Many terrorist groups are inspired by religious or prophetic scriptures. Al-Qaeda and IS are the two groups that are related to justify their extreme actions against non believers. The IS wants to establish a Caliphate which means an Islamic-ruled state. How different terrorist groups act is informed by what they are trying to achieve. The IS, al-Qaeda and the Army of God ( a Christian anti-abortion group based in the U.S. sometimes adopt a reactionary perspective aimed at stopping or resisting social, economic, and political charges.
Terrorism uses violence to solve their problems, which spreads panic over society. Using fear in order to gain power is a common method, but in terms of moral correctness, no religion can justify the murdering of large masses of people. Life is precious and religion, especially Christianity, emphasis how valuable life is. It takes a corrupt conscious for a person to believe that killing others will solve ones problems, just like it takes a corrupt conscious to believe it is right to justify enslaving a race of people and treating them
A thorough analysis of deadly lone wolf cases in the United States since 2009 shows the significant factors that contribute to radicalization in each incident. Lone wolf terrorism is arguably the most widely used method of terrorism in today’s world. Based on the six cases listed above, individuals actively sought out ISIS and or Islamic ideologies. While there are plethora of propaganda and right wing views available online, the individual plays a significant part in this exchange. The facts presented about the cases suggest that ISIS and other Islamic ideologies influenced these individuals to commit acts of terror against the United States.
Lance Leroy Mrs. Weatherup 5th Period 17 Nov. 2014 Isis Terrorist Group Topic#1 Isis is a very popular terrorist group that is going around the world threatening and killing thousands of innocent people. The purpose of this paper, is to explore the inside of Isis and whether or not it is a faith based terrorist organization. Isis was formed a long time ago before it became a big threat towards the U.S.
1. Introduction The topic of this essay is on Forman and his approach to medicine. To start, I will explain Ficino’s approaches to medicine. Following Ficino, I will explain Galen and Paracelsus’ views on medicine.
The results of the study show that there are many factors that contribute to the rise of lone wolf terrorist attacks in the United States. The lone wolf influence that stems from ISIS and Islamic ideologies is enough to get potential wolves thinking about the idea of risking their lives for their beliefs. ISIS contributes to an increase in lone wolf attacks by exploiting vulnerable individuals and preying on their emotions. There is no doubt that there is an emotional connection that exists between wolves and their beliefs. ISIS has continuously used the vulnerabilities of others to carry out what seems to be revenge.
A suicide attacker is someone who undertakes a terrorist attack knowing that he or she will die in the attack. Robert J Brym, a professor at the University of Toronto and a leading authority on the politics of intellectuals, focuses much of his studies on suicide bombers in places like Israel and Palestine. In Brym’s research he concluded “on the events precipitating suicide bombings, the motivations of suicide bombers, and the rationales of the organizations that support suicide bombings shows that Palestinian suicide missions are in most cases prompted less by strategic cost-benefit calculations than by such human emotions as revenge and retaliation.” A particular instance that gained a lot of publicity and coverage was the suicide bombing done by Hanadi Jaradat killing 20 people and wounding dozens of others. On October 4 of 2003, the 29-year-old lawyer detonated her belt of plastic explosives in Maxim restaurant in Haifa in Israel.
The Islamic religion factor convinces its followers through the words of Muhammad that they are martyrs who will go to paradise. “Narrated By Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah’s cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostles, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr). Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind any army unit going for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allah’s cause and then made alive, and then martyred and then made alive, and then again martyred in His cause.” (Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 35.) Bombers have also been instilled with pure hatred towards the Western population, perhaps even hatred concerning themselves and their own religion.
Agents of radicalization are factors and motives that lead a person to engage in terrorist activity. These can include anything from strong religious identities to internal conflicts within their own particular culture – the possibilities are endless. When analyzing the background of a terrorist suspect, identifying the factors that lead to their radicalized behavior is one of the most difficult aspects to solidify. Like the agents of radicalization, the steps of radicalization vary from individual to individual; however, experts in the field have created generalized models to depict the process. One of these models was created by the NYPD and attempts to break down homegrown radicalization into four categories: pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihad .
As the U.S. takes care of its online antagonistic against the ISIS Terror attack, U.S. military software engineers are as of now breaking into the PCs of individual ISIS warriors. “Once inside the machines, these software engineers are implanting contaminations and vindictive programming that allow them to burrow their contraptions for learning, for instance, names of people and their contacts, furthermore bits of information into the social affair's orchestrates, the powers said, chatting on condition of anonymity to portray sensitive operations”. Some may say hacking through ISIS's PCs is not ethically right but rather it really is great to do as a result of the fighting that we confront with restricting dangers. Through Kantian deontology
The Islamic Fundamentalist Age of Terror From the time the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina to spread Islam across the region there has always been a strain of fundamentalism in the tapestry of the Islamic world. One of the precepts of Islam is jihad which literally means “struggle” but which has different practical meanings for various Muslims. In the vernacular of fundamental Muslims of today, the concept of jihad is aligned with a violent struggle against the West in an attempt to bring about a universal Islamic state. “The “modern” fundamentalism of 100 years ago emerged as the Arab and Muslim world faced the bitter truth: they had lagged behind global development” (Gerstenfeld 2014).
Their claim that they attack innocent people to serve their God grants them a greater moral justification to be excessively violent and take more lives than any other motive. Whereas secular terrorists typically target certain political or ethnic groups, religious terrorists get to annihilate nearly anyone because most do not share their radical religious beliefs (Hoffman 215). Since their victims are not followers of their faith, violent extremists can dehumanize them as being unhuman or unworthy of life, and further diminish ethical restrictions on how much brutality they can inflict (Hoffman 216). Religion was undeniably a major aspect of the violent events discussed in this paragraph, but it would be untruthful to say that the just cause of serving a faith was the primary motivation for causing the incredibly unjust sufferings and deaths resulting from these
TERRORIST RECRUITMENT: More Successful and Increased Reach Due to Advancement in Technology Recruitment for terrorist organizations is extremely important for them to be successful in achieving their goals. Without replenishing those who have been killed, incarcerated, or defected, without recruitment terrorist organizations would not last long. Over the years, terrorist recruitment has become more successful and the area of recruitment has expanded due to the advancement in technology. Terrorist organizations have adapted their message over the years to continue to motivate and entice people to either sympathize with their cause or to join the cause in one aspect or another. They have learned how to counteract cultural issues in different countries with the new technology, such as using video games as a recruitment tool to attract younger people.
It has also been reported by experts that even though bombers are not necessarily willing to blow their selves up, they are willing to blow their selves up for their greater cause (s). “It is not a coincidence that suicide terrorist organizations tend to describe themselves as the champions of their own national, ethnic or religious groups, volunteers for suicide missions consider their death as a sacrifice for the sake of their own community, and terrorist propaganda try to promote this idea among their own reference community” (Ibanez, 2014, p.
One example linking Islam to terror and violence would be the Oklahoma City Bombing that took place on an American government building, April 19 1995, which killed, many innocent people including children. This is then, followed by how stereotypical and how fast assumptions are made towards the Muslim community as discussed by Patel (1999) stating that a British newspaper front cover of, Today, emerged the following day with a picture of a fireman carrying a dead baby with the headline, “In the name of Islam.” Later it was then established that Christian militants had in fact carried out the bombing. From this issue, it clearly shows a trend on how Islam is misrepresented and assumed as being evil, just by a short headline and a picture of a fireman carrying a dead baby. It is a form of language, a sign or message in which they are trying to imply to the masses that Islam is killing innocent people in the name of God
