"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise mind man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this." John Stuart Mills. Terrorism is one of the biggest problems in the world primarily because of opposing viewpoints or conflicts (which generate because abundant diverse people have different lifestyles, religions, beliefs and cultures), fear and media also play a great factor in terrorism.
             First of all we must define terrorism. Although there is no universal accepted definition for the word terrorism, if you pick up a dictionary it would probably read this: "The systematic use of terror as a means of coercion." In other words we could say that terrorism can be generally describe as the systematic use of random violence (against innocents) in order to bring about or make a point of view come across and change something (sometimes politically) through fear, intimidation or force. However Rex A. Hudson, the author of Who becomes a Terrorist and why, points out that the "definitions of terrorism vary widely and are usually inadequate. Even terrorism researchers often neglect to define the term." There's this common saying that "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" with this in mind looking through the eyes of a Middle East person there's a slightly distinction of what they think terrorism is, or who they think
             is a terrorist. I would even bet that the definition on their dictionary about terrorism is probably different from ours. That is if they have a dictionary. Many believe that a mid-eastern person would even accuse the U.S. government of being and acting in terrorist ways. Obviously there are strong opposing viewpoints here to disc...