Terrorism

Submitted by S Fineman (United States), Sep 7, 2004 at 19:27

Something that wasn't mentioned by Mr. Pipes is that most define terrorism as spreading or inciting terror in the enemy by the intentional targeting of innocents, i.e., children and noncombatant women. When Arabs accuse Ariel Sharon of being a terrorist because occasionally some of these civilians are inadvertently injured or killed when attacking a known military or terrorist base, they are obviously in error and must be shown for that.

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