You are barking up the wrong tree......
If you look closely, the root cause of terrorism, is simple.
The root cause is always, territorial, nationalistic, political,
conflict.
That is the primary reason.
As you can see the Palestinian and various other middle-eastern
Arab terrorists, they are basically having a land dispute. Namely,
there is a dispute of a territorial, nationalistic, political,
nature.
The same can be said with Chechen terrorists. Again,
territorial, nationalistic, political, root is the cause.
They wanted to make their own country.
This case, Mumbai attack, same again, these people are
sympathizers and supporters of Kashmiri independence.
In each and every one of these so-called terrorism cases, the
root cause is always one of territorial, nationalistic, political,
nature.
When you look and focus on their religion or religious ideology,
you are just looking at the secondary factor. It is not the primary
reason. You forgot the real cause.
I would like to remind you that ETA and IRA in the past, also
employed terroristic tactics, and they are not Muslims at all.
However there is a similarity, and always there is this
similarity. ETA and IRA had a dispute of a territorial,
nationalistic, political, nature.
Another example, in 1970s there was a group of Japanese
terrorists, forgot the name, and they were not Muslims either.
So you see.
So the commonality of all these terrorism factors, is one of
territorial, nationalistic, political, nature.
In some cases, when the protagonists and the belligerents got so
desperate, they are willing to inflict a cost and a damage to the
other side, without paying due regard to proper conduct of a
gentleman warfare. They resort to terroristic tactics. They are
desperate, filled with hatred, pushed to corner, and dont care
anymore.
Some of them will use justifications of an ethnic nature or a
personal nature or ideological nature, or perceiving their acts as
a rightful revenge, some of them will look deep into their
philosophy and religious teaching to find justification and
courage.
Of course, all acts of terrorism is wrong, I agree with that.
There is no moral grey area in this regard. It is absolutely wrong.
However when you look only at their secondary soul-searching or
self psyching up by searching deep into their religious beliefs,
and then you point at that, and blame that, I think you are being
rather short sighted and you miss the real reason altogether.
So whether they are ETA, IRA, Japanese terrorist, Kashmiri
terrorist, Chechen terrorist, or all sorts of terrorist acts do not
have a religion as a commonality, rather, the commonality is a
conflict of a territorial, nationalistic, political, nature.
Meat Pao