Is Terrorism a Muslim Monopoly

Terrorism is non a Islamic Monopoly Kamlesh Kumar Singh inquiry Scholar Deptt. of Sociology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi-221005 email&160protected com M. N. 09369240262, 09026399178 Abstract All Muslims may non be terrorists, but all terrorists be Muslims. This comment, frequently heard afterwardward the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts atomic number 18 very different. First there is nothing new about terrorism. The end point terrorism derives from the Latin verb terrere, to cause to tremble or quiver. It began to be utilize during the French Revolution, and especially after the fall of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, or simply The Terror in which enemies of the Revolution were subjected to imprisonment, torture, and be whirling, the first of many advanced(a) example of state terrorism. sociologically, terrorist groups often recruit disaffected and alienated individuals, often motivated by strong ide ologies like nationalism or holiness to commit terrorist acts. These in turn generate societal fear and alter conflicts and hatred within the social fabric.Terrorism is generally defined as the killing of civilians for political reasons. Going by this definition, the British Raj referred to Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad and many some early(a) Indian freedom fighters as terrorists. These were Hindu and Sikh rather than Muslim. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killed U. S. chairman McKinley as well as king Humbert I of Italy. World struggle I started in 1914 when anarchists killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.These terrorist attacks were not Muslim. Guerrilla Fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho ki Menh and Fidel Castro killed civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called terrorists until they triumphed. Nothing Muslim about them. In Palestine, after world war second II, Jewish groups (The Ha ganah, Irgun, and stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels and installations and killing Civilians. The British, who so far governed Palestine, rightly called these Jewish groups terrorists. numerous of these terrorists latter became leaders of independent Israel. Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon. Ironically, these former terrorists then lambasted terrorism, applying this level hardly if to Arabs fighting for the very same nationhood that the Jews had fought for earlier. In Germany in 1968-92, the Badar-Meinhoff Gang killed dozens, including the head of Treuhand, the German Privatization agency. In Italy, the Red Brigade kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, Former prime minister.In 1970, the popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three westerly Jetliners. The groups coerce the planes to land in the Jordanian desert, and then blew up the planes in an incident. In 1972, Palestinian gunmen from the same movement stunn ed the world when they took Israeli athletes warrantor at the Munich Olympic Games. The Japanese Red Army was an Asian variant of this. Japan was also the home of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist cult that tried to kill thousands in the Tokyo metro system using pump gas in 1995.In 1975, an OPEC (organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries) meeting was discontinue in Vienna, Austria when a terrorist group led by the notorious Carlos the jackal entered, killing three people and wounding several in a chaotic shootout. In this case no Muslims were involved. In Europe, the Irish republican Army has been a catholic terrorist organization for almost a century. Spain and France event a terrorist challenge from ETA, the Basque terrorist organization. In, India the militants in Kashmir are Muslim but they are only one of several militant groups.The Punjab militants led by Bhindrawale, were Sikhs. The united Liberation Front of Assam is a Hindu terrorist group that targets Muslims rather th an the other way round. Tripura has witnessed the rise and fall of several terrorist group and so read BODO strong holds in Assam. Christian Mizos Mounted an insurrection for decades and Christian Nagas are still heading militant groups. In sum, terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly. There are or claim been terrorist groups among Christian, Jews, Hindus Sikhs and even Buddhists. Secular terrorists (anarchists, Maoists) have been the biggest killed.Why then is there such a widespread impression that most as all terrorists groups as Muslim? I see two reasons. First, the Indian elite keenly Follows the western media, and the west feels under attack from Islamic groups. Catholic Irish terrorists have killed for more people in Britain than Muslims, yet the subway bombings in capital of the United Kingdom and Madrid are what Europeans remember today. The Badaar Meinhoff Garg , IRA and Red Brigades no perennial pose much of a threat, but after 9/11 Americans and Europeans fear th at they could be hit anywhere any time.So they centralise attention on Islamic militancy. They pay little notice to other forms of terrorism in Africa, Sri Lanka or India these pose no threat to the west. indoors India, Maoists pose a far greater treat than Muslim militants in 150 districts, one-third of Indias area. But major cities feel threatened only by Muslim groups. So the national elite and media focus irresistibly on Muslim terrorism. Doing Ph. D. on the topic Terrorism A Sociological study of Victims Families