Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Pan-Islamic Terrorism Essay

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These fundamentalist thinkers then teach these disparities to followers, who can and often do attempt to elicit change through acts of terrorism. Terrorism grows out of misinformation and exaggeration but the fundamental ideas of it are correct, the democratization and capitalization of other nations often leads to a transitional breakdown of systems that have been in place and respected for centuries, regardless of their effectiveness. Immorality, as these transitions are often reflective of, by fundamental and even moderate Islamic standards is often seen as a symptom of Western proliferation and the deliberate destruction of Islam, by Western foreign nations. It would seem from an outside point-of-view that Western foreign policy tends to ignore indigenous traditions that are not a part of the democratic and capitalist agenda, further feeding the problem or ideological difference. (Preble, 2004, p. 7)

3. Terrorist organizations are quickly adapting to advances in mass media and Web technology. Explain how groups like Al Qaeda exploit this new technology to spread their message.

Terrorism in the last ten years has embraced modern technology as a way to perpetrate a new breed of crime, as well as to feed their particular movement's agenda. The internet is utilized as a tool that helps them gain funds and followers through illicit and legitimate means.

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The tool is also used to help spread the ideologies they preach, with the particular of anonymity being a helpful aspect of the technology as it allows web presence to remain covert when need be. The tool is also effective as a tool for terrorists because it is prolific and in many ways international, especially in Western powers and it allows individual and terrorist organizations to reach far flung members and recruits with their message as well as plan and/or celebrate international terrorist acts and events. Additionally it is very difficult to suppress information on the internet for technical and well as ideological reasons and therefore censorship seems to be out of the question. At least one expert believes that an intellectual war of sorts is the only manner in which the Western states and all those who use the internet for peaceful progress will win the media back. Reducing illegitimate claims to their lowest common denominator through intelligent attacks on them, rather than attempting to censor the internet, ineffectually and unnecessarily, which Lewis believes will cause more problems for legitimate users than the few who use it to proliferate ideas that spread the ideology of terrorism. (Lewis, 2005, (http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task, view/id,523/).....

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