My “How to Tame Religious Terrorists” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site:
“Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and others – our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin.
“Terrorism is first a mindset – committing to a cause that includes a willingness to kill anonymous others indiscriminately.
“Put yourself inside the head of a terrorist. …
Read more here.
[Related: “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” and my other articles at CHURCH and STATE.]