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There’s a basic difference between a “dormant terrorist” and a “repentant terrorist.” The former will first deny his terroristic past before accepting when confronted with unassailable evidences as Pantami did, while the latter will not wait for any evidence before publicly renouncing his terrible past and be ready for atonement.
A dormant terrorist will activate his acts of terrorism, be it “tongue terrorism” or “physical bomb throwing terrorism” if those conditions that made him an agent of religious, ethnic or economic terror occur again.
This is a reason serious countries truly fighting terrorism don’t have anything to do with “dormant terrorists” not to talk of appointing them into public office, rather they put them and their associates permanently on their security watchlist because they know that when cobra is dormant for whatever reason, it still keeps its poisonous venom intact.
Soetan is a renowned pro-democracy activist.