Is Terrorism a Muslim Monopoly

Terrorism is non a Muslim Monopoly Kamlesh Kumar Singh Research Scholar Deptt. of Sociology Banaras Hindi University Varanasi-221005 emailprotected com M. N. 09369240262, 09026399178 Abstract All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists be Muslims. This comment, frequently heard after(prenominal)wards the Mumbai go wrong blasts implies that terrorist act is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts be very different. original there is nothing new slightly terrorism. The term terrorism derives from the Latin verb terrere, to set out to tremble or quiver. It began to be apply during the French Revolution, and especially after the determine of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, or just now The Terror in which enemies of the Revolution were subjected to imprisonment, torture, and be targeting, the scratch of many an(prenominal) modern example of call down terrorism. Sociologically, terrorist groups often recruit disaffected and disaffect individuals, often motivated by salubrious ideologies like nationalism or organized religion to commit terrorist acts. These in turn be possessed of societal fear and exacerbate conflicts and plague within the social fabric.Terrorism is loosely defined as the sidesplitting of civilians for political reasons. Going by this definition, the British Raj referred to Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad and many other Indian freedom fighters as terrorists. These were Hindu and Sikh instead than Muslim. In 1881, anarchists kil guide the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killight-emitting diode U. S. president McKinley as well as king Humbert I of Italy. World War I started in 1914 when anarchists killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.These terrorist attacks were not Muslim. Guerrilla Fighters from Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Menh and Fidel Castro killed civilians during their revolutionary campaigns. They too were called terrorists until they triumphed. vigour Muslim about them. In Palestine, after world war second II, Jewish groups (The Haganah, Irgun, and stern Gang) fought for the creation of a Jewish state, bombing hotels and installations and killing Civilians. The British, who even governed Palestine, right called these Jewish groups terrorists.Many 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 direct solely to Arabs fighting for the very alike(p) 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 ablaze(p) brigade kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, Former prime minister.In 1970, the common mien for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked common chord western Jetliners. The groups forced the planes to land in the Jordanian desert, and then blew up the planes in an incident. In 1972, Palestinian gunmen from the same thrust stunned the world when they took Israeli athletes surety at the Munich Olympic Games. The lacquerese Red Army was an Asian Version of this. Japan was also the home of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhistic cult that tried to kill thousands in the Tokyo metro system victimisation nerve gas in 1995.In 1975, an OPEC (organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries) meeting was break up in Vienna, Austria when a terrorist group led by the notorious Carlos the Jackal entered, killing three people and wounding several(prenominal) 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 salute 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 than the other way round. Tripura has witnessed the rise and hand of several terrorist group and so subscribe BODO strong holds in Assam. Christian Mizos mount an insurrection for decades and Christian Nagas are cool it heading militant groups. In sum, terrorism is certainly not a Muslim monopoly. There are or have 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 elect keenly Follows the western media, and the west feels on a lower floor 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 G arg , ira and Red Brigades no longer seat much of a threat, but after 9/11 Americans and Europeans fear that they could be hit anywhere any time.So they focus attention on Islamic militancy. They pay little notice to other forms of terrorism in Africa, Sri Lanka or India these stage no threat to the west. Within India, Maoists demo a far greater hide than Muslim militants in 150 districts, trine of Indias area. But major cities feel exist only by Muslim groups. So the national elite and media focus irresistibly on Muslim terrorism. Doing Ph. D. on the matter Terrorism A Sociological break down of Victims Families