Terror In The Mind Of God Analysis

As a member of UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organization) this will be addressing the leaders of Al- Qaeda. The conflict between Israel and the Middle East has been going on for many years now. The United States should have been at the middle easts rescue with foreign aid during hardships and famine. The destruction of Iraq’s villages and the killing of multiple innocent Iraqi civilians is unjust and needs to be relieved and compensated. Now that that is said there are some key points that need to be reviewed for example; religious violence, mimetic theory, and identity based in a cosmic war. The use of Nietzsche’s theory of ressentiment will be the main use of prevention of future attacks of violence. Cultures of violence include …show more content…
Cosmic war is bigger than murder and is living out your world order. When in a cosmic war its unconscious, and is understood by the group that has more power and justifies its own violence against the other. In Terror in the Mind of God it discusses how “activists” who have turned to terror, cruelty, or torture have been driven to an image of cosmic war. In the authors eyes he sees it as a relation of good and evil, imitations are personal but can be transmitted to a social platform, and they supersede human experience. What makes religious violence so savage and relentless is the images of the struggle of cosmic war in political battles. The concept of cosmic war changes and the level of violence that is legitimatized depends on the social context. To identify a confrontation that could most likely become a cosmic war there are three key points. Those three points are in Terror in the Mind of God and it explains it well with this “1. The struggle is perceived as a defense of basic identity and dignity 2. Losing the struggle would be unthinkable 3. The struggle is blocked and cannot be won in real time or in real terms”. Once ideas are implemented in individual who feels oppressed goes through a crisis of confidence, a conflict of legitimacy, and a crisis of legitimacy which includes the state, government, and culture. Applying this to the United States and the Middle East it concludes …show more content…
The film demonstrates the relationship between the Bush family and the Bin Laden’s and their partnership with companies in the United States and Saudi Arabia. Moore discusses that thousands of American troops did not have to lose their life in the war because there was no war to really fight. The war was between the ongoing ressentiment between the Middle East and the United States and there should have been no one hurt because of it. This leads effortlessly into the explanation of stages of symbolic empowerment. In Terror in the Mind of God Juergensmeyer lists the four stages of symbolic empowerment. The first stage being a world gone awry. Secondly, the foreclosure of ordinary options. Thirdly, santanization and cosmic war. Fourthly, symbolic acts of power. The film portrays the United States getting in the Middle Easts business as including the world going awry. Training and the planning of ads and attacks and combining strategies through forming a political group. Next since Al-Qaeda couldn’t fight politically they turned the tension into a religious fight into a cosmic war. Lastly Al-Qaeda acted on their symbolic acts of power with leading to a terrorist attack on the twin towers and world trade center to get recognition and notice. Bin Laden reverses the roles of terrorism and blames it on the