Peter T. King Quotes
When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
King, Peter T. Quoted in "Peter King's I.R.A. Past Is Re-Examined." The New York Times, 8 Mar. 2011, p. A1.
This quotation provides a succinct view of most non-Western Muslims on the issue of the definition of “terrorist.” A “mujahid” can be translated from Arabic as “freedom fighter.” To the rest of the world, terrorism is defined by the techniques and behavior of the doer. To many Muslims, it is defined only by the motive. If one is defending land or a cause, he cannot be a terrorist. The only terrorist to a Muslim holding this point of view is a person who engages in these violent methods for no reason. The essential difference is that to most of the world a cause—even a worthy one—does not justify any methodology or cost. To the Islamicist who accepts Al-Jozo’s point of view, there is NO methodology that is immoral, especially if one is fighting for a cause, and no cause is more worthy than the spread and dominance of Islam and the world of God. Therefore, for that cause, there can be no terrorism as there can be no ethical or moral limits.
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
Terrorism via bombing of innocent civilians was not an invention of the late 20th Century. England was coping with Irish and anarchistic terrorists in the 19th Century.
Peter Thomas King is a former American politician who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. He represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district.
