Quote:This is partly true, and it's origin is admittedly tied to government. However, the modern use of the word in linguistics does not distinctly tie governments to the act.


I think we can agree on that.

The modern use of the word is still the same as that no? Violence used to further a political or ideological goal?


So a group created to illegally further political or ideological goals through violence and intimidation is a terrorist group.


The broad point of what I am trying to say goes back to Ireland again. The IRA to me were heroes and freedom fighters who fought tooth and nail to gain independence from a foreign power. To most British people they were terrorists just like the Taliban and ISIS


To many people in the middle east he Taliban and ISIS are/were freedom fighters. They have a foreign power occupying their land and they want them gone. Same as the IRA. To them the USA are terrorists who have no right to bomb the area where they live just like whoever flew the planes on 9/11 had no right to crash into the twin towers.

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