Terrorism has no face it is a dark shadow which arrives without notice at any moment and any place.

It’s difficult to understand why this does happen, what are the reasons for those terrible acts in the name of religions, political motivations and others… It’s a very in-depth question involving many variables however, it is possible to mention some important ones for a better comprehension of terrorism.

We live in a society and every day we are influenced by others and we influence others with our behaviour in this regard terrorism is a way of influence, using violence as main weapon to achieve specific goals. Attached to this violence there are political perspectives or religious beliefs that are used to influence others and it is from here that we can analyse how terrorist organisations are established.

Social and Political Influences

There are many terrorist organisations and inopportunely most of them are well organised. They have a good structure, leaders and power which is the base to attract people to join them. They are a minority although they can conquer territories, important sources to get money and become a serious threat to any Nation.

Communication is also very important, they use propaganda campaigns defending politics or religious perspectives which are not accepted by majorities, their ideas are pass using terror and violence they will not hesitate to kill anyone who deny their ‘true’.

Ideology – Arguments and Beliefs

Terrorism is also defined by their extreme ideology which explain everything they plan, execute and support. Extreme ideology allows them to justify their acts and blame their enemies for using this path of violence.

Social Movements

These organisations can present themselves as a defenders of beliefs and values of religious or political movements on their own cultural community using violence to achieve their goals – let’s say it’s their technique of social influence.

Final Reflection

Terrorism is a sad and scary reality in our life that we can’t ignore it but at the same time we cannot hide otherwise these people will take over from us and rule the world. We are now involved in a war fighting an enemy that we know who is it but at the same time we can’t recognise it.

Racism is increasing I mean people don’t accept so easily cultural differences, we can see that in the Syrian refugees situation were many people disagree in accept them in our Countries (multiple reasons) but an ‘obvious’ one is that ‘some of them are not refugees they are terrorists’ – common! We and our governments should be worried we those ones who are already here some of them were born here (Europe, America…), they are leaving to those places as Syria to be trained and then sent them back to fight us and destroy our society, those are the dangerous ones!

Also we can see that many of these terrorists are young and they are persuaded to leave everything and fight against their own Country, some measures should be taken to understand why this happens and not just send fighter jets to bomb terrorist targets were many innocent people are also killed.

References:

http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/8/html