Blind terrorism provokes blind repression, polarizing and hardening a conflict

Evidence

It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed conflict by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transform the political situation of the country into a military situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things. … Marighela’s essential philosophy was that a resort to blind terrorism would inevitably provoke the forces of law and order into an equally blind repression, which in turn would lead to a backlash by the hitherto uncommitted, polarise the situation into two extreme camps and make impossible any dialogue of compromise by eradicating the “soft centre”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

For instance, when Florida pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Obama administration had to rein him in. This had less to do with Obama’s commitment to fighting Islamophobia and more to do with his administration’s emphasis on winning hearts and minds in the “Muslim world.” After reinforcing the notion that the United States was a nation built on religious tolerance, Obama said of Jones, in a television interview, that “I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform who are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan.” The turn to counterinsurgency meant that obvious provocations of this kind had to be managed even while the logic of empire was reinforced. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population.; Torture creates more terrorists than the bombs it uncovers; Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368 (+6 more)

Related

• Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population. (similarity 0.87)
• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism (similarity 0.85)
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance (similarity 0.84)
• Terror is defined by independence from opposition, not suppression (similarity 0.82)
• Revolutionary terror designed to discredit the state often backfires into sympathy for the state. (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorism fear uniquely suits political manipulation because it resists quick fixes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368
• Liberal containment of Islamophobia serves counterinsurgency strategy, not tolerance #expands (0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 574
• The flip-side image of Muslim-as-friend is equally coercive and nuance-blind as enmity #expands (0.50)