Indeed, the Ku Klux Klan and
neo-Nazis giving a Biblical basis for their racism and anti-Semitism; Catholic
fanatics in the United States bombing
abortion clinics and night clubs and having killed innocent
civilians during the Olympic Games in 1996; the Catholic fanatics constituting
the Irish Republican Army; some terrorists from the Baptist sect of Protestant
Christianity in Tripura and Nagaland in
India killing innocent civilians giving a theological justification for their
actions; Khalistani terrorists killing innocent civilians acting in the name of
Sikhism (they blew up an
airplane flying innocent civilians); the Jewish
Defense League in the United States targeting Soviet singers
and diplomats and the
Haganah in the Middle East killing anti-Zionist Jews having
acted in the name of Judaism; Hindu organisations like the Ranvir Sena having
carried out caste-based massacres (including women and children) to
avenge left-wing
terror attacks, justifying the same theologically, and perhaps most
oxymoronically, Buddhist
monks inciting violence against those of other religions
in Myanmar and
Sri Lanka (not only Muslims but even Chin Christians in Myanmar
and Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka) are all examples of non-Muslim terrorists.
Not to forget that secessionists in different parts of the world – like
the now erstwhile Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka (who killed civilians, bombing
banks and marketplaces, and forcibly recruited children), and ultra-leftist
radicals in places like Greece, India and Peru – are also a cause of much
terrorism globally, and they aren’t even always motivated by religion.
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