What is really terrorism?

Answer 1

Any act that causes terror.

Answer 2

According to Merriam Webster

Main Entry: ter·ror·ism
Pronunciation: 'ter-&r-"i-z&m
Function: noun
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

Now seriously.. Using terror, as a means of coercion.. So to get people to do what you want. According to the definition, the US is using Terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel is currently using Terrorism against the Palestinians and Lebanon.

Answer 3

This is an easy question. I'm sure you can go get the webster dictionary, but I'd like to answer it.
What do I have to do to you to get you to behave the way I want you to? What's the thing I have to do that involves me doing the very least to get the biggest change in your behavior? If I want to cause disruption and chaos, fear is what I create. It is easy to scare people as people are insecure and vulnerable. Everyone relies on having a safe life every day and they rely on protection from the gov't and their friends in order to feel secure. So the terrorist does what they can to disrupt this belief.
Bruce Schneier put up a blog entry about what terrorists might do in what he called a "bad movie plot". It's pretty funny and scary to read this : http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/announcing_movi.html

Answer 4

Ive been asking this for a long time.. ya know.. my kids terrorize my house daily.. schoolyard bullies terrorize their classmates. Who knows what terrorism really is. Its such a vague word.

Answer 5

One definition would be supporting, assisting or voting for a group that does the following: Terrorizing / causing great fear in others / Doing an act that is unspeakable or unethical to cause fear in others.

Straps a bomb on his/her person and then blows self up with others that may be women or children in a shopping area or a bus. (Palestinian - Hamas) Lebanese allow Hezbollah to operate and assist Hamas.

Take a captive in hand cuffs and chop that person's head off with a knife while he's screaming [video tape and disseminate]. (Iraqi Insurgency)

Board a passenger liner with women and children and use it to kill thousands in a civilian building with no real knowledge of who or what is in that building. (Al Queda)

Answer 6

Terrorism is the use of violence to achieve ends or promote issues that have been closed or ignored by the political and/or legal system, but not to the satisfaction of the activist or promoters of that end or issue.

Thus, people who blow up abortion clinics are terrorists by this definition. And, so is Hamas, Al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah.

Answer 7

Desperation. When a minority is suppressed by a majority. An act of terror, in order to change or incite change....

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It's what our government does in almost every small country in the world.

Answer 8

Terrorism is defined by the US Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."

Answer 9

George Bush

Answer 10

When I see a preview for a new fox reality show. That always terrorizes me.

Man that puts more fear in me then bombs. If terrorists want to make my life hard they could put there extra terror money into fox broadcasting!!!!!!