Ever wondered why there's so much terrorism in the world? What feeds and sustains terrorism? Who is responsible, and what can we do to rid the world of terrorism?
To date, other than the dropping of nuclear bombs by the United States to end World War II, there have been no acts of nuclear attack or nuclear terrorism. Nuclear terrorism is an act of terrorism in which a terrorist organization detonates a nuclear device. The possibility of terrorist orga...
They are influenced primarily by the views of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian political and fundamentalist ideolog, in the book Ma'alim Fiat-Thariq (Signs Towards Straight Path). The main idea of this book is the declaration of absolute power of Allah (al- hakimiyyah) through the doctrine of la...
Crime is usually encouraged by financial gain, while terrorism has been primarily motivated by philosophy such as Maoism, Marxism, or theological ideologies. According to John R. Wagley, "terrorists are increasingly seen as supporting themselves through criminal activity, because a growing number...
Since terrorists generally challenge the monopoly of violence of the state and its ability to protect its citizens, terrorist acts obtain polit- ical significance even when the motivation for them is not primarily political but religious, criminal or psychopathological. In a political conflict, the ...
Thus, this offence is punishable in the court of law.39 The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the LOS Convention) defines that piracy ‘consists of any of the following acts: (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for ...
departure of just war theory and, indeed, of any plausibleethics of war. Since it is the soldiers who put the civilians’ life and limb in danger, itis only fair that they should accept some risk in order to minimize that danger.20Now our repugnance of terrorism is generated, primarily, ...
Where left-wing terrorists focused primarily on economic and political causes, many of today's right-wing terrorists, like those accused of the 9/11 attacks, are driven by religious zealotry (Laqueur, 1999). Thus, technological advances come at a time when right-wing fanatical terrorism is ...
In March 2017, the UK government launched ACT: Action Counters Terrorism, an updated "branding platform" for its "counter-terrorist" efforts. US In 2021 the FBI was using "counter-terrorists" to investigate people voicing their opinions on a variety of topics - primarily opponents of mask and...
in the soul of every terrorist or mass shooter or anybody who feels a need to express himself through violent slaughter is a festering grievance that the world simply is not giving him what he is due. Whether this grievance is primarily personal or collective, or a little of both, may not...