret (reframe) things so that the sense of meaning and significance is maintained.
Example : if the negative events take on a new meaning, and perhaps even become an opportunity to grow.
- Christian
- Islamist
- Jewish
- Sikh
Religious role in the terrorist attack of 911
Religious prevention – maintain the sense of significance by declaring certain things as being off limits.
Religious support – help people to feel that they are not alone in their struggle.
Religious purification – ritual purification as a coping method to people distresses by terrorist act.
Religious reframing – enable the individual to reinterpret (reframe) things so that the sense of meaning and significance is maintained.
Example : if the negative events take on a new meaning, and perhaps even become an opportunity to grow.
Terrorism Arguments
The context in which terrorist tactics are used is often a large-scale, unresolved political conflict. The type of conflict varies widely: historical examples include:
a) secession of a territory to form a new sovereign state (IRA, PIRA and SLA)
b) dominance of territory or resources by various ethnic groups (Hammer skins(White Supremarsists))
c) imposition of a particular form of government, such as democracy, theocracy or anarchy (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia(FARC))
Terrorism is a form of asymmetric warfare, and is more common when direct conventional warfare either cannot be (due to differentials in available forces) or is not being use to resolve the underlying conflict.
In some cases, the rationale for a terrorist attack may be uncertain (as in many attacks for which no group or individual claims responsibility) or unrelated to any large-scale social conflict (such as the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by Aum Shinrikyo).
A global research report An Inclusive World prepared by an international team of researchers from all countries has analysed causes of present day terrorism. It has reached the conclusions that terrorism all over the world functions like an economic market. There is demand for terrorist placed by greed or grievances. Supply is driven by relative deprivation resulting in triple deficits – developmental deficit, democratic deficit and dignity deficit. Acts of terror take place at the point of intersection between supply and demand. Those placing the demand use religion and other denominators as vehicles to establish links with those on the supply side. This pattern cab be observed in all situations ranging from Colombia to Colombo and the Philippines to the Palestine.
a) secession of a territory to form a new sovereign state (IRA, PIRA and SLA)
b) dominance of territory or resources by various ethnic groups (Hammer skins(White Supremarsists))
c) imposition of a particular form of government, such as democracy, theocracy or anarchy (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia(FARC))
Terrorism is a form of asymmetric warfare, and is more common when direct conventional warfare either cannot be (due to differentials in available forces) or is not being use to resolve the underlying conflict.
In some cases, the rationale for a terrorist attack may be uncertain (as in many attacks for which no group or individual claims responsibility) or unrelated to any large-scale social conflict (such as the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by Aum Shinrikyo).
A global research report An Inclusive World prepared by an international team of researchers from all countries has analysed causes of present day terrorism. It has reached the conclusions that terrorism all over the world functions like an economic market. There is demand for terrorist placed by greed or grievances. Supply is driven by relative deprivation resulting in triple deficits – developmental deficit, democratic deficit and dignity deficit. Acts of terror take place at the point of intersection between supply and demand. Those placing the demand use religion and other denominators as vehicles to establish links with those on the supply side. This pattern cab be observed in all situations ranging from Colombia to Colombo and the Philippines to the Palestine.
Terrorism Introduction
What Is A Terrorist?
What do you know about terrorist?
1. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
2. One who leads an armed group that kills civilians as a means of political intimidation -- unless he terrorizes Haitians while on the CIA-payroll, as did 1990s death squad leader Emmanuel Constant, in which case the U.S. refuses to extradite him to Haiti, even after Sept. 11, 2001.
3. One who targets civilian airliners and ships -- unless he blows up a Cuban civilian airliner, killing 73 people, and fires at a Polish freighter, like Orlando Bosch, in which case he is coddled and paroled by the Bush Justice Department in 1990, and his extradition is blocked.
4. One who leads a group that engages in kidnapping and murder -- unless the victims are Hondurans attacked by CIA-backed death squad Battalion 316, in which case Battalion architect Gustavo Alvarez becomes a Pentagon consultant, while the then-ambassador to Honduras who downplayed the terror, John Negroponte, is appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations days after Sept. 11.
5. One who uses rape and murder for political purposes -- unless the victims are four U.S. church women sexually assaulted and killed in 1980 by members of El Salvador’s U.S.-backed military, in which case excuses and distortions pour forth from then-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (“these nuns were not just nuns; they were also political activists”) and Secretary of State Al Haig (the nuns “may have tried to run a roadblock”).
6. One who designates civilians as “soft targets” to be attacked in the cause of political transformation -- unless the targets are Nicaraguans killed by Contra guerrillas armed and directed by the U.S who, according to Human Rights Watch, “systematically engage in violent abuses…so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.”
7. One who facilitates a massacre of civilians -- unless the victims are 900 Palestinians shot and hacked to death in the Sabra and Shatila camps by Lebanese Christian militia as Israeli soldiers stood guard, in which case Israel’s then-Defense Minster (now Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon remains a U.S. “War on Terrorism” ally after being censured as indirectly responsible for the massacre by an Israeli commission of inquiry.
What do you know about terrorist?
1. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
2. One who leads an armed group that kills civilians as a means of political intimidation -- unless he terrorizes Haitians while on the CIA-payroll, as did 1990s death squad leader Emmanuel Constant, in which case the U.S. refuses to extradite him to Haiti, even after Sept. 11, 2001.
3. One who targets civilian airliners and ships -- unless he blows up a Cuban civilian airliner, killing 73 people, and fires at a Polish freighter, like Orlando Bosch, in which case he is coddled and paroled by the Bush Justice Department in 1990, and his extradition is blocked.
4. One who leads a group that engages in kidnapping and murder -- unless the victims are Hondurans attacked by CIA-backed death squad Battalion 316, in which case Battalion architect Gustavo Alvarez becomes a Pentagon consultant, while the then-ambassador to Honduras who downplayed the terror, John Negroponte, is appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations days after Sept. 11.
5. One who uses rape and murder for political purposes -- unless the victims are four U.S. church women sexually assaulted and killed in 1980 by members of El Salvador’s U.S.-backed military, in which case excuses and distortions pour forth from then-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (“these nuns were not just nuns; they were also political activists”) and Secretary of State Al Haig (the nuns “may have tried to run a roadblock”).
6. One who designates civilians as “soft targets” to be attacked in the cause of political transformation -- unless the targets are Nicaraguans killed by Contra guerrillas armed and directed by the U.S who, according to Human Rights Watch, “systematically engage in violent abuses…so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.”
7. One who facilitates a massacre of civilians -- unless the victims are 900 Palestinians shot and hacked to death in the Sabra and Shatila camps by Lebanese Christian militia as Israeli soldiers stood guard, in which case Israel’s then-Defense Minster (now Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon remains a U.S. “War on Terrorism” ally after being censured as indirectly responsible for the massacre by an Israeli commission of inquiry.
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