Disclaimer: Please don’t think that this is an emotional ranting,
just literary work with what I think is the truth, and don’t go for
booking me under sedition ;)
Here, I just give a philosophical
overview of what terrorism is, rather than the static, dates events and
definitions in its correct form… this essay may look as if a conspiracy theory,
rather than a standard textbook styled one…
I am sorry, but this is it J
Terrorism
UN definition
Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of
terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for
political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the
considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic,
religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them
USA definitions
FBI definition: "the unlawful use of force
or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government,
the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or
social objectives
Defense Department definition:
"The unlawful use of violence or threat of violence to instil fear and coerce
governments or societies. Terrorism is often motivated by religious, political,
or other ideological beliefs and committed in the pursuit of goals that are
usually political.
US State dept
"Premeditated, politically motivated violence
perpetrated against non-combatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine
agents
But rather than this,
Terrorism is just a way of political
expression, a diplomatic tool and a way of life, (may be like
business) for different group of people.
For a few
who are inspired by twisted religious quoting by clerics of different
religions, they feel as if they are obliged to do so… they constitute the
minority of terrorists, who are in itself a minority…
The major
chunk of terrorists are belonging to the second category, the groups which are
simply an outfit like ‘intelligence wing’ or ‘special force’ etc etc, specially
trained group, who strike over the opponent nations of the country by which
they are appointed, and which comes in media lime light with (western) media
outcry. These groups are so well trained, equipped and camouflaged that the
public never correctly understand to whom they are working for, not to mention
the media and the way they twist the realities.
And the
third group of terrorists could be re grouped in to two- a richer group who are
doing ‘business’ through ‘investments’ and a bunch of poor who take to the guns
knowing that they are going to die and thinking that their family would be
hence safe…
These all
groups constitute the terrorist fraternity of the world, but only the poor from
the third group and the first group in total are called terrorists + the field
work team of the second group, who are (deliberately) misrepresented by media
as belonging to the first group.
The term ‘terrorism’
comes from a French word terrorisme (meaning I frighten, representing
reign of terror period) which was used to represent the state terrorism and the
funny part is that in present world definitions, ‘state terrorism’ do not come
under ‘terrorism’!!!
There is
another group of people, who are also being called as terrorists… the group of
people who fight for the dignity of themselves and their family, who fight for
the justice which was not given to them and those who have done the injustice (the
institutions which have done the injustice, to be technically correct) still
not ready to apologize for what they have done in the past… these group of
people could be found along the borders of many nations including our own… (We
could see every sort of above mentioned terrorists along our border, to be
frank)
The problem
in dealing with terrorism is simple- One man’s terrorist is another man’s
freedom fighter
This is the
deadlock where many intellectuals stumble and confuse whether a person to be
called a terrorist or not…
At this
point ‘patriotism’ or the ‘civilized’ form of life comes in to picture and with
the help of one of this tool or both, the so called ‘intellectuals’ draw in front
of us who be called a terrorist, and we the public, are supposed to believe
what they mumble to please few others…
As a human,
we all belong to the single species, yet, we all fight each other, hate each
other, and even kill each other without even knowing why we are doing these
things… we are being brain washed, tuned and demoralized by many ‘institutions’
around us which proclaim that they stand for humanity, justice and upliftment…
the organizations which are meant to unite us drew more borders between us
(because it is handled by unworthy hands)… the religions which are here to
bring peace to our minds made us restless (due to the wrong way it is taught)…
and we live in a world, where we give importance for patriotism in an almost
negative way… the only way to end terrorism may be to dethrone the institutions
which have drawn borders geographically as well as in our hearts, and to have a
world where we know that we all are brothers and sisters, and not just people
of different countries and groups within that…
