Teacher: Terrorism, has a single goal. What is it?

Student 1: Killing innocent people?

Teacher: Incorrect. Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Student 2: A show of strength?

Teacher: No. A weaker persuasion does not exist.

Student 3: To cause terror?

Teacher: Concisely put. Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within… causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government’s façade of infallibility, and you remove its people’s faith.