Mohamed Said
JF-Expert Member
- Nov 2, 2008
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"The United States is more concerned with international terrorism while Africa is obsessed with domestic terrorism.
The question which the United States should reflect upon is that why is it that the United States is considered a legitimate target for attack by terrorists?
In the answer probably lies the key to solving the problem. It is a pity that terrorism as a field of inquiry is yet to be taken up by actual victims of terrorism.
The inquiry has been monopolised by scholars from societies which at most have suffered one or two bomb attacks.
This erodes the realities of the subject as would be perceived by the actual victims of terrorism whose lives have seen nothing but sufferings.
Selective sampling will always as a rule provide wrong premise. Today the world knows what took place in Auschwitz from the victims who went through the extermination camps during the Holocaust.[1]
We are yet to get first hand experience of terrorism from those who had lived and experienced it in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nicaragua etc. documented with the same intensity as the world had documented the holocaust.''
(‘TERRORISM’ IN EAST AFRICA - THE TANZANIAN EXPERIENCE
Islam, Terrorism and African Development)
