The Other Face
of Terrorism
by Raheel Raza
• April 18, 2015 at 5:00 am
We live
in a country where we embrace liberal democracy, gender equality, freedom of
speech and individual freedoms, so we naïvely think that everyone who comes
here has the same values. Wrong. Those are the very values that the
terrorists abhor.
We must
be aware that there are organizations and individuals right here in the
United States and Canada who have exactly the same ideology as Boko Haram,
the Taliban and ISIS. The only difference is these North American
organizations are required to follow the law of the land.
In many
instances, these subversive organizations have succeeded in suppressing free
speech by aggressively intimidating academic institutions.
This
threatening, silencing and censoring is the other face of terrorism.
According to a UNICEF report published this week, an estimated 800,000
children in and around Nigeria were forced from their homes by Boko Haram
extremists. This report was published almost a year after the mass
kidnappings of nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok. There are reports that
many of these kidnapped girls were terrorized, raped and later forced to
marry their captors.
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