Terror in the Name of God

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (649) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer

What is striking about the World Trade Center assault and many other recent acts of religious terrorism is that they have no obvious military goal. … They are a kind of perverse performance of power meant to ennoble the perpetrators' views of the world and to draw us into their notions of cosmic war.

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