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 | | On the surface, the popular definition of terrorism represents a shift from previous means of defining an enemy, that is, from territorial or cultural disputes over ideology or religion, to the open acts of violence against the public. |
 | | The use of the terms terrorism and terrorist are politically weighted, and are often used for a polarizing effect, where terrorism becomes simply a relativist term for the violence committed by an enemy, from the point of view of the attacked. |
 | | Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or State actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby — in contrast to assassination — the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. |
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