THE PURPOSE OF TERRORISTIC VIOLENCE
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Terroristic violence is initiated and undertaken to punish or kill people whom--the believer imagines--do not worship the sacred object the believer worships. Terroristic violence seeks to demonstrate the power of the god worshipped by one's own group--by squelching or killing members of nonbelieving groups. Acts of violence give witness to belief in the greatness or truth of one's own god, nation or ideology.

Richard Koenigsberg