We forget, for good reason, that America has its own long history of homegrown terrorism. We can learn some lessons from our own long bout with terrorism.
You don't know what part of American history I am talking about (unless you look at the photo). Well, that is specifically the problem. The terrorists controlled the press, they targeted a specific class of civilians who were of no interest to the general population and they justified their acts of terror as motivated by cultural differences that had deep historic roots.
The
fifty year rein of terrorism is called lynching. It was targeted at a
limited population, Southern 'colored people.' Lynching was actively
practiced against the black population in America by the white
population by the hundreds per year for most of fifty years. It was
always justified as an effective way to maintain law and order. That is why thousands of people turned out to watch the lynching spectacles.
What is the lesson? Terrorism will only die out when it is seen as morally offensive to the majority of the perpetrators...and that can last 50 years.