Waleed Aly's Argument Against Terrorism

SIS, al-qaeda, Taliban. No doubt you’ve seen these names in the media for all the wrong reasons and every year thousands of innocent people lose their lives to the hands of these terrorist organisations. Terrorism is a growing concern to all corners of the world and is continuously threatening many religious, racial and political ways of life. A dramatic increase of the occurrence and severity of terrorism attacks is leaving effects on the world community as well as our Australian country, but terrorism is something we as country should not live in fear from.

Terrorism is a horrific bloody battle fought with extreme violence and the intentions to harm many civilians to bring about social, religious or political change. The unlawful attacks
William Beeman, chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Minnesota describes the motives of terrorist groups, ISIS in particular as the desire for a one race world. “They would like the entire world to be Muslim, but they want the world to be Muslim in a very, very narrowly defined manner." Extremists like ISIS have grown in strength and power because they are using terror attacks like, hostages, bombings, attacks, suicide bombers, threats and massacres to scare people into supporting them. THE PROJECT reporter, Waleed Aly believes terrorism organisations like ISIS are trying to bring Muslims to turn on their adopted country. “They want all of us to become hostile and here is why, this “evil organisation” believe if they can make Muslims the enemy of the West, then Muslims … will have nowhere
Members of South Australia's Muslim community are being attacked through online media and verbal abuse in response to the recent world terror attacks. The constant attacking is feeding directly into what terrorism organisations want, a strong divide between Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Mount Gambier's Iraqi-born Gala Mustafa describes her fear of being targeted because of their culture "We watch the news and look at each other and say 'what will happen tomorrow?' Straight away we expect the next day, one of us will be attacked." This is exactly what terror organisations want and we need to stop different culture communities turning on each