Isis is a terrorist group that follows an Islamic ultra-fundamentalist ideology and that controls a vast region across Iraq and Syria. It considers itself at war with all nations and with all people who do not meet its standards as "true" Muslims. ISIS wants to rule and if possible expand its state, where it wants to enforce fundamentalism. They want to restore the early Islamic empire called the caliphate and eventually take over the whole world. ISIS beheads non-Sunnis and dissidents
In “A Behavioral Analysis of John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist,” James N. Gilbert effectively argues that John Brown’s inhumane actions clearly conform to a modern definition of a domestic terrorist, proving that Brown was an irrational terrorist. Not only is Gilbert a professor and former chair of the department of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, but he is also an author who specializes in criminal investigative theory and has authored Criminal Investigation as well as numerous
How quick America is to condemn the terrorist acts of other nations, yet on it’s own soil, it does little to eradicate the deep seeded hatred and the acts of domestic terror that occur within its own boundaries. America has been operating on hypocritical, double standard geopolitics since its founding as a superpower, and is constantly sticking its nose into foreign conflict and then is wholly shocked when it gets cut off, as if people like having their land raped by foreign supremacists and bombs
The morning of September 1, 2004, a terrorist group encompassed children, parents, and faculty on the first day of the new school year at School Number One in Beslan, a Russian town in the republic of North Ossetia, and took them captive. This was just the beginning of the three horrific days that were experienced by more than one thousand people held hostage. Chechen separatists stormed the school on Wednesday morning. The standoff lasted until Friday when Russian Special Forces took back the school
In terrorist attacks, individuals or groups use violence to obtain political or social objectives through the intimidation of a large audience beyond that of the immediate victims (Santifort-Jordan & Sandler 2014, 981). If the terrorist attack is particularly shocking, then the terrorist group hopes that their malicious act will cause sufficient social anxiety that society will pressure the government to concede to the group 's demands. Suicide terrorist attacks, the execution of which requires the
those with high regard for freedom make ideal terrorist targets. The terrorists, through their actions intend to create a pervasive culture of fear within their target areas. Concepts of freedom, democracy, and prosperity are often polar opposites of terrorists. They instead, often intend to enslave, restrict freedom, or impose their own beliefs on others through fear. Areas of the world that are against these concepts are often targets for terrorist activity. America, Europe, and Middle Eastern
Top 3 Terrorist Attacks There have been several terrorist attacks that the United States had experience for decades. I find that there are three terrorist attacks that I believe to be major that made history. Those particular events were the Oklahoma City bombing, East African Embassy, and Tokyo Japan Bombing. The reason why I believe the separate attacks were considered to be largest threat is due to the amount of lives that were taking away from the amount of killings and injuries that have been
1. How can extremist groups treat fellow human beings with such cruelty? When we think of a person who joins a terrorist group we think that they must be a psychopath or suffer from some form of mental illness. There has to be something wrong with that individual to be so easily swayed into a group that is so violent and has no regard for human life. However, classic studies like those performed by Milgram and Zimbardo proved that even stable, well-adjusted individuals can be capable of inflicting
Terrorist cyber-attacks on national institutions will result in greater devastation than a cyber-crime directed against an individual. At the current rate in which technology is increasing, establishments must constantly upgrade their system’s security. If the national institutions fail to be vigilant to the present day cyber threats, they will become victims of terrorist cyber-attacks. “Our nation's government, military, scientific, commercial and entertainment sectors all operate on the same
There are many psychological and behavioral factors that may contribute to someone becoming a homegrown terrorist. Some of these factors include uncertainty toward or disappointment in parental figures, prolonged youth identity searching with the crises that accompany it, and possible issues toward women, intimacy, marriage, (Olsson 2013). Other factors also include issues with authority such as fearing or hating authority while longing for effective authority (Olsson 2013). Just