The inefficiencies within Counter- Terrorism

In our society today there are many people who glue their eyes to various media outlets such as CNN, Fox News and CTV for mostly Canadians, awaiting in fear of the next earth shaking act of terror. Whether it involves suicide bombs, the threat of nuclear warfare, or even non-state militia. The fear of terror is a common feeling among residents of first-world countries. The reason for this type common fear is rooted in the noticeable but rarely publicized inefficiencies in counter terrorism efforts. In this essay I will argue how many of many of the current counter terrorism efforts have been unsuccessful. Specifically looking at why there is a gap of influence on non-combatants because of focus on physical acts of Counter Terrorism instead of the growing ideological support towards the Al-Qaeda initiative despite their malicious acts of terror. Another reason for the ineffectiveness of counter terrorism tactics is because of the inability to physically pinpoint leaders and necessary targets in an ever changing dune organizational structure in Al-Qaeda. The other issue in counter terrorism efforts is the continual acts of discrimination against non-combatants because of their religious affiliation and ethnical visual similarities. This affects counter terrorism efforts because it no longer becomes a war on terror but instead it becomes a war on religious affiliation and targeting specific ethnicities. All of these inefficiencies in Counter terrorism exposes how they have struggled in achieving their goal of dismantling and destroying terrorist groups.

The ideological structure of terrorist groups makes it near impossible for counter terrorism groups to truly prevent support towards the terror initiative. The main issues in combat...

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...able, only 43 percent were religious”. () Yet these are only religious types of discrimination, the most common and vibrant type of discrimination is found in ethnicities whom physically resemble citizens from arab states. In New York there have been cases reported which look at violations of financial and travel privacy because of ethnic community associations. Racial violations of personal finances and travel information has been a major profiling tactic by anti-terrorist officials to continually harass the lives of Arab, south Asian, and others in New York City. These measures have led to many types of strip searches in airports and extra identification required in banks to prove non association with those who enact terror. Also post-9/11 many taxi drivers of south Asian decent required police protection from those who profiled terrorist based off appearance. ()