From BBC News on the San Bernardino, CA December 2015 killings:…

Question Answered step-by-step From BBC News on the San Bernardino, CA December 2015 killings:… From BBC News on the San Bernardino, CA December 2015 killings: “President Obama says the U.S. ‘will not be terrorized’ by the deadly San Bernardino shootings, which the FBI is treating as an act of terrorism.” Inspired by the aims and ideology of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) which has claimed the two killers as supporters, “Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, killed 14 people before being shot dead by police” (bbc.com/news 12/5/15). In Paris on November 13, 2015, 130 people were killed by coordinated terrorist attacks in three different locations at the same time. The French President Francois Hollande subsequently declared “France is at war. We are in a war against terrorism, jihadism, which threatens the whole world. Terrorism will not destroy France because France will destroy it” (cnn.com 11/16/15). And now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in spring of 2020, according to an ABC News report (4/2/2020):”While much of the United States and Europe has been staying home to avoid COVID-19 as it kills thousands, terrorist groups are blasting online propaganda messages toward followers and potential recruits which hail the calamity of the disease as divine retribution” (Terrorist Groups Spin COVID-19 as God’s ‘smallest soldier’ Attacking West”, by James Gordon Meek, ABCNews.go.com, LINK). As the article points out, ruining the U.S. economy was the aim behind 9/11/01 and that goal remains the goal of most terrorist groups among the radical Islamist sectors. 1. In your view, are the terrorists winning? If yes, then what does that mean and how do you know? If no, then what does that mean and how do you know?2. In the face of today’s terrorism, does the warning of the 19th century German Philosopher, Frederick Nietzsche, apply to us? Explain. “Whoever fights monsters should be careful that he does not become a monster. When you stare into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you” (Beyond Good and Evil, #146). Arts & Humanities Philosophy HUM HUM-2225 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)