I agree with the sentiment of fuck these people, but unfortunately that term lost all meaning a long time ago.
It can mean everything from this to 9/11 to protesting without a permit and disrupting local traffic and commerce to hyperbole in partisan disagreement to anything our government doesn’t like from any other entity to literally any revolution including our founding one.
Terrorism might as well be a synonym for yelling “booooooo!” at something, it doesn’t mean anything anymore, at least colloquially.
In the rarely used in public discourse academic, definitional sense, no these people wouldn’t qualify.
So a terrorist group?
Motive was child custody, not political.
Just ordinary crime from common criminals.
I agree with the sentiment of fuck these people, but unfortunately that term lost all meaning a long time ago.
It can mean everything from this to 9/11 to protesting without a permit and disrupting local traffic and commerce to hyperbole in partisan disagreement to anything our government doesn’t like from any other entity to literally any revolution including our founding one.
Terrorism might as well be a synonym for yelling “booooooo!” at something, it doesn’t mean anything anymore, at least colloquially.
In the rarely used in public discourse academic, definitional sense, no these people wouldn’t qualify.
There’s a massive amount of people who have turned religion into a political item, it’s not even a slight hop to read
and think that they were committing
It’s absolutely a hop because it’s not what they were doing. They were just a bunch of idiots.
Granted, that’s obvious with context, but conclusion jumping happens before context.