RE: The world needs new definitions of terrorism
January 26, 2015 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2015 at 9:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The US's terrorist problem is largely christian and decidedly domestic, though it's being largely christian shouldn't be construed as an indication that christianity was a factor in every terrorist act (though it explicitly is in many). Check the DOJ or the FBI for the stats (and yes, I've looked....the same is true for just about everywhere..if for no other reason than brute force of demographics). What you "feel" is a well reported and well studied tendency for human beings to conceptualize a societal problem in the most recent terms or events available to them, and more particularly in the loudest. They hear about a murder on tv every opther night, and so, when asked, they respond to the question "Whats the biggest problem facing the us today" -"Gun violence". Two weeks later it will be rape, or poverty, or intolerance, or terrorism (or muslim terrorism). It's a selection effect. Jihadists and Islamic terrorists are Johnny-come-lately's (and don't yet belong in the big leagues of terrorism by any sober measure - though I imagine they're making up for lost time brilliantly)....but, because they've come lately, they're fresh on your/our minds.
...and so here you are Life.
...and so here you are Life.
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