Law & Paneir

In recent years, the priorities of combating international terrorism have expanded beyond the suppression of terrorist actions by organization like Al Qaeda. Issues such as combating financial terrorism and preventing radicalisation and recruitment are at the epicentre of the international community’s efforts. Providing assistance to the victims of terrorism is also included in the general approach that is followed. United Nations The Security Council has taken the leading role by introducing the Counter-Terrorism Committee, which oversees the implementation of counter-terrorism policy. In 2005, the UN Secretary General proceeded to the introduction of the Counter Terrorism Implementation Task force for the combating of Terrorism, an organ which oversees the involvement of all the services of the UN. In September 2005, Resolutions 1624 was adopted by the Security Council, condemning every form of terrorist action regardless of origin and prohibiting committing terrorist...

Since the atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, Islam and Muslims have become the main subject matter of discussion throughout the world. The threat for the West is emerging not from ideology rather from religion, which, has always, had a reputation of being a violent faith. Since then, the understanding of Islam has become paramount to justify the effects that it has to the global affairs. Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilisation theory has become vital to analyse the pattern of global conflicts, which, have been transformed from ideology to religion. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and the dismantling of Eastern bloc left a vacuum of parties/powers in international conflicts. Since then, the West revived the old rivalries between Christianity and Eastern faiths especially emphasising Islam as a major opponent to uphold the beliefs of Western civilisations. The argument that Huntington put forward in his theory obviou...