www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, cost the lives of thousands of innocent people. This terrible savagery once more revealed a great danger to the peace and brotherhood of man: Terrorism. Terrorism General Terrorism is a crime against humanity. It targets innocent people. Its aim is to spread fear in society by killing people, and thus to draw strength for its political wishes. Different ideologies have resorted to terrorism in the past: The Jacobins, who carried out the French Revolution, first used the concept of terrorism during 'The period of terror' when thousands of people were sent to the guillotine. From the 1870s on, the racist Ku Klux Klan in the United States ruthlessly tortured and killed many people just because they were black. Racist terrorism came to be state policy in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. The Nazis implemented a bloody policy of terror against all those they saw as opposed to them, beginning with the Jews. During those same years, another ideology also implemented state terrorism. Some 40 million people were killed during Stalin's bloody reign in the Soviet Union for falling foul of communist ideology. Communist terrorism emerged in Europe in the 1960s. This time, organizations opposed to the state began shedding blood. The Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Fraction in Germany carried out numerous bombings, armed attacks and killings. The coming ...