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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

should show the same empathy for the thousands of innocent
people it has slaughtered—not only at the World Trade
Center, but in attacks in Japan, Spain, East Turkestan, and

Indonesia, in the massacre of more than half a million Hutus
in Rwanda, in the murder of defenseless people in Palestine,
Israel and all across the globe.
Once every form of terrorism is fiercely condemned, then
no longer will its perpetrators receive support from any

country or be allowed to seek shelter inside its borders. Quite
literally, terrorists will have nowhere to hide.

THE IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF
TERRORISM

Before the war against terrorism can come to any
definitive conclusion, its underlying philosophy must first be
identified, along with the means to be employed. This book,

therefore, deals with terrorism's basic starting point, as well
as the disasters to which it leads. Its starting point is the
assumption that violence is a virtue in itself and a powerful
means to solve social or political problems. When killing
innocent people, damaging public order and disrupting
peace, a terrorist acts under the influence of ideas that have
been imposed on him, encouraging him to believe that he is

engaged in a justified struggle. Terrorism can be resolved
only when such people understand the mistaken logic of any
ideology that inspires terrorism and incites to violence, and
when they realize that going along with it can never get them

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