What is terrorism?

When "insurgents" behead innocent working men who are supporting their families by buidling roads, that is terrorism.

The twentieth century had murderous terrorists take over many countries in the name of many utopian ideas: Fascism, Nazism, and especially communism. And the reason some people call present day terrorism "Islamofascism" is that these groups have more in common with Soviet funded terror groups than with Islam.

And, like the communist groups, they work on many levels, not just terror, but thru Saudi funded mosques that preach extremism, and through elites who push their agenda at the level of government. The dirty little secret is that these groups could not exist without funding, either official or via "charities", from other governments. Without Soviet backing, the local NPA has degenerated into a Mafia type gang, and these groups also would be more of a murderous gang without the careful guidance and funding of their actions.

So when a car bomb by a group with only a few thousand adherents can make the Democrats decide "the war is lost", while not even mentioning sadness for the innocent civilians killed trying to shop for food, one wonders where is their priorities. Let the murders win? Are you nuts?

When you say such things, you are essentially telling the worst type of murderers that it is okay to murder in the future to gain power, and telling rogue states that preach murder as a way to extend their utopian ideology that terror works, encouraging them to fund even more terror to extend their aims.

But of course, these terrorists won't shoot up malls in Utah (one mixed up teenager tried it, and was promptly shot dead, if you remember.) They will be bombing ferries in the Philippines and beheading teachers in Thailand.