The Terror of Terrorism [FINAL]

Terrorism is the use of threat or violence. In our life today, we can’t really say that we are in complete safety because of the terrorist groups/acts that lurks around us, because of terrorism we react to their terror and out of fear make our society less open. Terrorism is not only about physical damage, death and destruction. It is also about destroying something inside of the people which is its entire way of thinking that reacts to chaos.


One problem that the world face today is the group called Al-Qaeda. It is an international Sunni Islamic movement founded in 1988. Al-Qaeda has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries, and the most memorable attack they have done is the events during September 11, 2001 in the Twin Towers, New York City. Their characteristics include suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets. “Their objectives include the end of foreign influence in Muslim countries and the creation of a new Islamic caliphate or the political leadership of the Muslim community”(www.wikipedia.com). Another belief is that Christian-Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam and that killing of the opposed groups and the civilians is Islamically justified in jihad.


These actions were followed by the US government launching a military and intelligence campaign against al-Qaeda called the “War on Terror”. US government and other helping agencies make a move to lessen the threats to people. They provide support and security to the people and other trainings that are necessary for counter terrorism. They also ask the help of other countries to eliminate the group Al-Qaeda, but even with the help of other country, terrorism continue to elevate and more innocent people are being involve in the attacks of the terrorist.


Terrorism also occurs on our own country, one example is the group of Abu Sayyaf. One attempt they had done is when they kidnapped 2 tourists in Dos Palmas, Palawan and they are asking for ransom for them to release the kidnapped tourist. Because of that act, many tourist spot places in our country are not being able to go because of the possibility that terrorist groups will kidnap them. Another group is the MILF in Mindanao, they had been killing Philippine soldiers and involving innocent persons because of the disagreement between the MILF and the Philippine government.


President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo have been doing a lot of actions to solve the problem. She has been asking help for other alliance country for support, she have a military government to respond in the act of Abu Sayyaf and other groups and she had done peace agreement many times to the opposing team, but the war in Mindanao is still continuing.


Terrorism is not only the work of big groups of people but also by small unit of people in the streets like gang war, drug dealing, different illegal recruiters - example is in OFW, stealling, kidnapping, and more. Local governments have been responding to this acts by stop checks in certain streets where they inspect different motorist, raiding the places where drugs are being sold and created, and helping the OFW like what Manny Villar is doing, and more. These may look like simple acts but as we know, it creates an impact to our society.


As a normal person, we could create changes that would lessen terrorism, like what Dr. Jose Rizal said: "The youth are the key to success", by cooperating with the government like reporting suspicious acts, or if you were the witness in a certain acts, you will be able to improve to countries progress even if what you are doing are good simple tasks.