How Easily Terrorist Can Become Famous

Terror means fear. In a world where both mainstream media and social networks can blow up any story in mere minutes, it’s fairly simple to terrify millions of people. In fact, the stronger mainstream media becomes, the bigger effect does every act of terror have. ISIS terrorists quickly realized this and made sure to spread footages of their murders on every possible media channel. All it takes today is for some idiot with a knife, who’s planning on stabbing someone on the streets of Paris, London, or Jerusalem, to click the Like button on ISIS’ or Al-Qaeda’s webpage – and his stabbing would receive much more attention. Quite similar to associating a good brand with a horrible product. A terrible product.

Terror has existed since the dawn of history. Men try to terrorize others in numerous ways to promote their own interests. I would like to focus on Islamic terror that occasionally strikes the Western world. While Western countries normally ignore deadly and daily Islamic terror in Muslim or African countries, Western media is quick to scream out its reports on every terror attack in a Western country. Social media share video clips from crime scenes and millions are exposed to one terrorist or a small group of terrorists’ actions. It's astounding to think how Western people have grown accustomed to different calamities, such as: deadly car accidents that claim thousands of live every year, killings committed by murderers, brutal domestic violence, mass shootings in the States, and many other horrors and catastrophes. But terror? That’s a whole other league of attention.