By: Maryam Haji Ghulamjan
The word ‘Terror’ comes from the Latin word terrere which means “Frighten or tremble”.
And this ideology refers to the use of violence against random civilian or targets in order to intimidate or to create pervasive fear for the purpose of achieving political goals.
Oxford dictionary defines it as the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians in the pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism can take place for several and various reasons like the ethno-nationalism, discrimination, lack of socio-economic status, political grievance and many more.
It will be very affective on people’s lives as it causes a big fear in people’s minds and this is their mission as the terrorists are the masters of mind control. The terrorism will not cause a big materialistic damage, but they will become successful in their mission as their mission is the fear in people’s minds.
They get success mostly because of media and media shows the terrorist attacks as their trending news and terrify billions of people and shake political structures.
Since 11 September, 2001 every year terrorists have killed about 25,000 people globally, but unlike this each year traffic accidents kill about 1.25 million people altogether, diabetes and high sugar level up to 3.5 million people annually and air pollution kills about 7 million people, but still we fear the terrorism more than these.
The Paris attack of November 2015 only killed 130 people. The Brissels bombing of March 2016 only killed 32 people, and the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017 only killed 22 people.
A few terrorist attacks such as the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over lockerbie in 1988 killed hundreds. The 9/11 attacks set a new record, killing almost 3,000 people. All the people killed and wounded in the Europe by terrorist attacks will still far short of the casualties in any number of obscure First World War battles.
But still they cause big storm of disturbance all over the world.
The government must focus on the clandestine actions and must find out who is financing and supporting them.
The media should avoid exposing with interest in front of public, and must not give them publicity because their mission is to get publicity, spread their threat and fear, and control the humankind’s mind. And the failure of terrorism is the success of the whole world.
Published in Daily Makran Times
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