Should we accept terrorism as a fact of life

[davdi]

[Mr. Blackwell]

Terrorism IS a fact of life. So is poverty and wealth and pedophilia and medical malpractice and love and hate and politics and religion and corruption and kindness and selfless sacrifice and charity and blindness and cancer and science and laughter and tears and dialogue and demagogues and sunshine and rain and heartache and toothache and happiness and life and death.

Should we accept any of these things? What choice do we have?

We fight against the things we don't like. That's what we do. I do not like terrorism, however I do accept that it IS a part of life, but I will fight against it's influence and practice as much as I can...in all of it's forms as I see it.

[eyeshaveit]

Taliban Target Scholars of Islam

?The reason the Taliban resort to such acts is that they want to make sure their legitimacy is not questioned by the sermons of these [religious scholars]?

?The only thing that undermines their legitimacy is the ability and power of these [religious scholars] if they preach and argue against them, only they can challenge the Taliban?s ideology, not the liberal scholars or others, and the Taliban understand that.?

Complete article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/world/asia/uptick-in-killing-of-religious-scholars-as-taliban-look-to-curtail-their-influence.html?_r=0

[eyeshaveit]

Exclusive: Manchester suicide bomber used student loan and benefits (?7,000) to fund terror plot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/26/exclusive-manchester-suicide-bomber-used-student-loan-benefits/

[Dexter]

were the "Sons of Liberty" terrorists?

[eyeshaveit]

Radical jihadists are:

Terrorists ?
All patriots ?
Power hungry ?
Religious zealots ?
Immature gamers ?
Unfulfilled warriors ?

[kevin]

were the "Sons of Liberty" terrorists?

the answer is yes.

The Sons of Liberty popularized the use of tar and feathering to punish and humiliate offending government officials starting in 1767. This method was also, used against British Loyalists, during the American Revolution. This punishment had long been used by sailors to punish their mates.[10]

In Boston, another example of violence could be found in their treatment of local stamp distributor Andrew Oliver. They burned his effigy in the streets. When he did not resign, they escalated to burning down his office building. Even after he resigned, they almost destroyed the whole house of his close associate Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. It is believed that the Sons of Liberty did this to excite the lower classes and get them actively involved in rebelling against the authorities. Their actions made many of the stamp distributors resign in fear.

if the malcontents are on your side, they are called partisans, freedom fighters, activists, patriots, and guerrillas. if they are on the other side, they are called terrorists, militants, murderers, anarchists, and so on.

the key definition of terrorism, IMO, is the use of violence in a non-combat setting to achieve goals that cannot be reached through available legal means.

[Inertialmass]

Most histories of terrorism begin with Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_terrorism#History

According to a paper authored by then Center for Defense Information research analyst Mark Burgess, the 1st century Jewish political and religious movement called Zealotry was one of the first examples of the use of terrorism by Jews. They sought to incite the people of Judaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from Israel by force of arms. The term Zealot, in Hebrew kanai, means one who is zealous on behalf of God. The most extremist groups of Zealots were called Sicarii. Sicarii used violent stealth tactics against Romans. Under their cloaks they concealed sicae, or small daggers, from which they received their name. At popular assemblies, particularly during the pilgrimage to the Temple Mount, they stabbed their enemies (Romans or Roman sympathizers, Herodians), lamenting ostentatiously after the deed to blend into the crowd to escape detection. In one account, given in the Talmud, Sicarii destroyed the city's food supply so that the people would be forced to fight against the Roman siege instead of negotiating peace. Sicarii also raided Jewish habitations and killed fellow Jews whom they considered apostates and collaborators.

And in the modern era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence

Zionist political violence refers to acts of violence committed by Zionists.

Actions have been carried out by individuals and Jewish paramilitary groups such as the Irgun, the Lehi, the Haganah and the Palmach as part of a conflict between Jews, British authorities, and Palestinian Arabs, regarding land, immigration, and control over Palestine.

British soldiers and officials, United Nations personnel, Palestinian Arab fighters and civilians, and Jewish fighters and civilians have been targets or victims of these actions. Domestic, commercial, and government property, infrastructure, and material have also been attacked...

June 30, 1924. Dutch Jew Jacob Isra?l de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.
1937?1939 The Irgun conducted a campaign of violence against Palestinian Arab civilians resulting in the deaths of at least 250.
July 15, 1938* A bomb left in the vegetable market in Jerusalem by the Irgun injured 28.
July 25, 1938* The Irgun threw a bomb into the melon market in Haifa resulting in 49 deaths.
November 6, 1944 Lehi assassinated British minister Lord Moyne in Cairo, Egypt. The action was condemned by the Yishuv at the time, but the bodies of the assassins were brought home from Egypt in 1975 to a state funeral and burial on Mount Herzl.
1944?1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.
1946' Letter bombs sent to British officials, including foreign minister Ernst Bevin, by Lehi.
July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people ? 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others. Around 45 people were injured. In the literature about the practice and history of terrorism, it has been called one of the most lethal terrorist attacks of the 20th century.
1946 Railways and British military airfields were attacked several times.
October 31, 1946 The bombing by the Irgun of the British Embassy in Rome. Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.
April 16, 1947* An Irgun bomb placed at the Colonial Office in London failed to detonate.
July 25, 1947 The Sergeants affair: When death sentences were passed on two Irgun members, the Irgun kidnapped Sgt. Clifford Martin and Sgt. Mervyn Paice and threatened to kill them in retaliation if the sentences were carried out. When the threat was ignored, the hostages were killed. Afterwards, their bodies were taken to an orange grove and left hanging by the neck from trees. An improvised explosive device was set. This went off when one of the bodies was cut down, seriously wounding a British officer. December 1947 ? March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of civil war after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
'1947 Letter bombs sent to the Truman White House by Lehi.
January 5?6, 1948 The Semiramis Hotel bombing, carried out by the Haganah (or, according to some sources, Irgun) resulted in the deaths of 24 to 26 people.
April 1948 The Deir Yassin massacre carried out by the Irgun and Lehi, killed between 107 and 120 Palestinian villagers, the estimate generally accepted by scholars.
September 17, 1948 Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Folke Bernadotte, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

"July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people ? 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others. Around 45 people were injured. In the literature about the practice and history of terrorism, it has been called one of the most lethal terrorist attacks of the 20th century."

[davdi]

So, mr blackwell.   Would it be okay if the next terror attack were to happen when n your home town?  After all, it is a fact of life!