Terrorists or Freedom Fighter?

I am sick and tired about hearing how people from Afghanistan, Iraq %26amp; Palestine are Terrorists.


This is not true, they are simply fighting for their own freedom.





If another country invaded us would you accept it and get on with life? Or will you be tough and fight for your freedom, your pride?





Going out to Iraq is not fighting for your own country, it%26#039;s called terrorism because that is what we are doing right now.. invading other countries and then killing their people!





You fight for your own country IN your own country, not in other countries. It was our choice to be there, we could easily have walked away.





Your thoughts?
Terrorists or Freedom Fighter?
I agree with the idea of them fighting for their freedom, its just the innocent being killed riles me.
Terrorists or Freedom Fighter?
well u r right but not all Terrorists r Freedom Fighters, some do it because they want people 2 beleve in what they beleve in.
Reply:when america yook up arms against the english it was called a revolution. after over 800 years of foreign invasion when the irish did the same thing it was branded terrorism. how can you be a terrorist in your own country looking down the barrel of an invading gun.
Reply:Everybody wants to be left alone - including decent people, robbers, rapists and killers. You earn being left alone by behaving well and in concert with others. Otherwise yoiu are subject to intrusion, such as receiving a speeding ticket from a cop, or a military intervention from the rest of the world.
Reply:I agree with you, when ever people are allways like,%26quot;They are horrible people! Those Freaking Iraq soldiers!%26quot; I usally think well we do the same thing, we bomb, we shoot guns, and we kill. But no one ever says anything about that!
Reply:i don%26#039;t know what to think any more.


i%26#039;m sick to





i agree but i also disagree.


for various reasons





i%26#039;ve been called a terrorist and stuff when i%26#039;m only a 15 year old girl and people have just started generalising that all muslims are terrorists and islam is a religion of terror. when it%26#039;s a bit clear that we%26#039;re not. it%26#039;s just those people fighting for they%26#039;re counrty who happen to be muslims.


us muslims do everything in the name of allah- even going to the loo in the name of allah. and just because those %26#039;freedom fighters%26#039; say they are doing it in the name of allah, doesn%26#039;t mean they are doing it because allah said so, because he didn%26#039;t.


it%26#039;s just a praise sort of thing.





and becuase they are making islam look bad. i don%26#039;t like what they are doing


but then again they should defend there counrty because no one else will.


know what i mean?
Reply:Whether someone is labeled as a Terrorist or a Freedom Fighter depends on your point of view. A terrorist is a freedom fighter who is fighting against you, and a freedom fighter is a terrorist who is fighting for you.





The definitions are so ambiguous that neither term can be clearly defined. So I guess that all we can do is to drop the labels altogether and start to think about what are the motives behind the actions.





Labeling people as %26quot;terrorists%26quot; gives us justification to hate them, and to treat them as enemies, and to do immoral things to them, because the term carries negative connotations with it. The US would not be in Iraq or Afghanistan if the label had never been accepted by the american people. As it is, some people do not accept the label, and thus we have opposing viewpoints on the issue.





The bottom line, for me, will be that %26quot;terrorists%26quot; and %26quot;freedom fighters%26quot; and everyone else in the world, are just people, and as people we respond to the situations that we are faced with.
Reply:it is not freedom fighter or terrorism it is money


every war has to be profitable in order to continue. period.
Reply:A terrorist is someone who is spreading terror, a freedom fighter is someone who is fighting for freedom. Why would a British Muslim convert be fighting for the freedom of another country? The groups of soldiers in their country are fighting for freedom, although some of the groups, like Al%26#039;Qieda, are not, they are fighting for Islam, which isn%26#039;t even involved with the wars. Our soldiers are not terrorists, they are soldiers who are fighting for the freedom of oppressed nations, i don%26#039;t really care if they are or not, we are at war, that%26#039;s the end of it. We call it the War in Iraq, because the enemy is IN Iraq. Our soldiers ARE fighting for OUR country because they were sent by their country.
Reply:this is all simply human nature.





when two sides are fighting we tend to mark the problem as good vs evil, but the interesting thins is that both sides will claim to be the good and their opponents evil. So in your case, the so called terrorists are our enemies and we call them evil because we are good but the terrorists call themselves %26quot;freedom fighters%26quot; and they call us intruders, invaders, and crusaders. So the stream runs both paths.





choose your side carefully because your opponent has already chosen yours
Reply:I think part of the problem lies in the definition of %26quot;terrorist.%26quot; This word has a very negative and specific connotation in our modern culture. However, tactics that could be deemed the use of terrorist acts have been used throughout history in every situation imaginable. Terrorism was used against Hitler to bring down his regime, but obviously people were fighting for freedom there too. I think that a lot of these people are absolutely %26quot;freedom fighters%26quot; and have every right to want us out of their country, but they might also use what we consider %26quot;terrorist%26quot; tactics to accomplish their goal. As long as they target those responsible for their plight and avoid hurting the innocent, they are justified.
Reply:unfortunatley not many of the combatants in iraq are iraqi civillians a lot are from ourside iraq who are fighting for their own agenda or for control of the new iraq rather than for homeland defence





dont get me wrong im very against the war but some of the insurgents are genuine islamic extremists who carry out suicide bombings on iraqi civillians hence they can be called terrorists however the blanket term insurgents is usually applied rather than terrorists as this covers all aspects of the insurgency including pacifist cells





so in short insurgent is most likley the correct term but because some insurgents participate in terrorist action it would not be entirely wrong to refer to insurgents as terrorists
Reply:how you use words defines your political position in the world, terror is essentially a right wing word while freedom fighter is used more so by those of a left wing persuasion...
Reply:One man%26#039;s terrorist is another man%26#039;s freedom fighter and many freedom fighters experience state terrorism.


I do have a problem when freedom fighters start exporting their actions.


How can killing innocent people in foreign countries help their cause? It alienates those who are sympathetic. The German wife of a British soldier, was killed when his car was blown up by IRA terrorists in Germany. Up to then, Germany had been sympathetic to the %26#039;Irish%26#039; problem, but that attack caused them to think again.





Going back to Iraq, when thousands of Kurds were killed in Halabja in1988, no other country protested. Saddam Husein was a %26#039;great guy%26#039;, who was fighting Iran an could do no wrong.


Now, the US with UK support have invaded Iraq, brought about the execution of Saddam Hussein ... and that%26#039;s about it. The Iraqi people are in a worse situation than they were before 2003. Terrorism is rife. And Al Quaida has much more evidence to convince the disenchanted, that terrorism is the only way out of the situation.
Reply:freedom fighters





I live in Northern Ireland





and I%26#039;m a Catholic





I can identify with those %26quot;terrorists%26quot;
Reply:true true but what is your opinion of Ernesto %26#039;Che%26#039; Guevara who was an argintine who was intrusmental in the liberation of cuba and failed attempts to liberate the peoples of congo and bolivia? was he not a terrorist then? granted he did execute many capitalist sympathisers but is the icon of liberation in cuba and all of latin america