Identify and Distinguish the Various Types of Terrorism
...igious views. One event happened very recently in Bali, an Indonesian island. On October 12, 2002 a bomb went off at a night club killing more than one hundred and eighty foreign tourists. The attack was done by an Islamic group called Jemaah Islamiyah who did this in order to drive away foreigners and ruin the nation’s economy so they can setup a Pan-Islamic nation in Indonesia. Political Terrorism is directed towards people who oppose the terrorist’s political beliefs. This type of terrorism does not try to replace the existing government, but tries to mold it into one that accepts their views. Examples of this include groups such as the Ku Klux Klan or the Oklahoma City Bombing. Nationalists Terrorism is used to promote the interests of certain minority and religious groups who feel that they are being discriminated against. This type of terrorism would seem like an everyday thing in the Middle East. In 2002 the Palestinians were trying to take back the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from the Israelis. During this time hundreds of people from both sides were killed during terrorist attacks and retaliation. Cause Based Terrorism is what the September 11th attacks are classified as. Terrorists groups, such as Al Qaeda, direct their activities towards people and governments that they do not like. Environmental Terrorism has grown large enough that the FBI now considers groups such as the Earth Liberation Front (EFL) as terrorists networks. Environmental Terrorist orchestrate acts that try to slow down developers who they believe are threatening the environment or harming animals. Although this may seem like a noble thing to do, acts such as these can cause plenty of damage to nature, some acts had an estimated...