What Is It About Terrorism?

Mary Moua
ASA 002 Section 01
Blog Entry #6
October 23, 2015

What Is it about Terrorism?

 

It was interesting reading the different reasons that influence why an individual might become a terrorist with the authors having listed childhood experience and loyalty to one's nation as possible contributions. I found this interesting because I think a lot of times when a major and unexpected event, like 9/11, occurs many immediately only think about what happened and not necessarily the reasoning behind why the event happened. To know that there has been research done on why some resort to being terrorists is fascinating in that it not only helps people better understand why these terrorists might have done the things they did but could also be used as a way to find possible solutions that can be implemented to make sure the amount of tragic events committed by these terrorists decrease or the amount of terrorists in general lower. I also think it's interesting how in the U.S., to us ISIS would be an example of terrorists but to ISIS, the U.S. military could be seen as terrorists to them. This just proves that there are many different perspectives when it comes to terrorism and how we all view things differently.

 

Question: Terrorists are seen as evil monsters. Will they always be seen as monsters or will there be a time where they are depicted not as negatively?