•   •   •   •

From Harvard International Review, Winter 2004.

Download the Paper (86 K, PDF file) - November 1, 2004 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing.

ABSTRACT:
No one who watched in horror as the twin towers of the World Trade Center crumbled into dust on September 11, 2001 could doubt that the real target of such terrorist assaults was the global power of the United States. Those involved have said as much. Mahmood Abouhalima, one of the al Qaeda-related activists who was convicted of his role in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center told me in a prison interview that buildings such as these were chosen in order to dramatically demonstrate that "the government is the enemy."

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Mark Juergensmeyer, "Religious Terror and the Secular State" (November 1, 2004). Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies. Paper 22.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/gis/22