In his book “Pirates and Emperors: Old and New International Terrorism in the Modern World.”, Mr. Noam Chomsky envisages that St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. Alexander asked him, "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replied, "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an Emperor." An elegant and excellent answer expressed by the pirates above likely denotes the current realm. A situation that makes Muslim community today becomes an appropriate subject for terrorism.
Looking at the conversation above, it seems that many analysts, even today, had tried to dismiss the problems relating to the definition of terrorism with an old saying that ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. An old definition that captures the current relation between the United States and various minor actors on the stage of international terrorism. Simply, we can conclude that Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Palestine or even Indonesia and many other majority Muslim countries are terrorists and United States, Israel and their allies as a freedom fighter.
