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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of terrorism. Distinctions are drawn between secular and religious terrorism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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it will only grow further. Recent events have shown that as the West engages in conflicts involving terrorism, the ideology of terror is spreading back to those Western countries; besides
the obvious examples of terrorist activities by foreign countries against the West such as the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the attacks on Britains
public transportation system some years later, there have been many examples of "homegrown" terrorism against Western nations such as the Oklahoma City bombings in the 1990s, or more recently, the
shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and the attack on a childrens education center in Norway by a political extremist. Even as terrorism becomes a social and political buzzword and moves to
the forefront of social consciousness, Clearly, the current solution of armed intervention is not working, as is evidenced by the prevalence of terrorist attacks on United States targets by insurgent
groups in both Afghanistan and Iraq, both countries the United States has militarily occupied within the last decade. Because of the prevalence of terrorism in contemporary society, it is now
more important than ever for nations to develop nuanced understandings of terroristic history, intent, methods, and ideology, in order to develop a workable method for combatting and overcoming this looming
threat. This paper will thusly explore an important factual distinction regarding the understanding of terrorism: the key differences between secular criminal terrorism and religious terrorism. To begin with, it is
necessary to define each of the two types of terrorism in question. At its core, terrorism is defined simply as the use of violence against civilian targets (as opposed to
military targets) in order to promote some agenda through the spread of fear and terror. As a definition, this lacks specificity, but that lack of specificity actually reveals something critically
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