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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
What does financial gain have to do with anything? If some organization flew planes into buildings for financial gain, then you wouldn't consider that a terrorist act? I certainly would.
Terrorists do not care about settling land? Where did you get that idea? The IRA, the former ETA, and Tamil Tigers all care about settling land - I guarentee you that. As well, one of Al Qaeda's prime goals is to disperse western influence from the Middle East, and declare a pan-Islamic state from Afghanistan to Israel. How is that different from colonialists dispersing native civilians by the use of violence in order to create a country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The are both forms of Manifest Destiny.
I hope you don't get everything from Wikipedia. It's a good general source, but what they say is not always accurate.
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I was looking for a good definition. It was quick and easy. Feel free to provide another.
I will concede the land issue to a point. But you idea that settlers were in anyway similar to terorists is silly. Yes the ultimate goal of those terrorists are about territory but the removal of another from territory they beleive to be their own. Their methods are not about occuppying land after they make a terrorist attack. Tamils have a military that fights for land....they use suicide bombers to scare their opposition. Not for territorial gain.