Do terrorists exists simply due to recent US foreign policy?

Question

Based on the rapid and strong answers below, most people think it has been around along time. But the first person to answer the question in the link below said that terrorist didn't exist until the U.S. invaded Iraq. I wonder why he would say that?...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtBbnOjVh1FzvRmrPe83wsTY7BR.?qid=20070714203346AAErqRP

Answer 1

No!!

Re: Mujahadeen: "In English, the word is recorded since 1958, in a Pakistani context, adopted from Persian and Arabic, as the plural of mujahid "one who fights in a jihad", in modern use, for "Muslim guerilla insurgent.""

"The old grandeur of Islam has been replaced with a feeling and consciousness of impotence in the midst of a resurgent west. This gave birth to an equally romantic sentiment of pan- Islamism.

But the result was the totalitarian set of concepts summed up by the rousing slogan that Islam provides a complete code of life from cradle to grave for individual Muslims as well as for a reunited 'ummah' (the community of all Muslims). The best exponents of this Ideology were the Pakistani scholar Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, though most Arabs regard Maulana Hassan al Banna as its main philosopher.

This ideology was the Islamic traditionalists' reaction to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maududi set out to create an alternative and came up with, in many respects, a carbon copy of communism, especially its totalitarian methodology. "

"The Muslim Brotherhood (Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) was established in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna and soon spead to other countries. Their ideology is that Islam is "creed and state, book and sword, and a way of life." By this they hope to spread the idea that it isn't possible to live in an Islamic society unless the whole of society, including the government, is run according to strict Islamic principles."

Answer 2

There is so much more going on behind the scenes and neither party talks about that.

Like the fact our Government has been policing the World and bombing Middle Eastern cities for almost two decades.

Selling weapons to this side then that side. Hoping they will kill off each other!

If a foreign Government was always forcing their hand in America and landed on our soil to force us into thinking a certain way and then started bombing us what would you do?

And for those deep in religion you can times that by 50%

Then when they (Middle Eastern) finally retaliate that foreign force tells their own country (America) to be scared 24/7 but go on about your regular life.

I am not sympothizing with terrorist's, I am arguing what Lobbyists and those corrrupt with this Government have done in our names!

And I have to say - it looks like people are dying over natural resources!

I don't think you can force a country and kill half a million of their population and then say you are making the World safer!

You have just recruited 50,000 new American enemies for that foreign force.

Does that make America safer!

Does the barrel of a gun create peace?

You remove their leader (who by the way kept terrorists out of Iraq) and take away their only strong source of leadership and then demand that two religous factions that have fought hundreds of years to just get along? That is crazy!

Now our troops are dying playing referee in a civil war and it has nothing to do with our safety or "the Fight on Terror"!

650,000 Iraqi's

Over 3,000 American men and women!

And it isn't just the GOP or this or that!

There is an entire corrupt circle in Washington and it doesn't matter what side you choose now! You will get the same foreign policy!

Vote Ron Paul

I tell you all only three things!

1. Do not vote where the money is! Lobbyists and those that control

2. Do not vote Democrat or Republican

3. Vote for an American "FOR" America
(America first - Foreign policy second)

For the guy below

If we knew everything our Government does against the Middle East and then look at your terror schedule below - I am sure we could see a pattern!

Answer 3

"Terrorists" have always existed. Our founding fathers were considered terrorists by the British.

The hatred toward us is definitely the result of our foreign policy. To think that our actions would have no consequences is absolutely absurd.

The main problem is that people in this country are completely unaware of what we did or do that makes people upset. They don't read the declassified CIA documents, or anything outside of a public school history book. Our CIA has been doing terrible things all over the world for decades...and most Americans have no idea. So they ignorantly assume that we are hated because they are jealous of us.

Answer 4

Terrorism is nothing new but the rules sure have changed.

30 years ago a "terrorist" was a lone hijacker interested in attracting attention to his cause by diverting a plane's route to some sympathetic country where he thought might be granted asylum and hailed as a hero.

