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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
Don't misunderstand what I am about to say, because I condemn terrorism unreservedly...... but..... almost all freedoms, as someone pointed out in another thread, have been won through bloodshed. Terrorists ARE freedom fighters, whether we consider their actions justified or not.
For example, in America it was not just peaceful protest that got human rights for black Americans, but also violence.... In India, it was not only peaceful protest that won freedon from British rule, but also violence....
I don't approve of violence. Too many get killed who do not deserve it. But I have a little understanding, I think, of the motivation for terrorism. It is a natural human desire for freedom and security and justice.
We will never get rid of terrorists until we get rid of the injustices that cause and perpetuate it.
Miss Fljotsdale ma'am, I don't know if anyone had pointed this out to you but it was the PEACEFUL PROTESTS that brought about civil rights for American citizens that happen to have dark pigmented skin! For those American citizens to act in anyother way would have been their movement's demise. Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered and revered for his peaceful actions.
Whose injustice? The injustice that the terrorist proceives(sp?)to justify their actions? Does that not create a new injustice to be proceived by the other side!