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Terror in teh mind of god

s, Hindi, Panjabi, Urdu, German, and Latin. Because of this mastery of multiple languages I feel it has provided him an advantage on getting insight on the different cultures he has studied since knows the language. The reason I say this is due to the fact that all languages have different meanings and innuendoes built that none speakers might not pick up. One example of this in the English language is sarcasm. Also, it has always been said that little things get missed through translation, because not all languages translate verbatim with each other. For this book, he elected the help from several sources. He spent a page and a half listing out people such as Ehud Sprinzak (Israel), Zaid Abu-Amr (Hamas movement), Warden David Rardin (prison interviews), and many more to that could be listed. The basic argument that Juergensmeyer makes is that religious terrorism differs from other kinds of terrorism, and does religion plays the justification role in introducing terrorism to the evils of the world. At first glance, the wealth of information, and sources that are presented, such as the one-on-one interview with Mike Bray and Rev. Paul Hill. Throughout the book he makes different points differentiating between political terrorism and religious terrorism. For instance, while discussing the case about Mike Bray, Mark states, according to Bray, Christianity gives him the right to defend innocent unborn children (pg. 23). The next chapter, it was stated that, Yigal Amir acted alone and on orders from God. This was after he assassinated Israels Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The reason he was assassinated (along with it being morally justified) is because of the peace talks between Rabin and Arafat about the control of the sacred city. Next comes Islam, in which it was stated, by Mahumud Abouhalima, the one thing humans can do in response to great injustice is to send a message and that real change is in Gods hands. (pg. 64). I...

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