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Religious and political causes of terrorism
Criticism is important when using the terms of religious and political terrorism, as the two variants often overlap each other. In many middle-east-countries, Islam is the state religion. Therefore, the country's law often equals the law written in the Koran. That makes it hard to distinguish between the country's ideological and religious view, which again leads to the difficulty of using the right term in the correct context. As a result of that, terrorism can be ideological and religious at the same time.

Many terror-attacks are related to political or religious motives. Religious terrorism includes terrorism influenced by religious views and values. Some terrorists are martyrs or commit suicide terrorism. These commitments are terrorism as they go under the definition: “The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion”(//Terrorism,// Wikipedia). In both ways, the methods are vastly efficient and easyily organized. Suicide terrorism and martyrdom are often related to religion.

A common goal when using terrorism is to attract attention. Terrorism is often used a facility to get to people because they disagree on something or want to mark their statements. Religious views are often marked by using terrorism as aid. the main goal often is to utter a message, which is much more easy to achieve when using terrorism as a way to get to people.

Sources: //Wikipedia: Religious terrorism.// URL: [] [Access date: 4.11-2010]

// Wikipedia: Terrorism. // URL: [] [Access date: 4.11-2010]