Terrorism

Terrorism is the specific threat or use of terror, fear, and violence as a tool of propagating civil unrest and social paranoia. The intent of terrorist organizations is to undermine a people’s sense of national security, in fear of an imminent and often clandestine attack.

The power of terrorism rests in the psychological threat to one’s way of life. Terrorists directly target social customs and norms, which are firmly embedded in practice. More specifically, terrorism is the attempt to change practice, namely religious, social, cultural, and political practices, by means of intimidation and a constant threat of violence.

The greater the fear among intended victims, the more effective terrorism is in reinforcing social paranoia. Therefore — among the masses — as fear and terror increase, faith in the government’s ability to protect the people decreases.

Primarily, bloggers discuss terrorism in terms of its relation to religious fundamentalism, which often results from the acts of domestic terrorists, though international terrorism also affects a global community. For bloggers, terrorism presents an interesting topic for discussion because the threat of terrorism affects us all.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Terrorism”

• AG Eric Holder’s path to setting the nation on its ear aided by AZ’s two senators

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 484
  “ Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards .”   Attorney General Eric Holder Attorney General Eric Holder, acting on behalf of President Obama, has ordered ...
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• Carl Levin undermines the war effort

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 488
  Read between the lines kids, read between the lines. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers. An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, ...
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• Canadian partizan politics and Dhurban I and II

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 149
  Vlad attempts to avoid (not always very well) partisan politics except where it crosses the line of our two areas of interest. Islam and it’s threat to western secular democracy, and the new leftism for the same reason, and its very frequent alliance with Islam, also for that reason. In that spirit, I present these ...
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• Israel Matzav: Obama doesnt get it on terrorism

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 164
  Obama doesnt get it on terrorism This was the big story in the US the last couple of days that I was there (especially in New York). I dont know how much play its gotten in Israel, but its important for Israelis to understand it. Khaleed Sheikh Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, is to be brought to a ...
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• Bush Justice officials support trying terror suspects in civilian court

  
  Later On — Authority: 499
  Alex Seitz-Wald at ThinkProgress : Saying that critics are “understating the criminal justice system’s capacities,” two top Bush Justice officials came out in support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal court. Writing in the ...
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• Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 782
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• Young Minds, Old Hatreds

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 527
  F S Aijazzuddin, Principal Aitchison College, Lahore, wrote the following in February 2009 after a speech to 500 young Aitchisonians by the then outgoing Indian High Commissioner to PakistanIt was a fitting occasion for a farewell speech. The setting was a 122-year-old college for boys, established in Lahore at a time ...
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• The Faces of Evil

  
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  Nothing has bedeviled the human race more than the nature of evil. Organized religion has, mostly, made a cartoon of it, and quite unsuccessfully and destructively warred with nature over it. Secularists have too often dismissed the reality of it, rationalized or pathologized it, pissed on it with irony. Many on the ...
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• If they don’t spot him, we’re doomed

  
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• The Al Qaeda Diaries

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 754
  As the Pakistani soldiers moved into South Waziristan, they found something almost as valuable as al Qaeda itself: the diaries and books that explain how militant ideology binds the diffuse world of terrorism together.
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• AG Eric Holder: Fail!

  
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  Holder has now stated that he’s convinced the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will find him guilty—but if the jury disagrees, the administration is willing to keep holding him indefinitely. That’s just all kinds of wrong. The whole point of a trial is that if we find someone not guilty, he goes free, ...
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• YouTube Gives The Taliban Their Own Channel

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  Why must they sanction killers? Adil Watanmal the official Taliban webmaster known for such wonderful sites as http://www.alemarah.info has opened a Youtube channel.Sorry, I don’t read designs.  I suppose that is why they have video.http://www.youtube.com/user/TheIslamicEmirateWhich stands for The Islamic Emirate ...
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• Letter from Illinois GOP Congressional Delegation on transfer of terrorists to Thomson, IL

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 530
  All Republican members of Illinois’ Congressional Delegation have signed the following letter to President Obama: Dear Mr. President: According to the Chicago Tribune, your Administration may transfer up to 200 Al Qaeda terrorists from their detention facility in Guantanamo Bay a prison in Thomson, Illinois, 150 ...
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• An interesting video on the upcoming KSM trial.

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 149
  
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• OIF Summary, Nov. 20, 2009: Forces in Iraq Nab Terrorism Suspects

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 149
  D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups today during three combined security operations conducted with U.S. advisors in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Tikrit and Kirkuk, military ...
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• Eric Holder

  
  Moonage Political Webdream — Authority: 124
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• RIP, D-N-I.net (updated)

  
  James Fallows — Authority: 714
  After an outstanding ten-and-a-half year run, the website "Defense and the National Interest," better known as d-n-i.net , will close down next Monday, November 23. Chet Richards , who with his wife Ginger has run the site through that time, says that for various logistical and practical reasons he is ready to move ...
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• Fox News Poll: Mixed Views on Calling Ft. Hood Shooting Act of Terrorism

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Americans are divided on whether the murders in Fort Hood, Tex., were an "act of terrorism" or a "killing spree" -- but nearly half say political correctness fellow soldiers of gunman Nidal Malik Hasan silent before the attack.
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• Testimony: 30 homegrown terror plots disrupted; 8 in 2009 alone

  
  zTruth — Authority: 136
  Two counter-terrorism experts spoke out about the Ft. Hood massacre yesterday. From Rand Corporations Brian Jenkins testimony to Congress: ...Since 9/11, authorities in the United States have uncovered nearly 30 terrorist plots involving “homegrown terrorists.” This total includes plots to carry out attacks in the ...
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• Army Note To Sarah Palin, POTUS Is Thin Skinned.

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 439
  Officials at Fort Bragg, which houses 35,000 soldiers, said they worried media coverage of Palin’s visit would turn the appearance into a chance for people to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.” via ‘Sarah Rules’ Aren’t Uniform at U.S. Military Bases.A bit think skinned I ...
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