Terrorism is a word invented in the west during the cold war. Communists were supposed to be the red terror, and interestingly, the west referred to today's Islamist terrorists, like Bin Laden, as freedom fighters. Now the freedom fighters have become terrorists, because the cold war has ended.

And once this Islamic threat, real or perceived, recedes, they'll attach the terrorist label to another group. And so it continues.

Which means, the word terrorism has no meaning at all, except the meaning assigned to it by the west depending on who their 'enemies' are. That being the case, why must others use this word to refer to anyone? Why use a term that was invented by the west to suit their own purposes?