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Terrorism is so easily thrown around as a blanket term these days. As many others have pointed out, the motivation seems to be more separatist than religious.
by jansho 9y ago
Terrorism is so easily thrown around as a blanket term these days. As many others have pointed out, the motivation seems to be more separatist than religious.
- stupidstupid1 9y agoTerrorism has a meaningless definition. It's as meaningless as 'communism' was during the Cold War; or 'socialism' in American politics. It may as well be 'Fnord' for how it's used.
- dmurray 9y agoSeparatist movements fit well with a traditional definition of terrorism, though (something like "politically motivated violence by non-state entities", maybe confined to violence against civilians). Purely religious terrorism was the exception until recently.
- rwallace 9y agoSeparatism and terrorism are orthogonal. There are separatist movements that resort to murder, but there are also separatist movements that campaign peacefully.