Terrorism and Religion

Paper Summary:

This paper explores the strong connection between terrorism or terrorist groups and the religion they claim to represent. Specifically, the paper looks at the terrorist group, Hamas, which is a religious Islamic group, and explains its philosophy, structure, and purpose.

Contents
Introduction
Opposition Groups
Religion and Terrorism
Terrorism and Muslims
Beginning of Hamas
Hamas and Muslim Thinking
Shehadeh
Philosophy
Structure
Conclusion

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"Many believe that the combination of constant "misrule, corruption, poverty, and repression in Central Asia runs the risk of encouraging opposition groups to gravitate toward Islamic parties and movements (unknown, Testimony)." This is due to the fact that all other opposition forces have been subdued by the Islamic regimes, leaving the "Islamist movements, which are generally and inherently underground operations, the only force capable of arousing opposition to this misrule (unknown, Testimony)." The misrule and repression in Central Asia has encouraged the population to seek a party that provides them with a policy they can understand, since all other avenues of political expression are closed off due to repression, socio-economic decline, environmental degradation, the breakdown of social norms through crime, corruption, and drugs, ethnic cleavages, and/or the absence of a genuine civil society."

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