Physical Description:print 170 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2005.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Basis of religious terror: Religious basis of terrorism / Andrew Sinclair -- Assassins killed to reach Islamic paradise / Marco Polo -- Crusades: terror in the name of Christianity / James Reston, Jr. -- State-sponsored terror: Terror is essential to revolutionary progress / Maximilien Robespierre -- Terrorism againt the Jews in Warsaw / SS Officer Stroop -- Stalin's Great Terror violated Communist principles / Nikita Khrushchev -- Terror in the name of national liberation: Terror in opposition to colonial rule / Algerian National Liberation Front -- Terrorism in the struggle for Israel / Menachem Begin -- Palestinian revolutionaries are freedom fighters, not terrorists / Yasir Arafat -- Taking up arms for Irish independence / Lawrence McKeown -- Terrorism and the United States: American slavery is a form of terrorism / New York Daily Times -- 1960s counterculture gave rise to the leftist terrorists -- U.S. government lacks the moral authority to condemn terrorists / Timothy McVeigh -- Muslims are obligated to kill Americans / al Qaeda -- America must fight Islamic terrorists / George W. Bush -- America is a terrorist state / Noam Chomsky -- Debating the definition of terrorism: Nature and causes of international terrorism / United Nations -- Myths about terrorism / Walter Laqueur -- Terrorism is a meaningless label / John Collins -- Most textbooks fail to correctly define terrorism / Stanley Michalak -- Chronology.
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