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About This Document: Terrorism is a tactic, not a movement. As such, it can be deployed by states, movements, or small groups regardless of ideology. It is not synonymous with Islam, nor with Islamism. That runs contrary to the thinking of many supposed experts and media commentators, who see Islamic terrorism as the definitive form of the phenomenon. As Dennis Prager writes, "A very small percentage of Muslims are terrorists. But nearly every international terrorist is Muslim." In this view, Islamist organizations are the standard by which all terror groups must be measured, the model imitated by rivals. If terror has a history, it will be found in the Islamic past - shall we start with the medieval Assassins? Or better, just list the index entry: "Terrorism: See Jihad"?Earlier Middle Eastern movements had no notion of suicide terrorism, which was, moreover, unknown to the Islamist militant tradition before about 1980. The movement that used suicide attacks most frequently and effectively, the Tamil Tigers, is in fact Sri Lankan and mainly Hindu- Marxist. In other cases too, hideous terrorist actions we have come to associate with Islamic extremism have clearly nonIslamic roots. Think for instance of those unspeakable al-Qaeda videos depicting the ritualized execution of hostages in Iraq and elsewhere. To quote Olivier Roy, one of the most respected European scholars of Islamist terrorism, these videos are "a one-to-one reenactment of the execution of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades [in Italy in 1978], with the organizations banner and logo in the background, the hostage hand-cuffed and blind-folded, the mock trial with the reading of the sentence and the execution."We might call this the Apache Theory of terrorism. Of all the enemies the U.S. faced during its wars against Indian tribes in the 19th century, the Apaches were the most determined and resourceful. When nervous white residents of the Southwest asked, "How many Apaches are hiding in this room right now?" the answer was always,

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Tags: American Conservative, Sep 2011, After al-Qaeda, Jenkins, Philip, Commentary, Social criticism & satire, Politics, Hijacking, Suicide bombings, Islamism

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