| Titlu: | Suicide Bombings: The Ultimate Weapons of (British) Radical Fundamentalism |
| Autor: | Valentina Georgescu |
| Publicația: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 1, p. 386 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Editura: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Locul: | Pitești |
| Anul: | 2005 |
| Rezumat: | According to a widespread belief, what makes information good or bad, accurate or inaccurate is closely linked to the needs of the society in which information is produced. A constant need of contemporary society is to confront an ever-increasing reality, i.e. man’s increasing appetite for violence as the most efficient means of socialising with the others. All domains of human existence, the social-political one included, have fallen prey to this attitude. An extreme form of political violence, terrorism (suicide terrorism in particular as an ever-widening phenomenon) provides our main point of interest here. The paper as a whole makes a direct address to this widely debated topic by stressing the idea of suicide terrorism as the reckless sacrifice of one’s life in the process of destroying or attempting to destroy a political target. The 7th of July attacks on London assumed the “symbolic” significance of the first terrorist attacks of religious orientation on European soil and they constitute the particular case I have chosen to illustrate the fact that present-day technologically-advanced societies are most vulnerable and quite unprepared to deal with such extremist gestures, superimposed on radical fundamentalist beliefs. |
| Cuvinte-cheie: | terrorism, suicide bombings, radical fundamentalism, myth |
| Limba: | engleză |
| Linkuri: |  pdf  html |
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