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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Is it etymologically related, in the way that “salaam” and “shalom” are, or is this just a particularly spicy coincidence?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The terror org Hamas's name is an acronym, but was afterwards glossed to mean strength or zeal. That vaguely fits, so maybe? But I'm no expert on Proto-Semitic etymology.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Terror org? The fuck? I didn't realize that fighting for your freedom from a brutal oppressor made you a terror org.

Do you call native Americans terrorists too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If native Americans today did organised attacks on Americans it would be considered terrorism in pretty sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stupid Natives doing terror attacks on those peaceful Americans that God promised the land to because they were white.

Good thing Americans defended themselves into coincidentally taking over all of America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True, colonialism bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Terrorism, according to Wikipedia, is "the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims."

Hamas is doing that, see examples.

I frankly don't see, whatever its goals, how systematically attacking civilians can not be terrorism. (Since Native Americans to my knowledge don't do that, I wouldn't call them terrorists, no).

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