Intellectual resistance often employs highly sophisticated tactics, leveraging buzzwords like ‘Human Rights,’ ‘Civil Rights,’ and ‘Freedom of Expression.’ Another prominent strategy is ‘Environmentalism’—using ecological concerns to fuel controversies, such as claiming events like the Kumbh Mela destroy rivers. Furthermore, some prominent global intellectuals serve a major role in pro-jihad propaganda, rationalizing terrorism by giving it a moral veneer. By painting security forces as villains and romanticizing terrorist ideologies as ‘idealism,’ they deploy the distinct tactics of intellectual terrorism.
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