Contains twenty essays that provide various perspectives on terrorism, discussing the basis of religious terror, state-sponsored terror, terrorism in the name of national liberation, terrorism and the United States, and the nature and causes of terrorism.
Content Note
THE BASIS OF RELIGIOUS TERROR: The religious basis of terrorism / Andrew Sinclair -- The Assassins killed to reach Islamic paradise / Marco Polo -- The 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 -- The 1960s counterculture gave rise to the leftist terrorists -- The 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: The 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.