Ehtisham's

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Monday, September 11, 2006

Definitions

Well here are my definitions for some popular terms:

<>Freedom
Freedom means to live your life according to your own desires without physically harming other people and disobeying the law.
<>An important example of freedom is freedom of expression, which lets you express your feelings about anyone, whether you are right or wrong. Other examples of freedom include freedom to practice any religion, freedom of propaganda, freedom to form unions and parties.

Democracy

It is the freedom to choose any leader, idea or measure, on the basis of number of votes. Each person votes only once and every vote has equal weight. <>

“Democracy is like the experience of life itself –always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested for adversity.”
-Jimmy Carter Speech to Parliament of India June 2, 1978 <>
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Terrorism


Any type of violence (especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination) or its threats, primarily targeting civilian population. Collateral losses as a result of military offensive may not be categorized under terrorism; rather they are the violation of Geneva Convention.