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Re:China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyw... by jansho on Saturday July 22, 2017 @10:27AM (#14827377)
Terrorism is so easily thrown around as a blanket term these days. As many others have pointed out, the motivation seems to be more separatist than religious.
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Re:China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyw... by dmurray on Saturday July 22, 2017 @11:18AM (#14827604)
Separatist movements fit well with a traditional definition of terrorism, though (something like "politically motivated violence by non-state entities", maybe confined to violence against civilians). Purely religious terrorism was the exception until recently.
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Re:China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyw... by rwallace on Saturday July 22, 2017 @01:21PM (#14828214)
Separatism and terrorism are orthogonal. There are separatist movements that resort to murder, but there are also separatist movements that campaign peacefully.
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Re:China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyw... by stupidstupid1 on Saturday July 22, 2017 @11:13AM (#14827578)
Terrorism has a meaningless definition. It's as meaningless as 'communism' was during the Cold War; or 'socialism' in American politics.

It may as well be 'Fnord' for how it's used.

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