Book Description

We have tried to explain the terrorist events of the last few years.So much hate and violence disguised as a religious war.We can think of these terrorists as well as the poor, both culturally and economically, forced to the margins of society, with nothing to lose.But this is not the case: often they are young, rich, healthy, with a job, a future. We need another explanation for these gestures, something is missing in our reasoning.The common denominator of the attackers is faith, religion.The monotheistic religions of Judeo-Christian-Islamic matrix derive part of their cohesive strength from contempt for other religions.We asked ourselves, these fundamentalists, religious extremists, who have a strong faith: do they also have a strong moral conscience?The questions that arise are multiple:what we mean by respect for life; for the moral conscience;are people of faith responsible for their actions?Does religion lead us to ignore the contempt we feel for other religions?The term "Terrorism" comes from the French Terrorisme, which defined the regime of terror during the French Revolution (1789-1799) with a connotation totally different from that we use today. It was used in 1937 by the League of Nations to define "criminal acts directed against a state and whose ends or whose nature is apt to cause terror to certain personalities, groups of people or the public". According to the US Department of Defense the term refers to: "a calculated use of illegal violence or threats to incite terror, with the intent of forcing or intimidating governments or corporations in pursuit of objectives that are generally political, religious or ideological". The definition we find today in dictionaries defines Terrorism as a method of violent struggle, with which one tries to subvert the political and social order of a given government.However, this only explains the meaning of the word itself, in fact terrorism is much more than a simple definition. Terrorism is an existing reality, but also imaginary and collective. The aim of those who terrorism is to destroy any sensitive objectives such as: political representatives, religious, symbols or buildings of major importance, populations and ethnic groups, to stop revolutionary and protesting movements. Terror represents the extreme form of fear. Terror is its strong point, in fact, an act of violence with terrorist purpose, as well as causing numerous victims, aims primarily to instill fear to those who are spectators of these events (the fear that the event may be repeated). Often the attacks are spectacular events: the use of bombs, vehicles, heavy weapons, the fulfillment of these in very crowded places, are all tactics to get maximum visibility. Such events attract the attention of the media and politicians who for personal interests contribute, with the often-erroneous disclosure of the news, to publicize the work of the bombers disseminating the messages and threats that accompany every terrorist act.To talk about terrorism, it is necessary that there are some characteristics that are present at the same time:1. presupposes the spectacularization of pain and therefore presupposes a public dimension that is expressed using various modern ways;2. presupposes a reiteration and planning of terrorism actions that arouses the strategy of tension;3. usually aims to claim a territory, an intimate space, also virtual or figurative, which is supposedly violated. The University of Maryland has collected information on more than 125,000 terrorist attacks in the Global Terrorism Database.Worldwide, between 1970 and 2013, there were 125,000 attacks of which more than 45 variables were investigated, and 2900 attacks year and more than 7 each day.