Terrorism is as old as mankind itself. It is part of all ages, continents and persuasions.But today we experience angst,a deep-seated fear of a hydraheaded monster,constantly changing and adapting,always catching its opponents off guard.
Do we have today ’s monster ’s name right? Is al-Qaeda our invisible enemy? Today ’s al-Qaeda no longer represents the global disciplined and centralized terrorist organization it once was. It is a unifying flag, a loosely connected body of home-grown terror groups and even freelance jihadists.
Today ’s international terrorism is not born out of religion, nor out of poverty. Al-Qaeda today is merely a cloak of patched discontent.Terrorism is bred by marginalization – as was so often the case in the past.Terrorism is a symptom of a society gone awry.When a world changes too rapidly in too many dimensions at once,it makes – rightly or wrongly – large groups of people, nations or countries feel excluded. And it is precisely this which constitutes the breeding ground for extremist splinter groups searching for a way to justify their acts of terror.
To win the war on terrorism, two goals must be pursued at the same time: a common struggle against the terrorists and a political effort that focuses on the discontent and feelings of exclusion among a vast and populous section of the world. In past waves of international terrorism, when hope was offered, terrorism died out.