Problem of Representation in Lloyd Pettiford and David Harding’s Terrorism: The New World War

Abstract

The text Terrorism: The New World Warprojects Non-Europeans as “Terrorist” especially Muslims in every possible way. This research offers a timely examination of the complexities associated with the idea of terrorism and claims that the authors’ representation is biased towards Non-Europeans. America in the name of democracy has launched military operations in different countries in the name of fighting against terrorism and recently America has declared that Iraq and the West Asia including Pakistan have been the breeding ground of terrorists. Such acts of America are terroristic in themselves. Thus, in this research terrorism has been redefined not as an act of terror but as ethnic and communal violence taking place between and among different ethnic communities. This thesis also claims that Non- European nations are not the breeding ground of terrorism but the powerful Europeans have used orientalist stereotypes and images to project the ‘other’ as terrorists.