May 18, 2025

In the previous blog ‘Where do Terrorists get their strength from – Part 1? – PolyBlogger.com’, we saw how terrorists get support from the local people where they live and where they operate. Clearly, without the support of the locals, it is nearly impossible to manoeuvre in the region and operate terror activities, training, etc. I would say, like local supporters, without the support of any one or more governments, terrorism cannot operate and cannot survive. Ultimately, it is the government that provides all facilities to foster terrorism. There are multiple reasons why the government take the terrorists’ help and why they allow terrorist activities like training and recruitment in their country and attacks on another country. We will discuss the same in another blog. Here we will discuss how the government gives strength to the terrorists and terror organizations. Government Support Provision of space, arms and munitions The terrorist organisation needs space to establish itself. It requires space to establish headquarters, offices (which don’t necessarily mean a corporate or government-like office, but rather a space to hide and store items), training centres, a hiding camp, accommodation, and more. Who do you think can provide it? Locals? No, Locals cannot, because the government has an intelligence agency that quickly informs them about any suspicious activities and terrorist activities. If not 100% of the time, but most of the time. So, it is not possible that terrorists operate for long without the government knowing it. That means either for a short time, such a terrorist organization works without the government’s action, OR the government itself supports terrorists and provides the space. Only then will it exist and flourish. Funding As I mentioned above, a terrorist organisation cannot get space without the government’s help and support, in the same way the government provides funding to such organisations. To build the terror infrastructure, it needs money. When you start a business, you need funding. Either you start with owned but limited funds, or you obtain financing from relatives and friends, or a bank. However, when they invest in you, they expect returns. If not the interest, at least they expect a principal return. But when a terror organisation starts, no one funds them legally. They obtain funds from drug trafficking, money laundering, dacoity, NGO funding, foreign government funding, or funding from a well-established business or the government itself. All the sources above can provide money only once or for a short time until their aim is fulfilled. Only one source consistently provides funding, the government. Drug and dacoity also provide funding, but again, without government support, even these activities are not possible. Just think about it once, if you are the president of a country and know that terrorist activities are going on in the country, what would you do? So, somewhere governments give birth to terrorism and feed and breed them. Training When the above two activities are not possible without the government’s support, then even providing the training is not possible without the support of the government. The government has specially trained personnel from the army, navy, and air force. Such training is provided by various governments, which follow the same training protocols for combat operations. No terrorist organization can obtain highly secretive and top-level combat practices from a foreign country. That means either governments intervene and ask foreign governments to provide such training, either by disguising terrorists as government security personnel, or the government receives such training. Then their army offers the training to terrorists. Support to infiltrate Obviously, no country feeds the terrorists to attack their own country. They are trained to target specific countries. Now, to attack the target country, the terrorists need to get into the country. How can they get in the target country, especially when the borders are sealed? That’s where the intelligence agency, the army/navy and the radicalised local agents from the target country work together. As I mentioned in my previous blog, terrorist acts cannot survive long if there is no local support. It becomes challenging for terrorists to operate in the target areas. Now, the question is, why does the government support terrorism? Please continue reading to learn about the objectives and the bitter truth. Religious reasons (like Jihad or conversion) Religion is the most crucial reason for terrorism to exist. When a community wants to expand its territories, crush other religions, and capture the wealth of other nations or their areas where they are in the minority, and when the country wants to impose religious laws in either their own country or different nations. For example, Iran was previously known as ‘Parshia’. The community was the Parsi people. Parsi people, being secular and helpful, allowed Muslims to stay in the country. Slowly, the population began rising. A time came; Muslims took over the whole country. Radicalised the entire nation. Parsi people ran away and settled in India and other parts of the world. Now, we can see the religious law in Iran: radicalisation, hatred for Western countries, and hatred for other religions. The same is the case with Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Kashmir region of India and nowadays the West Bengal state of India. The radicalisation is at its peak. Hatred for Hinduism is at its peak. Some communities openly kill Hindus. They are snatching their homes, as well as their women, children, and wealth. You can see the movies ‘Article 370’ and ‘Kashmir Files’, based on reality. You can also see the news on Murshidabad, a city in West Bengal, India. None of the words I wrote above are incorrect, false or a misrepresentation of the fact. However, I don’t mean to demean any particular community. The world is silently clever enough to understand the scenario and its meaning. State governments are neither opposed to it nor stopping it. Does that mean they are the sponsors of terrorism? I don’t know; it’s a separate topic to discuss. Double Standard States Suppose a country is strong enough to be attacked. In