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{{Short description|Terrorism that focuses on one, or a few, issue(s)}}
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'''Special-interest terrorism''' and '''single-issue terrorism'''<ref name="csis">[http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmntr/cm74-eng.asp Single Issue Terrorism] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227080844/http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmntr/cm74-eng.asp |date=2009-12-27 }} ([[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]]).</ref> are forms of [[terrorism]] that, unlike other forms such as [[Right-wing terrorism|right-wing]], [[Left-wing terrorism|left-wing]] and [[religious terrorism]], tend to focus on a few or only one specific issue rather than on more widespread political, religious or other social change.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk_dAAAAIAAJ&q=%22special+interest+terrorism%22 p.172] in ''Terrorism: Documents of international and local control'', Oceana Publications: 1979 ({{ISBN|0-379-00709-6}}).</ref>
Those pursuing special-interest terrorism conduct acts of violence in the belief that these will compel a society to change its attitudes toward, treatment of and/or priority given to their cause in their favour. They tend to occupy the [[Extremism|extremist]] fringes of movements that address issues such as [[Environmental movement|the environment]], [[Anti-abortion movements|abortion]] and [[Anti-nuclear movement|nuclear technology]]. Within these, it is some of the more extreme environmental and anti-abortion groups that have turned most toward [[vandalism]] and terrorist activities.<ref name="fbi2002">[http://www2.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/watson020602.htm "The Terrorist Threat Confronting the United States"] ([[United States congressional hearing|US Congressional testimony]]).</ref>
One well-known form of special-issue terrorism is [[Environmental terrorism|environmental]] or [[eco-terrorism]], which in the 1980s was the only type of special-interest terrorism included in [[FBI]] statistics.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=boadd2Ecug8C&dq=%22special+interest+terrorism%22&pg=PA26 p.26] in Brent L. Smith, ''Terrorism in America: pipe bombs and pipe dreams''.</ref> Another form of special-issue terrorism is [[anti-abortion violence]].
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