By Alex Schmid
"This significant new e-book synthesises greater than 20 years of scholarly study, and offers a complete evaluate of the sector of terrorism stories. The content material of this booklet relies at the responses to a questionnaire via approximately a hundred specialists from greater than 20 international locations in addition to the explicit services and adventure of the quantity editor and many of the members. jointly, they consultant the reader via the Read more...
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P. Schmid • • • • • • humans have no right to alter. Therefore, religious terrorist conflicts are more difficult to resolve than secular terrorist conflicts (Simon). The enculturing in religious discourses is by now one of the most important processes of recruitment for Salafi-jihadi movements. Religion provides an additional operating and motivational space for violence that other secular ideologies cannot provide. On the margin, the benefits of religion-sanctioned violence can be argued to prove that divine benefits that will always exceed secular costs for those committed to religious violence.
This is clearly based on contra-factual demand for the uniqueness of identity. The fact is a man has multiple identities. . He may . . be freedom fighter and terrorist; the first identity defines what he fights for, the second, the method he employs. . ‘Freedom fighters’ . . cannot reconcile an act of random and wanton violence that terminates the very possibility of freedom for innocent others within any consistent ethical paradigm. The murder of innocents would be unacceptable within virtually any concept of ‘just war’.
Since terrorism is a technique – basically boiling down to killing civilians to influence (impress, provoke, shock, coerce, harm) relevant third parties – it can be used by many different ‘players’. All you need is plenty of explosives and no scruples and the conviction that terrorism ‘works’. Terrorist can be believers or atheists, left- or right-wingers, opponents or supporters of the state. The terrorist can be a dictator, a director of a secret police service, or the leader of a vigilante death squad loosely connected to the security forces of the 18 Introduction government.
