Terrorism: An Introduction and Refutation Term Paper

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Before "individual murders" were used to terrorize "Westerners" and their "lackeys" into submission. (White, 2002, p.114) These individuals were not "inflamed" with a specific revolutionary passion, a la Che Guevara, but possessed of a more diffuse anger, with a nostalgic gaze upon the past, paradise like structure of Islamic unreality. But unlike the 'tupamaros' the fear such terrorism instigates in people is not the fear of walking the street everyday. These new factors influence the urban model by making fear both more diffuse, and also more concentrated not upon every day events, but on travel and upon respected institutions.

In the new model, what seems most safe and impregnable, like governmental and financial institutions, now seem most destabilized, reducing the overall level of confidence in the structures and institutions of governance and one's system of life. The tupamaros saw social violence as a way of enacting social change -- the "only way." (White, 2002, p.114) but violence is not leverage in these new institutions of terrorism, but has a new and personal weight of hatred that extends beyond political objectives and has a religious fervor.

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Of course, there are certain local support structures must terrorists have regardless of their organizational philosophy and diffuseness of location. To be protected, terrorists must have community support -- even unwitting community support. But because the new terrorism is often unwittingly supported by the American government's liberalism, such as a willingness to grant visas and educational opportunities to foreigners of diverse populations, religious affiliations, and backgrounds in the name of diversity, terrorists feel less aligned to the community they temporarily become a part of, and thus are less inclined to grant it mercy, by releasing hostages, like the tupamaros did (White, 2002, p.129) the active freedom of America is seen as stupidity, and proof of its open and dangerously liberal nature, rather than a potential, still existing community tie between terrorists and victims. The new terrorism is an international urban terrorism, rather than enclosed within a city or a region, or even confined by a specific ideology, as Islam is a diffuse religion in its theology….....

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