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Originally Posted by White Doors
Before the Geneva convention was passed, there was no definition of terrorism. Note that chivalry and honour served in it's place before that time. Illegal combatants are terrorists. Plain and simple. We cannot pass 20th Century morality on 10th century Vikings.
If we did, we'd call most of the Indian tribes in North America terrorists.
And that simply is not the case.
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The Geneva convention has about as much relevance to Islamic fundamentalists as the UN has to neo-Conservatives. ie. It's good when it serves your own purposes, but easily ignorable every other time.
I'm sure you could go all around the world, and find many other definitions for terrorism outside of the European definition.