Terrorists and their supporters like to call themselves freedom fighters.
Perhaps it is because of the cowardly way they kill and maim those they think of as their enemy or merely because it suits their supposed cause or excuse for killing.
Many are in it just for the sake of violence and are the dregs of society as is evidenced by the likes of the killings in both the north and south of Ireland, by Catholics and Protestants, in the later decades of last century. The terrorists involvement in crime such as robberies and murders is well documented.
Generally cowards, afraid of meeting face to face, those they believe are the enemy they lay bombs, shoot, kill and run away. In Iraq as elsewhere such terrorists are adept at killing civilians.... Sunni terrorists (whoops, should I say brave freedom fighters) kill Shias shopping in markets and vice versa. How often do they have the guts to face those who can't fight back. Murdering women, children, police and unarmed men is par for the course.
In backward communities they are considered as heroes rather than the scum of the earth and cowards that they actually are. Even these words flatter them. Even the state in such backward countries celebrates their murderous activities which may well be due to the fact that such countries have no achievements of which they can feel proud.
If my compatriots murdered 34 civilians in cold blood including a church charity worker, a school teacher a doctor, a journalist outside a cinema plus a Maltese policeman a Maronite policeman, an Armenian and a women shopping for her trousseau would I call them freedom fighters? No way.
If they murdered non-civilians while gardening, when in hospital, numerous others by shooting them in the back while shopping, bombing them on a beach or when walking to mass with family would I call them freedom fighters? I would hang my head in shame.
If they kidnapped and murdered non-civilians and complained when those tried and found guilty were executed would I call them freedom fighters? No I would rightfully call them what they undoubtedly were .i.e. cowardly killers who were happy to kill but could not accept the consequences.
If I was religious and supported and continued to support such heinous acts years after they were perpetrated would I expect to go to heaven after my death even though the hypocritical religious leaders of my country were implicated in such acts. It would be a forgone conclusion that hell awaits.
No decent human being possibly could call them freedom fighters but sadly not all humans are decent.
Abuse is awaited from those who deny the truth.