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Understanding Terrorism
Fall, 2015
Jim Bolner, Sr., Teacher ~ jimbolnersr @ cox.net
OUTLINE
I. Defining Terrorism
Examining the word
What terrorism is and what it is not
Understanding how we think about terrorism
II. The Roots of Terrorism
Reflections on human nature and history
Tribalism: a key to understanding politics
Religion and the search for meaning
The competition for economic resources
III. Political Terrorism
The search for human order
Power and its exercise
The appeal of violence
IV. Religious Terrorism
Religious intolerance and religious tolerance
The appeal of the secular
Contemporary religious terrorism
V. Counter-terrorism
Methods of counter-terrorism
Evaluating counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism and individual liberties
VI. The Future of Terrorism
Are there bases for hope for ending
terrorism?
Terrorism and the future of the nation
state
Terrorism, technology, and morals
RESOURCES ON THE
INTERNET RELATING TO TERRORISM
Defining Terrorism
Definitions of "Terrorism" - from
OneLook.com
Roots of Terrorism - from PBS
"Terrorism" -
Wikipedia - January 17, 2015
Thomas Hobbes, "The Natural Condition of Mankind
As Concerning Their Felicity and Misery," from
Leviathan, Ch. 13
- from Bartleby.com
Thomas Hobbes's Famouse Passage on the State of
Nature, Leviathan,
ch. 13.
What Is Terrorism? - The Sage Foundation
Terror - from Dictionary.Reference.com
Terrorism - from the Online Etymology
Dictionary
Terrorism Studies
Terrorism
Research - from International Terrorism and Security Research - January
20, 2015
An
Online Research Center on the Theory ... of Anarchism - January 17, 2015
Teaching Guide on International Terrorism -
from the U.S. Institute for Peace
TED Talks on
Terrorism (January 17, 2015)
James Fallows, Review of Karen Armstrong's book,
Fields of Blood (2015)
Terrorism Timeline - Last 20 Years - from
The Wall Street Journal - January, 2015
Political Terrorism: Theory, Tactics, and
Counter-terrorism - from the Library of
Congress
Religion and
Terrorism
Graeme Wood,
"What ISIS Really Wants" -- The Atlantic
- March, 2015
The Evolution of Islamic Terrorism - from
Frontline
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
Why Islam Needs a Reformartion
- March 21,
2015 - from The Wall Street Journal
Religious Terrorism - from Sage Publications
Islam's Reformation May Be a Long Time Coming
- from the Wall Street JHournal (Letter to the
Editor)
On the Impossibility of Fighting ISIS - from
The Atlantic - March, 2015
DABIQ - The Islamic State's Magazine
Jihadology -
a website devoted to studying jihadism
Counter-terrorism
Former M16 Chief John Sawers: Terror Has Become
Tougher to Stop - from CNN - September 13,
2015
The National Security Archive - from George
Washington University
Terrorism Timeline in or Against the United
States - from Infoplease
The 9-11 Attachs - Video - from the History
Channel
Financing Terrorism - from the U.S. Treasury
Department
Peace and Corrupton - from World Vision
National
Anti-Terrorism Centter
Stuart Taylor, Jr.,
The Big Snoop - from the Brookings
Institution
Canadian Prime Minister Harper Calls for
Expanded Terror Laws - added February 2,
2015
FBI Terrorism Website
UN Actions to Combat
Terrorism - January 17, 2015
Recently Added Items
Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood (2014)
- Google Books
Bill Warner, Jihad versus The Crusades
- Video
Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism (2015) -
Google Books
Brigette Gabriel , Because They Hate (2008)
Google Books
Spencer, A Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
and the Crusades (2008) - Google Books
Sharia - Wikipedia
Sharia Law in the United States 101: What It Is
and Why States Want to Ban It - from the
Huffington Post
David Ignatius, "The Emerging Threat of the Lone
Wolf in the Fight Against Terror," - from
the Washington Post, July 23, 2015
The
Quran _ from mclearquran.org [English
translation, with audio]
The Quran
- Chronological Order
Sunnah - from sunnah.com [Sayings of the
Prophet Muhammed]
Vocabulary Relating to Understanding Terrorism
- PDF
Vocabulary Related to
Understanding Terrorism - Word
The Story of Haggar and Ishmael
Hagar - from Wikipedia
Genesis 16 - the story of Ishmael and Hagar
Religious Commitment - re: data on Muslims in
the United States - from the Pew Research
Center
World's Muslims: Religion, Politics, and Society
- from the Pew Research Center
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of
Civilizations?" - Foreign Affairs -
1991
Wahabism - from Wikipedia
Louise
Richardson, ed., Roots of Terrorism (2013) -
Google Books
Louise
Richardson, What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Google
Books
Jonathan Sacks,
How to
Defeat Religious Violence - from The Wall
Street Journal, October 3, 2015
Robert Spencer,
The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS - from
Google Books
9-11 Video - from military.com
9-11 Video - from history.com
The World's Muslims: Religions, Politics, and
Sociey - from the PEW Research Center
Vocabulary - from Wikipedia
ISIL IS, Daesh - All this explained...
Secretary of
State John Kerry's Use of Daesh - from The
Washington Post , December 5, 2014
Terrorist Attacks Agains the West - from
Mark Humpreys
Jihadistm: Tracking a Month of Deadly Attacks - November, 2014
- from the BBC
Map of the Middle East - from Google
The Spread of Islam - from mapsontheweb.com
A History of the Umayyads - from the Saylor
Foundation (saylor.org)
The
War on Terror - from Wikipedia
Reactions to the September 11, 2001, Attacks
- from Wikipedia
List of Armed Groups in the Syrian Civil War
- from Wikipedia
Jihad in Syria - from the Institute for the
Study of War
The Future of Innovative Counter-Terrorism
Technologies- from the Heritage Foundation
The Report of the 9-11 Commission - August,
2004
Big List of Muslim Terrorist Attacks in the U.S.
Since 9-11 - July, 2015
Gus Martin, Violence in the Name of Faith (Sage
Publications, 2015) -
Sage Publications on Terrorism
Malese Ruthven, Review of "Inside the Islamic
State" - from The New York Review of
Books, July 2, 2015
Abdel Bari Atwan,
ISIS: The Digital Caliphate - Google Books
Interview with Abdel Bari Atwan, Author of
"ISIS: The Digital Caliphate" - Video
Foreign Terrorist Organizations - from the
U.S. State Department
Treatment of Foreign Fighters in Selected
Jurisdictions - December, 2015 - from the
Law Library of the U.S. Congress
FBI Terrorist Screening Center
Blocked Persons List - from the U.S.
Department of the Treasury Office of Assets
Control
Office of Foreign Assets Control - Sanctions
Programs and Information - from the
Department of the Treasury
Global Terrorism Index - 2015 - from the
Institute for Economics and Peace
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