Terrorism today: is it provoked or unprovoked?

Question

Please provide a reason to support your answer.
i just want to know other peoples views/opinion on this. Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Both , it was there before. But now in many cases innocent bystanders are being killed unintentionally in most cases but of those people their families may be looking for revenge for their family members death and can be recruited more easily had an event like this not happened. Think about it , if a foreign army was occupying your country and your 5 year old daughter was killed from them bombing your neighbourhood , most would certainly want revenge or aid those that were trying to avenge you and your people.These terrorist in many cases are seen as heroes or freedom fighters not terrorists as we call them in western countries.
I don`t agree with killing innocent bystanders and do not sympathize with random killing ,such as suicide bombers though.

Answer 2

What makes you think that its anything anyone is doing right at this second of time?

Nations and people have been fighting and building grudges for millenia. Heck, since the cave man days. Its what we do. Its human.

Its a never ending cycle of "you did this to me so I'm going to do that to you". Whether those reasons are perceived or real doesn't really matter because the point is that those reasons, from years and years back, are still causing issues today.

Honestly, look at the world. The Irish Catholics and Protestants have been battling each other for hundreds of years over history lost in time. The blacks still can't seem to move on from things that didn't even happen to each individual person, but to ancestors many times removed. The native American population was butchered by the arriving Europeans and are still asking for reparations for things that they themselves have never seen. People are still hunting for Hitler's Nazi's, so they can be brought to justice even though they're all very old men by now.

Its human nature and most of it doesn't have anything to do with current behavior (though, admittedly, much bad behavior still exists. Look at other posters on here harping on how Islam is the enemy because of what happened in 9/11).

So... its provoked and unprovoked. And religion doesn't make it any better because it only gives people yet another excuse to hate each other.

Answer 3

From the terrorists view it's provoked. But from our view it's totally unprovoked and the epitome of evil.

I think the terrorists are jealous of our good life in the western society and I think they use the scripture in their Koran that states that all infidels should be exterminated to justify that it is some noble godly thing.

Answer 4

I would like to ask the terrorists that. Why or do they feel provoked? Why do they hate America? No Muslims here have come up with a good answer yet.

Answer 5

Terrorism IS A COWARDS WAY OF FIGHTING. They hide behind women and children as human shields. They try to attack civilians, and not armed troops. It is unprovoked SINCE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN THEY ATTACK ARE NOT PROVOKING THEM. It is the way of cowards, and cowardly satanic religious beliefs

Answer 6

I think it's a little of both. There are those who truly feel violated and in many instances I have to agree. They commit terroristic acts to avenge the wrongs done to them. Then there are those who are uneducated and manipulated into believing things that simply are not true, and they act on emotions and not facts. Then there are those who jump on the bandwagon for the attention.

Answer 7

provoked. People don't just blow up mosques for no reason. They have, in their mind, justification. The true question is if it could possibly be justified. The answer to that second question, I would answer in the negative.

Answer 8

All terrorism is provoked. The question is what they're being provoked by. These days, it is religious and political provocation.

Answer 9

its mostly religious related. religion has a lot to answer for yet has many problems. i stick to myself and do not speak about religion. i believe my ownthings in my own way. These activists get angry when the wrong things are said

Answer 10

These are quote from Islamic scriptures:
Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war. Sarah 9:5

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah (blasphemy) and his Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter. Surah 5:33


Qur’an 8:60 “Infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them.”
Bukhari:V4B52N260 “The Prophet said, ‘If a Muslim discards his religion, kill him.’”
Qur’an 5:51 “Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends.”
Sahih Bukhari V6B61N577:
I heard the Prophet saying, "In the last days (of the world) there will appear young people with foolish thoughts and ideas. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for there will be a reward for their killers on the Day of Resurrection."
Bukhari [4:52:177]: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him!"

Bukhari, V1B4N234: "A group of people from the Oreyneh and Oqayelh tribes came to the prophet to embrace Islam, the prophet advised them to drink the urine of the camels. Later on when they killed the prophet's shepherd, the prophet seized them, gouged out their eyes, cut their hands and legs, and left them thirsty in the desert to die."