Blog Post #16- The Root of Terrorism

 

There are many factors to date that relate to a person becoming a terrorist or doing a terrorist act. The three main factors are discrimination, being unaccepted and the biggest factor of them all; poverty. All of these can lead to some kind of terrorism, whether mild or extreme.

 

To begin, the average Muslims become bombers when the causes of their anger come to be perceived as part of a general war against Islam. The feeling of being under attack may be amplified by personal experience of discrimination, and then validated by exchanges with like-minded friends, family members and Internet users. In other words, it's the build up of anger of being treated unequally that causes someone to burst and get revenge on others to feel like they have "power" to do it.

 

Secondly, being unaccepted as a child and while growing up changing the way someone may live their life. If they cannot do daily routines that others can do, that makes a person upset and can lead to severe anger. A person can only deal with a certain length of time of not being accepted and always being criticized for doing something that is not looked as correct in today's society that built up anger occurs and like above, they burst and want to get revenge.

 

Thirdly, one of the biggest factors leading to terrorism is poverty. Children in poverty learn poverty related behaviours which will carry out as they grow older. Things such as not learning what is right and wrong and growing up in poverty where rules are slim to none, the person does not know what to do with their life and how to react properly in certain situations or times when they get bored and have nothing to do. As well, the influence of others while in poverty is a significant contributor, if fighting someone off is a way to resolve a problem in the country in which the person was born, they don't know that's unacceptable in developed nations like Canada or the USA.

 

In conclusion, being unaccepted, racism and poverty are not just separate world issues, they are the building blocks for a bigger world issue; terrorism. Human civilization has to respect both the race of the person and the person as a whole. Additionally, socialists have to come and talk to under developed countries about the outside world and how to grow up and live life to the fullest. Barack Obama and Stephen Harper have to do more campaigns for their countries to raise awareness of these problems and show other rulers of nations how equal acceptance is running Canada and the USA positively. With these in effect, the factors of terrorism should be mitigated and hopefully disappear as soon as possible.