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Who is responsible for terrorism ?

Harriet03 · 41-45, F
Religion! It's been going on for millennia 🤷‍♀️
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@basilfawlty89 The point you made earlier regarding adhering to beliving in something is true. How ever that doesn't include submit or die, eternal damnation etc.
Which both religion and Nazism did/do! 🤷‍♀️
That IS the point!!!
Which you failed to grasp. 🤷‍♀️
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@Harriet03 lol whatever, everyone adheres to an ideology in some way, yourself included. I know it's cool acting like an edgy teen atheist and blaming everything on religion, but not everything is about religion.
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@basilfawlty89 Both death cults!!
Pretensous of you to assume I'm a atheist?!
nedkelly · 61-69, M
Religious fanatics - example Muslims

I have never seen a buddhist terrorist
@Soossie Agreed. Terrorism actually isn't usually based on religion at all.
@quitwhendone

I know, as I said in my answer, terrorism is a chain of greed, politicians and ignorance
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Soossie
Doesn't radicalism ussually spring for the idea that a group of people [i](or an individual ussually belong to a group identity)[/i] believe that their life or way of life is threatened on an excistential level. And because they believe, feel or experience that thread to be real they justify using violence. And that the small group of that innitial group that move to actually take up arms are the extremists.

And then even if you are an extremist, ussually on the international stage you only become a terrorist once your violence is aimed at non-combatants and targets you can't legitimise as being part of the system that causes you to grab to arms.

This btw, can actually happen with annyone that feels threatened and want to restore their way of life/liberties.

- Ecological terrorism, where groups believe to fight an enemy that destroys their habitat
- Communist terrorism, where groups believe to fight capitalists that destroy the liberties of those that sell their labor
- Fascist terrorism, where groups believe to fight an enemy that threatens the purity of their group (mainly liberalism and it's progressions)
- Religious groups that feel threatened by secularism or feel that we can only live a virtuous life if the state is controlled by God
...

I actually don't know anny terrorist group that uses "greed" a motivation for terror. Politicians are only the spokespersons of groups that feel this excistential thread and that call for violent sollutions. They do bolster the movements by advancing their way of looking at things in the public discourse. "Ignorance" can be used as a label to define certain terrorists, but it's not nescessary. A slave rebellion (for instance) can get pretty wild and kill off non-combatants and be labeled "terrorists", but I think we can find good arguments why slaves see their life as being excistentially threatened by their masters. I think it's pretty strange to call someone that rebels against their master as a slave "ingorant", that doesn't mean the slave-rebellion can apply terror.
DiegoWolfe · 36-40
terrorists...
SW-User
Injustice.
Whether true or perceived; that's is the root of terrorism.
It is a chain of Greed, politicians, and ignorance...
SW-User
Many are saying religion.

But what about ETA the Basque separatists, that wasn't religiously motivated.

The IRA was about politics not religion, although religious is part of it but it was not about religious policies. Now arguably Ireland is less Catholic (politically) than NI.
Quizzical · 46-50, M
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It depends which side of the fence you are sat on.
xixgun · M
Fucking nutjobs.

I think the 3 answers you've received really cover it completely
TexChik · F
Not all Muslims are terrorists , but all terrorists are Muslim .
It is simply due to the lack of a nation to have a capable military.

To exert influence, they utilize asymmetrical warfare techniques such as organized terrorism.
SW-User
@questionWeaver what about internal terrorism, ETA, IRA, Red Army Faction etc
@SW-User good point ... same ... they lack a military so they utilize asymmetrical warfare
SW-User
wintersecret · 41-45, M
Religious Mis-Beliefs.
Gun Industry
Greedy Politicians
TexChik · F
@wintersecret Gun industry ? Are you daft ? Do spoons make fat people fat ?
Chevy454 · 46-50, M
Achmed The Dead Terrorist!!!
ExtremeNext · 31-35
Religion
It's the evil of the world
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SW-User
Whoever's making squillions from arms sales
Anyone who's goal is to instill fear in another.
Terrorists. Duh!
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
Extremists preachers both religious and non religious, social alienation in our society and greedy corrupt politicians and institutions.

 
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