Chapter Three: Manifestation of threats
Offence develops hatred and negative emotions towards them. Like birds of the same feathers, which flock together, the individuals are likely to get themselves involved with groups of the same negative sentiments. For example, they get themselves surrounded by friends, acquaintances or some family members who they can relate to, with the idea of impacting them with their negative emotions or hatred. When these hateful extremists associate with anyone or groups of people or individuals, the possibilities that these individuals or groups can absorb these bad and negative emotions are likely. The truth is no one gets up early in the morning and decides to hate and kill some individuals or group of people.
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It is in light of this that the relevant authorities should not just focus on the convicted terrorist or those who have threatened before, rather expand their focus on individuals and groups who have had any sort of affiliation, contact or relationship with those who are already on the radar of the police and the intelligence commissions. Still emphasizing on the phrase of the rotten apple, if they get in touch with a group of other apples, the good apples can be affected and this should not be taken for granted. When one person gets radicalised, he becomes an agent of transmission of what made him to become radicalised, and in their own way begin to discretely spread their hate. Such transmissions are only possible through the individuals’ circle of associations and acquaintances. To reduce or minimize such negative transmissions that breeds terrorists, individuals confirmed or suspected as extremist should be controlled rigorously, because the uncontrolled movements of the terror suspects within the country has been one of the major key pathways behind the spread of terrorist networks and cells and some times sudden terror attacks within the
As of this moment, our government has currently been able to identify several different forms of domestic extremist groups that have coincided within our local, state and federal pentatrienes, such as White Supremacists or Neo-Nazi’s, political extremist, and array of other large coordinated prison gangs. Nevertheless, with the increasing risk of more home-grown radical Islamic terrorist turning up on United States soil, great levels of distress have recently been expressed by Americans because of the looming risk of what could result from this prisoner radicalization. The recent uprising of the radical Islamic extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has resulted in a significant rise in the number of annual domestic terrorism- related arrests. The ideology implemented through ISIS’s methods of teaching, has
A simple act of violence can genuinely affect an individual's state of mind. Through violence, individuals feel empowered and are tempted to prolong their violent nature. This results in one heinous act, following with worse violence. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier, both authors effectively highlight a theme, that violence will ultimately lead to more violence.
Aaron Beck’s Prisoners of Hate (1999) provides a great in depth look at the causes of anger, hostility, and violence. Becks central message, that is illustrated throughout various chapters, is that all hate is hate, no matter the scale. In other words, the same mechanisms that cause people to hate their spouse is the same hate that is used to justify war. This fact is hardly intuitive, but Beck’s use of a broad variety of stories, backed up by cognitive analyses, shows just how similar all anger, hate, and hostility truly are. With that being said, Beck does not leave it at that, but rather provides numerous ways of correcting hate and freeing those who are prisoners of their own negative cognitions and emotions.
(2017). He expands on how terrorists have the advantage of relatively easy access to weapons, and the easy communication, including social media and TV. Lastly, he argues that poverty and instability in the Middle East helps recruit more
The author shows time and time again that those who cannot solve problems with words solved them with terror and violence.
Hence, bringing a dangerous result of violence,
Hate and violence both tend to spread like a disease. When hatred is introduced to an individual, he/she often cannot see past this burning motive - they yearn for revenge. Hatred and violence become a means of getting what someone wants. Author Samira Ahmed further elaborates on this topic: “In recent times, we’ve seen hate emerge out of the dark corners, torches blazing in the night. We’ve witnessed so-called leaders not merely against the forces of hate, but for equality and justice.
This vicious cycle continues entrenching attitudes among both sides. The result of all these is escalated violence, which claims victims from both
A research conducted by Dreher (2009) has stated that people have a kind of fear and insecurity after they have been bothered. The attack was for the New York and Washington which reported that the poor society relationship between the Muslim people and Wider society. The incidents of oral and bodily attack have increased the fear of Muslims people in Australia. The attack was made with the motive of spreading the information that Muslims are not the Australian and they are not supposed to stay in Australia. This kind of perception and view has been reported by
People assume that because someone is Islam or Muslim that they must be a terrorist, and they become weary of them to protect themselves. These situations demonstrate how permitting self-preservation to lead to hysteria causes destruction and hurt throughout the community. If not fixed, these situations will lead the destruction of the world. The theme of hysteria and self-preservation is evident throughout The Crucible and in real life.
Often times, mindless conformity leads to senseless violence that could have been avoided with just a little more thought. In order to justify hateful and exclusive acts, the actions of people in minorities are often taken
This course of action similarly enhances tension between idealistic Muslims who continue to stay devoted to their religion, and hence find a means to project that through radicalized courses of actions. The product of conflict is danger to entirety of the group involved, and hence it is best to find sympathy and solidarity between the oppressed and
Terrorism is an organised transnational crime that has the potential danger to the stability and security of nations, and largely a threat to international peace. The rise of terrorist armed groups across the globe has brought about renewed efforts by States to enact legislations that will curtail the harmful activities of terrorists. Detention is one of such effort used in preventing and disrupting the plans of these terrorists. Nations affected by the activities of armed terrorists experienced arrest and detention of suspects, backed with terrorism prevention legislations with the expected aim of safeguarding the national security. Nevertheless, such detentions are often posed with perceived threat of violation of rights.
Homegrown Terrorism (Allie) Homegrown terrorism has been defined as “extremist violence perpetrated by [European citizens or legal residents] and linked to or inspired by . . . radical Sunni Islamism,” (Pregulman 2012). The ideology of Islamic extremists that the West is at war with Islam has motivated homegrown terrorists. Like lone wolves, homegrown terrorists rely on the internet to radicalization and support (Pregulman 2012).
The fear element is what makes terrorism difficult to tackle. Once a community has been victimized by an attack, people become afraid that terrorism will repeat itself. Societies that fall prey to numerous terrorist attacks often develop a sense of resignation, going about their daily business despite any potential danger. For a community that experiences terrorism for the first time, or isolated incidents of terrorism, fear comes from another key element which is surprise. The various ways used to terrorise the public is explained below.