This article is important for a significant number of factors. First, it is a perfect example of how Al-Qaeda and other similar terrorist organizations use the internet for propaganda and publicity towards their cause. Second, it helps debunk the myth that most terrorists are poor and uneducated. And third, it throws light on the fact that terrorists use the technological means available to achieve their objectives and that the media is indispensable to spreading their cause.
This leads me to speculate about the extent to which modernity is both a cause and a means of terrorism. I believe that it may be a cause because terrorism is in many ways a response to western cultural imperialism, be it the colonization of foreign territories or signing of treaties which allow one ethnic group to usurp the homeland belonging to another ethnic nationality(for example: Israel) . Similarly, I believe that advances in the field of communication and transportation have been used by terrorists as a means to gain publicity towards their cause.
This may be something we want to think about as a class.
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