The Solution to Global Islamic Terror

Introduction

Terrorism has existed since the beginning of the human civilization. There is no proper definition of the term but its dimensions are diverse and complex. There is a host of factors influencing the belief of terrorism. They are all inter, thus we cannot decide why people eventually engage in terrorist. Terrorism can be loosely defined as the use of illegal and unfair means to powerfully implement the principles at will. Terrorism can be loosely defined as the use of illegal and unfair means to implement the principles at will, thus subjugating the affected to agree to them despite their inappropriateness. In this decade, terrorism began to take a more comprehensive and complete form in the global terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001. Since then, more terrorist attacks continued and terrorism remains the number one threat to the security for many nations and for many years in the future. This type of terrorism knows no boundaries, goals and the culprits are international work from around the world for a common cause, are closely interconnected, and take advantage of the latest technological advances in the media.

Historical Background

The Muslims have been branded as terrorists or extremist more prominently after the 9/11 incident. The modern global community has passed through four significant eras of terrorist activity. The anarchist period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought to overturn the international order. Post-World War II to the mid-1960s saw the liberationist and nationalist motivation for terrorism as many societies strove for political mastery of their destinies. Ideological motivations for terrorist activity, especially of the leftist sort, characterized the 1960s through the late 1980s (Richardson, pp. 78). The latest division has been the religious period, which describes many groups since the late 1980s. In addition, motivations for terrorist activity can range from outrage over social and economic conditions for the attackers to inhuman policy decision making on the part of the terror masters who carry out their attacks.

Martha Crenshaw has surveyed terrorist motivations and mapped its motivation this way: terrorism has certain logic. It can be both effective and satisfying to the terror perpetrators. Robert Pape, studying the worrying trend toward suicide bombers as the weapon of choice in modern terror, describes this as a strategic logic. Although an immediate, existential defeat of its target opponent may not be possible, the terrorist movement is resilient and attractive because at a certain level it is successful, especially against a superior enemy military force (Laqueur, pp. 65). Terrorism is attractive because it works in the right circumstances where other methods have not worked. The apparently unstoppable Oslo Peace Process between Israel and the Palestinians was stalled—perhaps stopped—by a cascading barrage of suicide bomber attacks from several organizations which claimed thousands of Israeli lives. Attacks against Madrid commuter trains in 2004 seemed to convince Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Moreover, such attacks—and suicide bomber attacks are just the most dramatic—are both economic and effective. Relatively small ...