The Chapter is on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Terrorism and Homeland security shows how the two bases on the modern era focusing on the Post Second World War time as the main prominence. The topic reviews the nations, movements and people who engaged in the terrorist violence. It also reviews many types of terrorism that existed in the postwar era. It approaches mainly on the causes of terrorism, for instant the essential philosophy, faiths and the disturbing scenes in the lives of the states and the inhabitants. The context of Terrorism and Homeland security stimulates the critical thinking of the readers (Purpura, 2007).
Terrorism is the act that disturbs the stability of societies and the peace of people living in them. In the modern times, the outcomes of terrorism are that it threatens the regions where the terrorists invade. In the current social media times, terrorists’ images and events broadcast into the minds of millions of people. The terrorist groups understand the power of the symbols and spread them into their advantage as much as they can. Terrorists’ nations also understand the power of the immediate information and try to control the spread of reports and the events. Many actions of political violence are acts of terrorism. Most people note that politically aggravated intimidation of states and annihilation of enemy civilian’s use of torture are forms of terrorist attacks (Purpura, 2007).
So that we completely understand the meaning of terrorism, we have to understand its sources. Behind every action of terrorist attack, some hidden belief approach causes their violence. Such belief system includes the radical system featured by prejudice. However, terrorism is a violent action expressing these kinds of beliefs; it is therefore the manifestation of radicalization. Based on the terrorist behavior, radicalisms’ can involve in such violent expressions as outlining debates and publishing them on newspapers. They can also engage in destruction and disturbances of the normal working of their enemies (Purpura, 2007).
Radicalism is an essential feature mainly on political views. Fanaticism attributes it towards the opposing wishes and different opinions as the main cause of motivation for the terrorist behavior. Radicals who engage in terrorism matters develop dignified arguments to reduce and justify their violence actions towards states, people, religions and other interests. Radicalism is a radical phrase of political principles. It can be called the over reaction of the belief system that the terrorists use to rationalize their violent manners (Purpura, 2007).
Radicals set themselves apart from the truth defenders or as the true inheritors of bequest. As it has ever been, religion is an original cause of radicalism activity. When radicals adopt a certain religious belief, their global view becomes as a struggle between the mystical forces of good and bad. They take themselves as those living a moral life that fits in the God’s will. Those who do not follow their belief system are as rejecters of one true belief. The manifestation of their actions includes elements of the social and political status. These people have an efficient mission, aim and morality intelligence. They make a worldview that discriminates them from the society. Their attitudes and terrorists actions are judgmental to those who acknowledge the belief system unreasonably to those to reject it (Purpura, 2007).
A natural apprehension would mean that terrorism is the illegal or unlawful use of force. This means that terrorism is violent actions based on political aims and motives of violence. It is an action exploiting fear through violence in the search of change. America defines terrorism as the illegal use of force against people or property to pressurize and threatening the administrations or the societies for them to gain social, political and religious belief purposes (White, 2017).
Many nations change their approaches to the national security and law enforcement depending on how they define terrorism. This demonstrates through the current changes in American security and law regulation policies as a response to terrorism. When terrorism as a word outsourced in the Western History, the governments changed their policies based on the ways they defined the threats. Terrorism did not start as nothing as many Americans were aware of the modern activist which was after the First global trade violence. The current terrorism from the Western approach, developed from the French Revolution and not from a group of radicals. Terrorism increased in the 19th century where it changed the philosophy systems. Its meaning changed in the 20th and 21st centuries (White, 2017).
The meaning of terrorism has therefore changed according to the political changes in the Western History. It started as administration oppression in France but France adjusted its meaning to Spanish revolutionary policy in the Napoleonic Combats. The meaning spread when the followers of the Soviet organization used terror campaign to conquer the population. After the Second World War, terrorism emerged in opposing movements, political radicalism and beliefs. All these varying forms of revolution and violence happened because of changing definitions and many rules (White, 2017).
Conclusion
The origin of progression of the Western egalitarianisms developed to the relationship between social equality and terrorism. This explains that terrorist attacks happen more in egalitarianism governments than in the countries with other system of government. According to the Terrorism psychiatrists, terrorists need egalitarianism nations for utility as these kinds of states makes it easier for them to act. Terrorists are in need of liberty, they need freedom of speech, reflection and exploit. As a result, terrorism is a threat, but an overreaction that intimidates the government and the public.
Reference
Purpura, P. P. (2007). Terrorism and homeland security: An introduction with applications. Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann.
White, J. R. (2017). Terrorism and homeland security.
