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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism
shedding blood becomes a source of pleasure due to their
perverted logic. They cease to be human and turn into savage
monsters. If one of them does evidence the slightest remorse,
he is immediately branded a traitor by his more radical
comrades. Being more radical and more bloody is regarded as
being more devoted to the cause, so the zeal to kill increases
constantly. Since any dispute can easily be defined as
betrayal, terrorists invariably use guns against each other,
and carry out attacks on other splinter groups within their
own ranks.
This passionate attachment to violence goes deeper than
political ideologies and in fact stems from an underlying
misconception about human nature. The terrorist mindset
draws its inspiration from materialist philosophy and
Darwinist thought. Darwinism regards human beings as
animals and maintains that living things evolve through a
struggle for survival in nature. Eliminating the weak, so that
the strong can emerge victorious, forms the essence of any
terrorist's twisted thinking.
The savagery of terrorism is felt in almost every country in the world.
According to U.S. State Department figures, the year 2000 saw an 8
percent increase in terrorist incidents over 1999.
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