Our world today and yesterday experiences various forms of religious violence in one way or the other. Religion is an important phenomenal in which identity of individuals and groups are based on (Juergensmeyer 2003, 5). Threat to this identity is one of the causes of religious violence and terrorism (Juergensmeyer 2003, 7). The conventional belief around religion is that it should be a safe abode where we can hide ourselves when we pass through challenges of life (Juergensmeyer 2003, 5). However, religion has provided the basis for motivation, planning and execution of violence and terrorism (Juergensmeyer 2003, 5). Religion has been used to justify evil acts, and has been used as a source of epistemology for acting in the name of God.
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In the Reign of Terror (Le Gouvernement de la Terreur), a group of reb-els, the Jacobins, used the term when “self-reflexively” depicting their own activities in and explanations of the French Revolution (Matusitz 2013). The Reign of Terror was a movement of large-scale violence by the French state; between 16,000 and 40,000 people were killed in a little over a year (Matusitz 2013).
Walter Laqueur described Terrorism as the” use or the threat of the use of violence, a method of combat, or a strategy to achieve certain targets” (Matusitz 2013). Also Stephen Sloan (as cited in Matusitz 2013) explained that the “definition of terrorism has evolved over time, its religious, and ideological goals have practically never changed”. The goals of terrorism remains the same over time, the goals of terrorism is what David Rapoport (as cited in Matusitz 2013) viewed as “the use of violence to provoke consciousness, to evoke certain feelings of sympathy and revulsion” (Matusitz …show more content…
Not all terrorists are bad or evil (banality of evil). Sterns identified that Kerry Noble (the second in command of an anti-abortionist terrorist group in USA) was a good man; she demonstrated that not everybody was born evil (Stern 2003). Juergensmeyer (2003) agreed to this by suggesting that people are not terrorists by nature. An example he gave was Doctor Goldstein (Who bombed a mosque in Israel) who grew up in a middle class community in Brooklyn, “He was an otherwise decent man who became overwhelmed by a great sense of dedication to a religious vision shared by many in the community of which he was a part” (Juergensmeyer 2003,
In …show more content…
In the Reign of Terror (Le Gouvernement de la Terreur), a group of reb-els, the Jacobins, used the term when “self-reflexively” depicting their own activities in and explanations of the French Revolution (Matusitz 2013). The Reign of Terror was a movement of large-scale violence by the French state; between 16,000 and 40,000 people were killed in a little over a year (Matusitz 2013).
Walter Laqueur described Terrorism as the” use or the threat of the use of violence, a method of combat, or a strategy to achieve certain targets” (Matusitz 2013). Also Stephen Sloan (as cited in Matusitz 2013) explained that the “definition of terrorism has evolved over time, its religious, and ideological goals have practically never changed”. The goals of terrorism remains the same over time, the goals of terrorism is what David Rapoport (as cited in Matusitz 2013) viewed as “the use of violence to provoke consciousness, to evoke certain feelings of sympathy and revulsion” (Matusitz …show more content…
Not all terrorists are bad or evil (banality of evil). Sterns identified that Kerry Noble (the second in command of an anti-abortionist terrorist group in USA) was a good man; she demonstrated that not everybody was born evil (Stern 2003). Juergensmeyer (2003) agreed to this by suggesting that people are not terrorists by nature. An example he gave was Doctor Goldstein (Who bombed a mosque in Israel) who grew up in a middle class community in Brooklyn, “He was an otherwise decent man who became overwhelmed by a great sense of dedication to a religious vision shared by many in the community of which he was a part” (Juergensmeyer 2003,