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”

• THE UTTER HYPOCRISY OF THE LEFT

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
    ANN COULTER : How liberals play the victim — while oppressing others Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and their Assault on America by Ann Coulter Liberals love to play the victim, says Ann Coulter – particularly when they are oppressing others. “That is the essence of liberals,” writes Coulter in ...
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• Racist Obama billboard in Denver?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  No. In bad taste, maybe. Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The billboard features cartoons that show a caricatured President morphing from a suit-wearing politician into a turban-wearing ...
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• TREASON…Obama and MOST OF CONGRESS

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
  The JAG HUNTER Dauntless and Unafraid! FILE YOUR TREASON COMPLAINT NOW! Saturday, 21 November 2009   A ROBERT HEFNER ILLUSTRATION JAG HUNTER here:   The government take over of the health care industry is unconstitutional! It is a pure manifestation of totalitarianism. Our Congress ...
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• Terrorism and Insurgency – Lawyer: Terror Suspects To ‘Explain’ 9/11 Attacks (WCBS-TV New York)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 462
  Lawyer: Terror Suspects To ‘Explain’ 9/11 Attacks (WCBS-TV New York) The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd ...
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• Burkha Barbies

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  This should unite the Islamic Extremists and the western feminists but the feminists wont say a work about this.. One of the worlds most famous childrens toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover  - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in ...
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• Hugo Chávez defends Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan president defends Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter at gathering of leftist political parties Hugo Chávez has defended the jailed Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter and said his life sentence for murder was an injustice. Venezuelas president said Carlos, whose real name is ...
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• Hasan had intensified contact with cleric

  
  War in Context — Authority: 500
  Hasan had intensified contact with clericBy Carrie Johnson, Spencer S. Hsu and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, November 21, 2009In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious ...
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• The Danger of Imitation Defeating Creation

  
  DARING THOUGHTS — Authority: 100
  By Con George-Kotzabasis Knowledge is more poiesis ( creative imaginative thinking ) than mimesis . Friedrich Nietzsche Since the beginning of the Renaissance that emerged from the entrepreneurial, adventurous, and calculating spirit of the burgher and mercantile classes of the city-states of ...
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• Terror in Mumbai

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  First, let me thank KitmanTV for the embed code for this profoundly significant and important documentary. Hell if I had a single wish, it might be to make Obama watch this documentary and understand it, and it’s implications.
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• Obama Sides with Terrorists Against Families of Murdered Marines

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 623
  Obama Justice Department seeks to overturn civil judgment against Iran for murder of 241 United States Marines by Bill Levinson In 1983, 241 United States Marines were murdered by a suicide bombing in which a Bush-era Federal court ruled that Iran was complicit. The court ordered Iran to pay the families of the ...
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• Terrorism thats personal

  
  ??? — Authority: 134
  Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through ...
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• give a jihadi a bullhorn…

  
  Attack Machine — Authority: 488
  …and he’s gonna use it. What fools we have running things. A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny ...
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• Afghanistan: Serena Hotel hit by rocket attack, 4 injured.

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 609
  Update: Looks like we have our culprit. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ---> From Press TV : Hizb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claims responsibility for Saturdays rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul. Hekmatyar took responsibility for the Saturday attack in an interview with local media ...
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• Fort Hood gunman paralysed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Major Nidal Hasan in pain and not a flight risk, hearing told Major Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with 13 murders over the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, is paralysed from the neck down, incontinent and in severe pain, according to his lawyer. The lawyer, John Galligan, told a hearing by a military magistrate ...
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• RFID Chip Created for Identity and Healthcare – National Human Identification System – NHIS

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  Watch this video regarding Verichip and the implantable microchip, which will combine money, identity, and health records in one convenient package. Then read the article HR 3200 Institutes a National Human Identification System – NHIS. Verichip makes the chip, the FDA creates the registry, and Congress mandates ...
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• Guest Post: RAND Islam and CIA Islam too…

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent essay, an analysis of the powerpoint presentation of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan , appeared in the ...
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• A New York State Of Mind

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 511
  In a state where its been impossible to carry out a death penalty sentence since 1963, New Yorkers seem to have no problem doing it for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and the other terrorists that are expected to go on trial in NYC. In fact, 73% think KSM should get the death penalty, and a similar figure believe his ...
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• Scottish Compassion

  
  damnum absque injuria — Authority: 118
  On August 20, 2009, Scotland released Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on “compassionate” grounds because he had only three months to live. Those three months are up, but per Wikipedia he’s not dead yet. I say, Scotland has made this deal, so let Scotland enforce it.
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• Combat Camera Video: A Co 4th LAR Bn Marines Arrive in Afghanistan, Part 3

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 149
  NOTE: News readers click here to watch the video. D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2009 -- Embedded above is a b-roll video of A Co., 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, a reservist component just arriving in country, touring settlement one. Part 3 of 3. (Video by Cpl. Jennifer ...
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• OEF Update, Nov. 22, 2009: Forces Kill, Detain Militants in Ghazni, Logar, Kandahar

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 149
  D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22, 2009 -- An Afghan-international security force killed one enemy militant and detained another suspected militant in Ghazni province today while pursuing a Taliban commander known to lead militant foreign fighter elements and responsible for several attacks in ...
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