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I don’t like you; you must be a terrorist

The disturbing practice of calling opposition groups and politicians terrorists is not only unhelpful but conducive to the undermining of democracy.

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December 16, 2014: Children killed in Yemen bombing

On December 16, 2014 AQAP detonated two car bombs in Radaa, a city in Yemen’s central province of al-Bayda, killing 25 people.

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December 13, 2001: Two terrorists groups attack Indian Parliament

On December 13, 2001 Pakistani terrorists attacked the Indian Parliament in Delhi, killing nine people.

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December 7, 2012: Mosque hit with a grenade attack in Kenya

On December 7, 2012 a grenade tossed near a mosque in the Eastleigh area of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, killed five and wounded at least eight.

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Is it time to drop terrorism from the Canadian Criminal Code?

When terrorism is applied to all kinds of criminal offences perhaps it is time to remove it from the criminal code: charges can be laid in other ways.

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November 24, 2002: Gunmen storm Hindu temple in India

On November 24, 2002 members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed a Hindu temple in Jammu, India, killing 14 worshipers and wounding another 45

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November 23, 2006: Car bombs target Shia Muslims in Iraq

On November 23, 2006 a series of car bombings struck Sadr City, a Shia dominated slum in Baghdad, killing 202 people and wounding another 250.

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Our struggles to define ‘terrorism’ continue…

Those who advocate or not so subtly justify the use of violence by environmental activists are terrorists, pure and simple.

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Changing the language we use to describe terrorism does not make countering it any easier

Recent initiatives in Western countries like Canada to eschew terms like Islamist terrorism are nothing more than useless and counterproductive bureaucratic exercises.

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When terrorists become rulers

Bringing in (former) terrorists to run nations is generally a very bad idea: terrorist groups are not even remotely qualified to do so.