Can terrorism ever be justified?

Before I start to discuss terrorism, I should define it: terrorism is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

Some people would say that as long as you are doing it for a good cause it does not matter what you do. I disagree. For example, if I would want something, and you were in my way, is it fair that I terrorise you? You, an innocent person, who lives a very different life, who might have a family, should die so I get what I want. That is not fair.

How can you justify terrorism? How can you say that it is okay to murder people because you want to send a message? Some organizations bomb places or murder innocent people because the country they live in is in turmoil and they blame others, like USA. USA have been involved in many wars on foreign soil, and the terrorist thinks that it is fair to murder civilian because of American involvement. The call it holy war, Jihad, and justify terror by saying it is the will of god. I strongly disagree.

The organization called IS, they are beheading good people who try to help the poor and innocent people in Syria. Last month the IS beheaded a journalist named James Foley. The only reason they murdered him was that he was American and they wanted to send a message to USA, so they would stop fighting against them.

I feel so sorry for the people who feel like they have to murder people to get what they want. I cannot possible imagine what went wrong when those human beings grew up. How can a man take someone else life and when did he decide to play god whit others life? Every man and woman on this earth should be allowed to live a full life, and some terrorist should not take that away from him or her.

My question to you is; how can you achieve peace when you terrorise and murder innocent people? Is it not much better to communicate with each other? 

What we did on Monday the 27th of Ocotber:

We started the lesson with reading a poem called "Global Village" by a Nigerian author called Yusufu M. Adamu. Then we discussed what the meaning of the poem was. In my opinion, the message in the poem is that we are all the same, even though we look different on the outside and live in different countries. Every person should have the right to be respected.

We walked around in the classroom and read the poem aloud, it was actually fun.

Then there was a poem called "The Right Word" by Pakistan/British writer named Imtiaz Dharker. We read it to ourselves and then we discussed it a bit. The poem was about terrorism, and asking who the terrorists are. That turns out to be a difficult question, because it can be anyone and not just the person who has the “scary looks”. Everyone in the class got one stanza each, except the readers, and made a little play.

At the end of the class, we discussed terrorism.

When we talked about the poems we analysed them and used questions from Gro's blog.

http://oystesegymnasenglish.blogspot.no/p/poetry.html

Task 2 page 178
Look back on the list on page 175 ("Seven ways to be heard"). Which of these methods does Malin use in her role as Amnesty activist?

Malin used method 7: Influence the authorities.
She was one of many Amnesty activist who sendt letters to Ethiopian authorities, because they wanted to release an Ethopian woman. She was a judge, who became unpopular with the government. She was thrown into prison for expressing her opinion.

Amnesty International uses method 2: Use social media.

Wednesday 5th of November

We started the day with finding information about a business. My group was given the task to find information about Dalen. Lars Henrik, Bennetta and I worked together and gathered interesting facts about Dalen. The other groups was finding facts about Esso, Fjellstrand and Bjølvefossen.

After gathering information, we made a PowerPoint and presented it in front of the class. The others had also informative presentation.

We ate lunch and then watched a movie called The Woolf of Wall Street. It was an interesting movie about economy and stock market. 

It was a fun day!