Post by Islamic Revival on May 27, 2005 8:24:54 GMT -5
Linguistically, Al-Irhab (terrorism) is a noun derived from the verb Arhaba (to terrify) with the meaning to frighten or scare.
Allah said:
"(Liturhibo) to threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy." [Al-Anfal: 60]
i.e. you should frighten the enemy.
However, this has been altered to give a new meaning to the word. In a seminar in 1979 both the American and British intelligence services agreed to redefine terrorism as 'the use of violence against civil interests
to achieve political objectives.'
Thereafter, many international conferences and seminars have been held and legislation and canons passed to define those actions which can be described as terrorism, clarifying the types of movements, organisations and parties which practise terrorism and highlighting those states supporting terrorism. The Kufr states contend that this was done to adopt the necessary measures to fight terrorism and to control its
spread.
It is clear from the legislation and laws relating to terrorism that they are not accurate. These anti-terrorist laws are subject to the political bias of the states that enacted them. For example, we see that the United States considered the assassination of Indira Ghandi as a terrorist act, but not the assassination of King Faisal nor the murder of Kennedy. At first, she described the blowing up of the FBI building in Oklahoma
city as a terrorist act, but when it became clear that those behind the being an act of terrorism to a simple criminal act.
The United States in particular describes certain movements as popular opposition movements like the rebels of Nicaragua and the IRA and others. She considers the fighters of these movements, when arrested, as prisoners of war according to Protocol (1) of the 1977 Geneva Convention. On the other hand, every movement opposing American interests or the interests of its agents is considered a terrorist movement and is placed on the list of terrorist organisations. This list, periodically issued by the US State Department, regularly includes most of the Islamic movements in Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Algeria etc.
Since the 1970s, America has generated national and international public opinion according to her viewpoint of what constitutes terrorism. She has consistently exploited actions aimed at civil targets for her own ends, whether these actions came from political or military movements not linked to America, or from movements connected to the intelligence services of America. For example, many reports have indicated that some actions described as terrorist were backed by personnel from the CIA, like the hijacking of the TWA aeroplane at Beirut at the beginning of the 1980s. The United States also exploited the explosion that occurred at the American al-Khobar base in Saudi Arabia. In 1996, at the G7 Conference in Paris she made forty recommendations regarding the fight against terrorism. Even before knowing the identity of the bombers, she used the incidents of the World Trade Centre bombing in New York and the bombing of the FBI offices in Oklahoma to promote anti-terrorism legislation approved by the US Senate in 1997.
The G7 recommendations and the anti-terrorism legislation gave the United States the authority to pursue any suspected terrorists worldwide. The United States believes she has the right to arrest and kidnap any person she considers guilty of any terrorist act and implement any punishment she deems appropriate, for example, prison, exile, withdrawal of residential and/or national rights and so on. All this can be done without giving the accused the right to defend himself or to be represented before a civil court or jury.
Allah said:
"(Liturhibo) to threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy." [Al-Anfal: 60]
i.e. you should frighten the enemy.
However, this has been altered to give a new meaning to the word. In a seminar in 1979 both the American and British intelligence services agreed to redefine terrorism as 'the use of violence against civil interests
to achieve political objectives.'
Thereafter, many international conferences and seminars have been held and legislation and canons passed to define those actions which can be described as terrorism, clarifying the types of movements, organisations and parties which practise terrorism and highlighting those states supporting terrorism. The Kufr states contend that this was done to adopt the necessary measures to fight terrorism and to control its
spread.
It is clear from the legislation and laws relating to terrorism that they are not accurate. These anti-terrorist laws are subject to the political bias of the states that enacted them. For example, we see that the United States considered the assassination of Indira Ghandi as a terrorist act, but not the assassination of King Faisal nor the murder of Kennedy. At first, she described the blowing up of the FBI building in Oklahoma
city as a terrorist act, but when it became clear that those behind the being an act of terrorism to a simple criminal act.
The United States in particular describes certain movements as popular opposition movements like the rebels of Nicaragua and the IRA and others. She considers the fighters of these movements, when arrested, as prisoners of war according to Protocol (1) of the 1977 Geneva Convention. On the other hand, every movement opposing American interests or the interests of its agents is considered a terrorist movement and is placed on the list of terrorist organisations. This list, periodically issued by the US State Department, regularly includes most of the Islamic movements in Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Algeria etc.
Since the 1970s, America has generated national and international public opinion according to her viewpoint of what constitutes terrorism. She has consistently exploited actions aimed at civil targets for her own ends, whether these actions came from political or military movements not linked to America, or from movements connected to the intelligence services of America. For example, many reports have indicated that some actions described as terrorist were backed by personnel from the CIA, like the hijacking of the TWA aeroplane at Beirut at the beginning of the 1980s. The United States also exploited the explosion that occurred at the American al-Khobar base in Saudi Arabia. In 1996, at the G7 Conference in Paris she made forty recommendations regarding the fight against terrorism. Even before knowing the identity of the bombers, she used the incidents of the World Trade Centre bombing in New York and the bombing of the FBI offices in Oklahoma to promote anti-terrorism legislation approved by the US Senate in 1997.
The G7 recommendations and the anti-terrorism legislation gave the United States the authority to pursue any suspected terrorists worldwide. The United States believes she has the right to arrest and kidnap any person she considers guilty of any terrorist act and implement any punishment she deems appropriate, for example, prison, exile, withdrawal of residential and/or national rights and so on. All this can be done without giving the accused the right to defend himself or to be represented before a civil court or jury.