Terrorism and How it has Changed our World

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This paper examines how terrorism is a problem that has plagued the world for thousands of years. It looks at how, having come full circle from its earliest beginnings of the Jewish Zealots to today's Islamic fundamentalists, religion continues to play an important role in driving terrorism. It also shows how even though the availability of weapons has evolved over time, terrorism continues to have the same driving goal, to bring attention to a particular cause.

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"Another, more famous, early group were the Assassins. They were an 11th Century offshoot of a Shia Muslim sect known as the Ismailis. Like the last groups we discussed, the Assassins preferred stabbing their victims in broad daylight. Generally speaking, their victims were politicians or clerics who refused to adopt the purified version of Islam the Assassins were spreading. Often these acts were carried out at religious sites and on holy days, to publicize their message. Like many religious inspired terrorist today, they viewed their deaths during such operations as sacrificial that guaranteed them paradise in the afterlife."

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