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Ethnically-motivated terrorism (also Ethnic terrorism or racial terrorism) involves frequent attacks on foreign-born immigrants and ethnic minorities, motivated by racism and xenophobic hatred. Some notable examples include far-right extremist groups like Neo-Nazis, and all others who engage in violent acts of ethnically-motivated terrorism. The Oxford English Dictionary defines terrorism as a policy intended to strike with terror those against whom it is adopted; the employment of methods of intimidation; the fact of terrorizing or condition of being terrorized. ...
One 1988 study by the US Army [1] found that over 100 definitions of the word terrorism have been used. ...
There are eleven major multilateral international conventions related to states responsibilities for combating terrorism. ...
Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ...
A terrorist organisation is an organisation that engages in terrorist tactics, they are also (perhaps more neutrally) referred to as militant organisations. ...
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. ...
Nationalist terrorism is a form of terrorism through which participants attempt to form an independent state against what they consider an occupying, imperial, or otherwise illegitimate state. ...
Religious terrorists use violence to further what they see as divinely commanded purposes. ...
Left-wing terrorism may be defined as violence committed by groups or individuals on the political left in order to achieve a political goal through the creation of fear. ...
Right-wing terrorism, is reactionary violence to what is seen as perceived threats to a groups value system. ...
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Narcoterrorism is a term coined by former President Belaunde Terry of Peru in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nations anti-narcotics police. ...
Domestic terrorism is a phrase used to describe some acts of political violence within a state that are carried out or commissioned by forces inside or originating from that state, as opposed to external attacks. ...
Anarchism is a range of political views whose name is derived from the Latin word anarchia which was first employed in translating Aristotles Greek term αναÏÏία (the privative prefix αν an- without is combined with αÏÏία arkhê â meaning command or rule). Thus anarchism, in the most generally understood sense of the term...
Political terrorism is a form of terrorism (a tactic of violence that targets civilians) used to influence socio-political events so that gains occur that might not have otherwise happened by peaceful means. ...
The term eco-terrorism is a neologism which has been used to describe threats and acts of violence (both against people and against property), sabotage, vandalism, property damage and intimidation committed in the name of environmentalism. ...
Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. ...
Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a very public manner. ...
A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ...
A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property carried out in a way deliberately calculated to cause the death of the perpetrator (see suicide, suicide weapons). ...
Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally-occurring or human-modified toxin or biological agent. ...
Nuclear terrorism can be used to describe any of the following terrorist assaults: Use of nuclear weapons against a civilian target Use of a radiological weapon or dirty bomb against a civilian target An attack against a nuclear power plant Some believe that no such act has ever taken place. ...
Cyber-terrorism is terrorism that uses cracking over computer networks and Internet-based attacks in the service of terrorism. ...
A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities. ...
Lone-wolf terrorism takes place outside a command structure and may be unaccountable to the claimed collective cause of a group. ...
Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...
In sociology and in voting theory, a minority is a sub-group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it. ...
A black man drinks out of a water fountain designated for black people in 1939 at a streetcar terminal. ...
Xenophobia means fear of strangers or the unknown and comes from the Greek ξενοφοβια, xenophobia, literally meaning fear of the strange. It is often used to describe fear of or dislike of foreigners, but racism in general is sometimes described as a form of xenophobia, as are such prejudices as...
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The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...
Violence is a general term to describe actions, usually deliberate, that cause or intend to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. ...
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