Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Creation of response mechanisms against counter-state extremist groups…
Creation of response mechanisms against counter-state extremist groups such as Hezbollah as a threat to national security
Introduction
In this modern times of crisis, organized extremist groups use direct violence as a common currency,
and in turn governments worldwide must take the appropriate measures to contain and suppress such despicable actions.
It is the state’s duty to protect national safety against any threat, be it internal or external.
Throughout modern history, states have often been attacked by foreing enemies. Yet, in the last decades, those international conflicts have drastically decreased.
Extremist Organizations
In order to get a clear idea of the different extremist groups' development, religious groups such as Hezbollah and the Taliban must be taken into account.
-
all these groups feed on hatred, misinformation and discomfort
recruiting young influenceable minds and creating a narrative in which there is a clear enemy that has to be destroyed by any means possible.
In order to begin analyzing terrorist organizations, one must begin by reaching out to its relation with nationalism.
Every time a fear is exploited to unite groups of people against others’ moral, practical decision making becomes obsolete allowing acts that would have been previously inconceivable to be justified.
This fear drives them to act violently against other ethnic groups like Asians, blacks, Arabs, and Latins that have established themselves in the territory
-
Hezbollah
founded in 1982 by Muslim clerics in Lebanon and financed by the iranian government with the intention of fighting neo-imperialist and western influence in the region.
Being a Shii islamic group, it rapidly gained followers, who were later trained to be “fighters with a strong conviction”
by a contingent of 1,500 revolutionary guards that arrived from Iran, passing unscatted through Syrian territory
Hezbollah is responsible for an extensive development in healthcare through the funding of hospitals but also has an interest in educational facilities, infrastructure and economic developments.
even during times of active conflict, the group has provided basic supplies such as water or food to vulnerable sectors of the population making it a political movement with wings spread on the fields of social service and an organized militia.
Nonetheless as of 2020 the entire group was declared as a terrorist organization by the Arab League (Excluding Lebanon and Iran), the European Union and at least 26 countries worldwide
-
Taliban
Having started as a militia from 1994-96, becoming part of the government 1996-2001 and after the US-led coup they became an insurgency.
They are a Sunni islamist movement with a strong miliatry branch that is currently opposing the Afghan government
while being sponsored allegedly by the governments of Pakistan, Qatar, Iran, and China.
Profesing an ideology that combines both militant Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun sociocultural approach that ultimately led them to their drastic human rights violations.
Profesing an ideology that combines both militant Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun sociocultural approach that ultimately led them to their drastic human rights violations.
Although after the attacks against the twin towers in the US Pakistan retired their official support to the organization, other non-state groups ended up as allies of the Taliban like the Haqqani Network, al-Qaeda, and Tehreek-iTaliban Pakistan among others.
Current situation
We are forced to live in a constant state of terror, where a terrorist attack might happen anywhere in the world
As such, governments should be prepared to design plans to face and prevent any kind of terrorist attack