Terrorism is More Than Violence
You see, terrorism is not simply violence. It is not just an anti-abortionist firing on an OB/GYN or a Muslim convert shooting two U.S. soldiers taking a break outside of a recruitment facility or a white supremacist attacking a celebrated museum.
Terrorism includes the effect after the violence is committed. It includes the changes in society and the shifts in the consciousness of the people who wake up and go to sleep within the borders of that society on a daily basis.
Terrorism did not begin on September 11th. Yet, many American accepted the notion that we now live in a post-9/11 world. And, why do some believe we live in a post-9/11 world?
Why doesn’t anyone believe we live in a post-8/7 world? That’s the date when two U.S. embassies were bombed in Kenya and Tanzania.
Why doesn’t anyone believe we live in a post-4/19 world? That’s the date when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a car bomb killing 168 people in Oklahoma City.
Why doesn’t anyone believe we live in a post-2/26 world (when the World Trade Center basement garage was bombed by militant Islamists), a post-12/21 world (when a New York-bound Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded from a terrorist bomb), or a post-11/4 world (when Iranian radical students seized a U.S. embassy and took 66 people hostage)?
Could it possibly be because after each of those incidents Americans returned to their everyday lives in the same way that we all have gone back to business as usual after the recent attacks over the past 10 days?
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