Dr. Juergensmeyer s discussion mentions the following. Warfare, sacrifice and martyrdom become part of the accumulated myths and rituals of religion. Religious justification for violence. Crusading spirit, zealotry and acts of assassins recall violent acts in Christian, Jewish and Islamic history. Politics of religious terrorism.
Some doctrines readily divide the ins from the outs.
They enforce their legal codes on pain of fierce punishment or death. For many religionists, life becomes a cosmic struggle. Violence thus becomes justified in pursuit of these cosmic, divinely ordained ends. Muslim jurists have identified two types of Jihad in the religious sense. This inner struggle is Jihad s highest form.