A Mentalidade do Terror

Robert R. Reilly faz uma penetrante crítica dos livros "Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century", escrito por Marc Sageman, e "The Mind of Jihad", escrito por Laurent Murawiec. Ele apresenta uma pungente definição de terrorismo: "Terrorism is not simply terror—some people doing terrible things on the spur of the moment. It is murder advanced to the level of a moral principle, which is then institutionalized in an organization—a cell, a party, or a state—as its animating principle. The very first thing one must understand is the ideology incarnated in the terrorist organization; it is the source of its moral legitimacy. Without it, terrorism cannot exist".