Terrorism: an international conflict [FINAL]

Terrorism is a world-wide problem. It occurs everywhere, from local communities to the largest of cities. People from other beliefs form groups to rebel against certain things in society. It brings fear to nations that are enemies of their group. Their act of rebellion ranging from kidnapping to hijacking brings chaos to a country and innocent people are most likely the victims of their acts.

When certain groups see things that contradict their beliefs, they tend to fight for it. They use violent methods to silence anyone all who are against them. Usually, they are the cause behind many historical tragedies. These terrorist groups have different reasons as to why they perform rebellious acts. Most terrorists fight for their religion, which is very common in our generation. Their religion tells them to fight unbelievers (people who are not in their religion or those who do not follow their beliefs). With this in mind, Fanatics from their religion join their group to follow their beliefs. Others terrorist groups fight for their ideologies, ethnicity, and nationalism but they usually use violent methods in order to induce the change they want to see in the current society.

Terrorism brings fear to nations due to their frequent attacks on innocent people. Their attacks send a message to the government and the people, as they bring fear to the community. Terrorist groups want the people and the government to fear them in order to control their actions. In turn, this degrades our economy. People lose trust to those nations who have terrorists. Foreign investors fears to invest in our country due to their violent attacks. It would kill firms and business establishments in any country. Thus, the country’s growth is stunted.

Heavily influential, terrorism has greatly affected nations that have been in conflict resulting to war. Victims of terrorism are not limited to people alone, as even the ecosystem and the natural world as a whole are damaged in the process. Billions of dollars has been spent for ammunition during terrorist encounters. Despite the attempts to heal the heavy damages of terrorism on the world, future generations are still liable to suffer from terrorism.

However, we would not like the future generations to experience living in fear. Even so, children from terrorist groups are being trained to use firearms at a very early age. These children are trained to kill, educated to terrorize and are living a life to fight for their beliefs, or rather, the beliefs instilled into them by their parents. They will inherit the same concepts of their parents’ beliefs and will continue to pursue their goals. Sadly, terrorism will still exist in the succeeding generations.

Currently, Solutions are now undertaken by the international, national and local communities for they don’t want to be controlled by those terrorist groups. People should be aware that there are no exemptions in regarding who they will attack. Many organization and groups has ways to help in the prevention of terrorist attacks. Schools can educate people how deal in situations when the terrorist groups attacks. It can also educate children to develop love for the society and to be better citizens in their country. Business establishments tighten their security to prevent bombings. Our national security places checkpoints to various highways and posts the faces of the terrorist to warn people while our national army is planning man-hunt operations to certain terrorists and is in Mindanao to fight terrorist groups that harms the community. However, these solutions can only prevent terrorist attacks and protect the innocent people but it does not entirely wipe out terrorism.

Although certain acts are being done within the country, there have been suggestions to ban the religion Islam within the country despite it composing more or less ten percent of the religious population; kill every terrorist, or bomb Mindanao. In relation to religion, many believe that there should only be one religion. Consequently, if the country is ever going to implement such a tactic, a religious war could ensue. In terms of killing terrorists, such an act is at most, if not completely, impossible because these people disguise themselves as normal people in our society. As for bombing Mindanao, it’s a shallow reason and is highly homicidal, as many innocent people could be killed in the process. As others point out, Blood cannot be washed out with blood.

Terrorist groups fight for their beliefs. If they could just settle their beliefs in means that are less violent and try to understand how important life is, a peaceful resolution could be attained just like the first and second People Power Revolutions of the past.

-Yuri