Combating Terrorism
MUSLIM GRIEVANCES In so far as the Muslim world is concerned, the root cause of terrorism are not difficult to trace. For centuries, the world of Islam has undergone...
Combating Terrorism
MUSLIM GRIEVANCES There is no justification for taking and preaching extreme positions, and no religion provides a basis for such attitudes. All religions preach toleran...
Combating Terrorism
In so far as the long-term goals of organizations employing terrorist tactics are concerned, writes Weinberg, these include revolutionary, ethno-nationalistic and separatist, religious and reactionary...
Combating Terrorism
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. In some respects, what is known as terrorism in contemporary jargon predates by millennia the modern term used to describe it. This is not to say that the act of ter...
Combating Terrorism
The religious roots of terrorism can be traced back to the Sicarii – a Jewish Zealots group that was active during the Roman occupation of first century Middle East. The famous weapon of the Sicarii,...
Combating Terrorism
The English word 'terrorism' is derived from the regime de la terreur that prevailed in France from 1793-1794. Originally an instrument of the state, the regime was designed to consolidate t...
Combating Terrorism
The Narodnaya Volya (NV) was the one that first put Pisacane’s thesis into practice. They were a Russian populist group that was formed in 1878 to oppose the Tsarist regime. The group’s most fam...
Combating Terrorism
The involvement of non-state groups in terrorism that emerged in the wake of the Second World War is an open reality. The immediate focus of such activity shifted from Europe to that of the continent’...