Hot Hole (The Holey Blog)

Its been since 3 days that a new article got posted on this blog. I somehow could not make time for it, though I was feeling an urge to post an article. I was thinking of the happenings of the world lately. I realised that we all know what is the cause of all this trouble, terrorism. The dictionary meaning, according to WordWeb (http://www.wordweb.com/), of terrorism is "The calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear". The definition is very clear and matches exactly with the actions of so called, Jehadis. But we also know that a definition can be inferred differently. Lets break down the above definition and verify whether the so called jehadis can be called to practise terrorism:

1. The calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) - The terrorist group are known to make a plan of action for any attack. It is never spontanoeous. They observe, track and make plans accordingly. Every attack of theirs has more voilence than threats.
2. against civilians - The terrorists' attack always against civilians. Think of any bomb blast like Mumbai, Bali, New York etc. or beheadings like Daniel Pearl. It is crystal clear that they attack the civilians.
3. in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature - The terrorist organisations keep proclaiming about their goals and always link it to their religion Islam. Various terrorist organisations have different ideologies but boil down to the same meaning. They have different flavours for the same ideology. I feel they goals are more politically linked than religion. Religion is just an excuse. Their aim is to rule over the world. There are so many religions in the world, but still Islam is the only religion linked to terrorism. If religion was the reason then there should have been various terrorist organisations preaching different religions.
4. this is done through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear - The common man being the weakest is always the target of the terrorists. The terrorist organisations want to force the common man and compel them to their whims and fancies. Think of the ways the muslim women are compelled to do uncomfortable things in the name of religion.
All these points make it absolutely clear the the meaning of terrorism and its very apt to say that the alias of Jehadis is terrorism. Only that the meaning of Jehad has to be worded differently. The wordweb defines the word jehad as "A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal". Any human with sane mind would know that its not at all holy.

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