https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism#Motivation_of_terrorists
"Attacks on high profile symbolic targets are used to incite counter-terrorism by the state to polarize the population. This strategy was used by Al-Qaeda in its attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States on September 11, 2001"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn6f5InhcfQ
"says the Islamist forces have learned that a ground war is to their advantage; US policy will to lead to more chaos"
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/blake-bromley/isis-beheadings_b_5845692.html
"But terror is ineffective if no one is horrified. Publicity is required to shock those who would otherwise be unaware, and to frighten those in the vicinity"
this doesnt take too much proof, btw. terrorism works on the same fuel that petulant children and internet trolls feed on, attention. if no one gets frightened, no one spreads the message, and suddenly all the effort they put into beheading people kind of, you know, wont do shit except behead a guy
[–] 4978947? [S] 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Your sources got no sources. Any actual source?