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Topic: Religious terrorism


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  Religious terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Religious terrorism refers to terrorism justified or motivated by religion and is a form of religious violence.
Clues to its present and future impacts are detailed by Roderick Hindery in "The Anatomy of Propaganda within Religious Terrorism," The Humanist, March-April, 2003.
From Bhindranwale to Bin Laden: The Rise of Religious Violence, University of California
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_terrorism   (653 words)

  
 Religious Terrorism - religious cults, sects and movements
Contrary to depictions in Western media, and popular stereotypes, religious terrorism is not limited to radical Islamic groups in the Middle East, and the U.S. domestic terrorist threat may lie closer to home.
While special attention is usually paid to the possibility of a new religious group's self-destruction in the wake of the Jonestown, the Branch Davidians, Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate tragedies, as we have seen, consideration must also be given to the possibility that some groups may direct acts of violence outside the group.
While it may be that "[i]n dealing with unconventional groups that have both religious and political agendas, government officials and law enforcement agents have not always been sufficiently sensitive to their [religious] self-definitions,"(28) hopefully those monitoring extremist, fringe and new religious movements and groups can provide a needed corrective.
www.apologeticsindex.org /t22.html   (2224 words)

  
 Religious Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Religious terrorists may cross the boundaries of fair play, but they are almost always convinced in their own minds of the moral superiority of their actions.
Religious terrorists always seem to be spiritually "prepared" for violence, and they have long past the point of having second thoughts or doubts about it.
One of the lessons regarding religious terrorism is that it almost always involves change in the form of "transmutation" or what White (2002) awkwardly calls "transmogrification." It is therefore difficult to characterize such a threat in absolute terms.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/429/429lect13.htm   (7856 words)

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