Poverty and the Exploitation of Weaknesses in Terrorist Organizations

Abstract

This discussion will analyze the manner in which terrorist organizations exploit weakness and poverty while exploring the dynamics through which such exploitations occurs. The perpetrators of terrorist activities come from the same streets and houses from which the victims come. Terrorist organizations focus in on individuals who suffer the worst that the unstable society in question has to dish out. In essence, it would not be unfair to surmise that such people are made to serve as the smaller cogs in the larger engine of destruction and terrorism. Terrorist organizations use the exploitation of weakness and poverty as deterrents in order to keep people from leaving the organization. The individuals are subjected to a steady and meticulously planned brain washing that completely removes the little respect for morals and principles that is alive in them. Terrorist organizations incite fear and hatred amongst the masses by throwing the first blow and then stepping back to let poverty and weakness drive the stakeholders into conflict. Terrorist organizations take control of the region's problems and takes measures to resolve them in order to function as the governing authority. Terrorist organizations give the promise of revenge and retribution to those who have lost their families and loved ones. The overall situation is worsened by the cyclical nature of the impacts of terrorism activities.

Poverty and the Exploitation of Weaknesses in Terrorist Organizations

Introduction

The exploitation of poverty and weakness by terrorist organizations is becoming a frequently discussed, debated and researched subject as the need to understand the underlying factors of terrorism continues to increase. This discussion will analyze the manner in which terrorist organizations exploit weakness and poverty while exploring the dynamics through which such exploitations occurs. The discussion will consider exploitation practices to be a function that is regular in terrorist organizations and analyze how this function fits into the larger picture.

In addition, the discussion will also give relevance to the manner in which the exploitation of weakness and poverty allows terrorist organizations to sustain operations. In this context, the discussion will shed light on the manner in which exploitation of weakness and poverty remains a consistent characteristic in terrorist organizations. The thesis assertion of this essay is that terrorist organizations exploit poverty and weakness in order to get their dirty work done.

Discussion & Analyses

As terrorist organizations continue to develop new and improved methods to carry out their damaging activities, it becomes increasingly imperative to generate an adequate understanding of the way in which they work (Orsini, 2012; Fuchs, 2012). As the war against terrorism continues to rage around the world, one end of the equation is the response to terrorist activities while the other end is the sources through which terrorists fund and mans their plans. While a controversy riddled debate continues on the forces that continue to give birth to (and direct) terrorist organizations, the manning of such organizations generally comes from modern day society (Abdulraheem & Oladipo, 2010; Monshipouri, 2012). The perpetrators of terrorist activities come ...