Can we really distinguish between crime and terrorism? Should we bother to try?

...Since the time of Mohammed, criminal activity against infidels has been a form of warfare. Islamic banditry and piracy strangled Mediterranean commerce in the second half of the first Millennium of the Common Era, so much so that it lead some writers to argue that it was the major factor that brought an end to the classical era and ushered in the dark ages.

Fresnozionism.org..
13 October '13..

On Friday, I mentioned the brutal murder of Sariya Ofer by Palestinian Arabs, who beat him to death with metal bars and axes.

The police have arrested several Arabs, two of whom have confessed. But the police have not said whether the motive was ‘nationalistic’ — in other words, terrorism — or criminal.

There is no difference, in any sense.

Since the time of Mohammed, criminal activity against infidels has been a form of warfare. Islamic banditry and piracy strangled Mediterranean commerce in the second half of the first Millennium of the Common Era, so much so that it lead some writers to argue that it was the major factor that brought an end to the classical era and ushered in the dark ages.

The so-called “Barbary Pirates,” whom the US Marines fought on the “shores of Tripoli” continued the tradition. These pirates, who captured ships primarily to take infidels as slaves, also raided coastal areas for the same purpose. The similarity with today’s terrorists — for example, the adoption of Western technology — and the huge scope of the problem are notable:

Mavi Marmara was hijacked by Islamist pirates, attacks on Israeli soldiers premeditated, new evidence suggests

Robin Shepherd
Think Tank Blog
11 June '10

Every piece of new evidence that has come to light since the Mavi Marmara incident last week has pointed in the same direction: Israeli soldiers were attacked by a lynch mob and fired their weapons in defence of their lives. Yet one question has remained unanswered: was this a spontaneous outpouring of anger by hot headed activists or was it planned in advance?

The “spontaneous outpouring” theory has recently emerged as a last line of defence for those, like most of Europe’s leaders, who leaped in the air to denounce Israel the moment the incident hit the headlines. If this was just a bunch of over-excited hotheads that still means that Israel should have shown more restraint.

But it now emerges that the whole thing was in fact premeditated.

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