Terrorism does not conflate with religion

robert a. pape, a professor of political science at the university of chicago drew this rather eye-opening conclusion from a database he painstakingly built of every suicide bombing and attack around the globe from 1980 through 2003 - 315 in all...

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks actually have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Religion is often used as a tool by terrorist organizations in recruiting and in seeking aid from abroad, but is rarely the root cause.

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