Who invented terrorism?

Question

Who invented terrorism? Was he alone, or did he start a terrorist group? What group was it?

Answer 1

Terrorism has had many names in ancient times.

Like Barbarism, or piratism.

It's been with us for many millenniums.

Answer 2

Well, if you don't go with Joshua and the Hebrews genetic cleansing of the canaanites so that they could take the "promised land" as described in the bible, you could say that the first terrorists were the assassins of 11th century syria.
The assassins were the members of a secret order of a Shi'ite sect founded by Hassan i-Sabbah, who ruled from a remote stronghold and was called the Old Man of the Mountain. Supposedly, Hassan gave hashish to his fanatical disciples before sending them on suicide missions to murder his political enemies and drive unbelievers from the land of Islam.

Suicide missions to murder your political enemies is an excellent definition of terrorists.

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Answer 3

No single person invented terrorism. It's been going on since time began.

Answer 4

Excluding ancient texts: modern terrorism really started with the kamikazes during WWII

Answer 5

Terrorism has existed for a very long time. Imagine living in a small farming village in Europe when Genghis Khan and his hordes came sweeping across the plains.

Answer 6

The answer depends whom you ask. If you ask the Islamic fundamentalist, the will tell you, "the greater Satan and terrorist is the Bush administration or the will tell you the European colonialists. If you ask the Bush Administration, they will tell you "Al-Quiada or Osman Beladin" so, it is hard to tell. Of course those terrorists who did at the World Trade Center in New York is inhuman and cruel. But beyond that it is very hard to tell.

Answer 7

If you refer to Jihadists, it was originally the idea of Zbigniew Brzezinski under President Jimmy Carter as a way of convincing Sunni Osama Bin Laden and friends to fight the Soviets in a "Holy War" in Afghanistan which was successful for the Taliban's version of fundamentalist Islam. After William Casey (CIA) under Reagan started funding them directly they "were off and running." We, in effect, came up with the idea of Jihad/Holy War in opposition to its original meaning of an internal spiritual battle between Self/ego. Great idea, huh?!

Answer 8

Who 'invented' it probably doesn't exactly fit the question. A person can make a good guess where and when, though, given the fact it was orders from headquarters so much of the time.

Here's a piece of the 'Holy Texts', Christians, Jews and Muslims all hold sacred:

2 Kings 2:23-24
23. And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Numbers 25: 16-18

16. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17. Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18. For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

Deuteronomy 7

1. When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Samuel 15:3-3
2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.

The folks doing the bombing today, whether they're riding in tanks and carrying M-16s, or just wearing robes with C4 strapped to them, all went to the same school.

So what else is new?

Answer 9

It was a terrorist group. They call themselves "Man" and they are all equally to blame

Answer 10

George W was too coked up to ever invent anything!