Summary
This week's blogpost is about future trends of terrorism.
Terrorism is the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. For decades, terrorism has been linked with muslim people, especially after 9/11. But I do not think that terrorists have any religion, only violence is their religion. I still wonder who are the masterminds behind each attack and what words they use to brainwash young guns in the name of “Zihad” that they forget everything and start man slaughtering drum rolls.
In the past, we have seen these terrorist organisations or states had access to highly advanced weapons like AK47, Eagle guns, hand grenades, suicide bombs. Interestingly, these terrorists or the young men and women are highly educated and belong to well to do families. They are so well organised and precise that their attacks are difficult to predict. Terrorism could grow much worse with terrorists’ access to biological and chemical agents as well as nuclear materials becoming more widespread. As I have mentioned earlier that organisations like Lashkar – E – Tayibba, ISIS employ highly educated and smart agents. However, recently number of terrorist attacks have declined. There could be two reasons behind it : 1 Governments have successfully identified and eradicated the king pins behind the attacks or the demands of these terrorists have been fulfilled. Nonetheless, there is no guarantee that they will not rise again.
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Shamma,
I am glad that you made the point in your blog post that many terrorists are NOT poor and uneducated, as many people think. In fact, it is often exactly the opposite. It remains a mystery (at least to me) why someone who has an education and is not hopeless (as many poor people are in the developing world) would want to take their own lives as a suicide bomber. It is equally mysterious why terrorist groups so often attack innocent civilian groups, planting bombs in urban areas or kidnapping women and young girls. –Professor Wallerstein