Islam and Terrorism: Supporting or Opposing Each Other?

Abstract

Terrorism is a problem that affects countries across the globe and attracts more attention from researchers, media, policy makers, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and general citizenry. For centuries, various acts of terrorism have been carried out in different parts of the world by different groups. Meanwhile, there is no single factor that could be used to justify terrorist activities. This is because there are countless reasons behind terrorism, most of which are political and economic in nature. Nonetheless, some terrorist groups often claim that they are fighting for Islam and Muslims. But, this is just an attempt to cover their destructive rational acts aimed at achieving personal interests. It uses secondary data from academic books, journal articles and other publications. The study advocate that all stake holders must put hands on deck to ensure that terrorism pose no more threat to the national security and it must to be tackle with all determinations.