How Extremists Link Religion to Terrorism
How Extremists Link Religion to Terrorism
File photo of an Islamic State terrorist. HO-FBI AFP
Scholar Karen Armstrong’s examination of communication between the 9/11 attackers sheds new light on how Western policies had inspired the terrorists
Well-known scholar on Islam, Karen Armstrong wrote her monumental study
The Lost Art of Scripture (2019) to lay bare extremism in major religions attributed to divine injunctions. In her examination of messages exchanged among the terrorists of 9/11, she arrived upon some interesting insights into the mindsets that link violence to religious doctrine, and how they have been, at least partially, motivated by Western policies.