of Terrorism: After quoting the purposes and intentions of terrorism, the causes should be highlighted as well. A main cause of terror and violence is hate. For instance, doctors have been killed and clinics have been bombed. Why? “Issue-group extremists are another growing source of terror violence. Recent escalations in attacks against medical staff, clinics and hospitals by anti-abortion campaigners in the USA, and against research scientists, laboratories and commercial premises by animal rights campaigners in the UK, are indications of the kinds of motivation involved. Although issue-group extremists aim at changing specific policies or practices rather than the whole socio-political system, their potential for endangering life and social and economic wellbeing should not be underestimated. Issue-group motivated terrorism shows every sign of increasing in the heavily urbanized pluralist democracies, with their complex and vulnerable systems of communications, transportation, electronic funding transfers, etc.” (“Commentary No. 53”, Online)About a decade ago, “six states were actively supporting and sponsoring terrorist acts. Today, seven states are still on the official U.S. list of supporters of international terrorism (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria), but only one, Iran, is believed to be sponsoring terrorism actively… Increasingly, terrorists are organized into ad hoc groups. Such groups are fluid organizationally and tend to coalesce into task forces for specific missions. Yonah Alexander has called the new mode of operation "well organized disorganization." As a result, terrorist groups are harder to track and penetrate, and their targets are harder to predict.” (“The Rise of Terrorism”)The causes of terrorism are different in each distinct nation. In Africa, especially Rwanda, the “ethnic cleansing” is the basis of terrorism. Africans fl...