Today's terrorist is a long way from that! Today's terrorist is a brainwashed radical militant, tricked into believing that western decadence is the root of all evil and an affront to Allah. So with little or no regard for the sanctity of human life, including that of his own, he will zealously pursue any and all violent measures, without conscience, in an effort to further his "jihadist" cause.

Answer 5

No, terrorist exist beyond the recent US foreign policy. By the way, terrorist come in different shape or form. They come as a government, as a political parties, as group and as an individual.

For example was the head of the USSR communist party (Bolshevik Party) but he killed more than Twenty millions of his own people. So, he was a state run terrorist. Then Of course, there are Ha mas, Islamic Fundamentalist, Zionist, the Secret Societies in America, Mafia, etc.

But to come to your question, there were terrorist group before the recent America's foreign policy.

Answer 6

Terroists have existed for far before you & I, or any other living individual. The detailed knowledge of our fore-fathers suggests.... Terrorists are not new---they have existed since Christian history has been written. Therefore we must deal with this scourge in a good and christian manner....

Treat all humans well, do not fall into the traps of any deamon and be a good and rightious individual. if ever your rightiousness and politics collide let your rightiosness be your guide. Through the love of the FATHER & THE SON...You too can grow...

God Bless

Answer 7

Absolutely not. You may disagree with US foreign policy all you like, but even countries like France and Germany who are opposed to the US get attacked.

Also, if you do a little bit of research on the history of Islam you will find there is a 1300 year tradition of jihad and political violence, so Islamic terrorism is no new phenomenon.

Answer 8

do you not read history?

Attack on the Munich Airport, February 10, 1970: Three terrorists attacked El Al passengers in a bus at the Munich Airport with guns and grenades. One passenger was killed and 11 were injured. All three terrorists were captured by airport police. The Action Organization for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Munich Olympic Massacre, September 5, 1972: Eight Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seized eleven Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine of the hostages and five terrorists were killed.

Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976: Members of the Baader-Meinhof Group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seized an Air France airliner and its 258 passengers. They forced the plane to land in Uganda. On July 3 Israeli commandos successfully rescued the passengers.

Iran Hostage Crisis, November 4, 1979: After President Carter agreed to admit the Shah of Iran into the US, Iranian radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen hostages were soon released, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981.

Grand Mosque Seizure, November 20, 1979: 200 Islamic terrorists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, taking hundreds of pilgrims hostage. Saudi and French security forces retook the shrine after an intense battle in which some 250 people were killed and 600 wounded.

Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983: Sixty-three people, including the CIA’s Middle East director, were killed and 120 were injured in a 400-pound suicide truck-bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, October 23, 1983: Simultaneous suicide truck-bomb attacks were made on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000-pound bomb destroyed the U.S. compound, killing 242 Americans, while 58 French troops were killed when a 400-pound device destroyed a French base. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.


TWA Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage, a U.S. Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was returned to Beirut after Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.

Achille Lauro Hijacking, October 7, 1985: Four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists seized the Italian cruise liner in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, taking more than 700 hostages. One U.S. passenger was murdered before the Egyptian government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages’ freedom.

and the list just goes on and on.....

Answer 9

What rock have you been hiding under? Do a little history research and find out that Islamofacist Terror groups have been around for 30+ years. Iranian Hostage in '79. Munich summer games in '72......Got nothing to do with US foreign policy. These people just want to kill something and create TERROR all around them.

Answer 10

Hardly. Terrorism has been an effective political tool since the beginning of time. That certainly doesn't justify it, it's one of the lowest, most immoral forms of political action, but it does work.

If you refer to Islamic terrorism/jihad, it's not new either and doesn't exist because of the US, though we have made ourselves a target because our free and prosperous society is in direct opposition to their ideologies. Plus, we have a tendancy to meddle abroad when our financial interests are threatened by a particular government.