All About Terrorism
                     All about 
TERRORISM
• Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to terrorize and create 
fear among the people for a particular objective, by nationalistic 
and religious groups as well as state sponsored terrorism by the 
army, intelligence or police.
brookings.edu
• The terms ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ was first coined during 
the French Revolution, when the revolutionaries violently 
terrorized their opponents with mass execution. Terrorism has 
different definitions in different context.
express.co.uk
• The true definition of terrorism is politically and emotionally 
motivated, whereas the United Nations defined it is ‘an act 
intended to cause death and injury to civilians to intimidate 
people or force the government from doing or abstaining from 
doing any act’.
gulfnews.com
• Governments or organizations may wrongly label 
someone as a terrorist, if that person or a group is against 
their policies and the government considers them as their 
opponents, in order to denounce and vilify them in 
public.
warontherocks.com
• Different types of terrorism include civil disorder, political 
terrorism, religious extremist terrorism, state sponsored 
terrorism and separatist terrorism. ISIS and Al Qaeda are 
examples for religious terrorist group, whereas LTTE was 
considered as a separatist terrorist group.
theindependent.co.uk
• Causes of terrorism may be to end government oppression, to 
dominate and spread a religion, separatist movements, for propaganda 
or to intimidate governments and organizations to do or abstain from 
certain actions.
• Terrorist attacks hijacking airplanes have been done for purposes like 
releasing a detainee of the terrorist group
bloomberg.com
• Radicalization of a person to join terrorist groups and commit acts of 
terror may be due to mental health disorder, for financial benefits, 
identifying self with extremist groups and getting brainwashed by 
radical elements.
• Terrorism can be state sponsored, where terrorist groups are funded 
and harboured by the government for its ulterior motives.
npr.org
• Modern-day terrorism is mostly associated with Islamic terrorist 
organizations like the ISIS, Taliban, Boko Haram and Al Shabaab, 
although terrorism has many types and several ideologies and 
religions are linked to it.
• ISIS, Taliban and Boko Haram have caused most number of deaths 
in recent years in many terrorist attacks, which remains a crucial 
matter of security concerns for most countries today.
theatlantic.com
• Africa and Middle East remain the most affected countries by 
terrorism, followed by Afghanistan, which is still battling with 
Taliban insurgency and Pakistan, which has been accused of 
harboring and funding several terrorist groups.
• The 9/11 terrorist attacks remain the most deadliest terror attacks 
ever in history.
sundaypost.com