Religious Terrorism

Abstract

The September 2011 event was an event that shocked the world. Recent decades have shown that this type of terrorism is a different form of violence or other crime. Acts of terrorism that occurred are recognized by the perpetrators with religious motives driven by a false religious belief. The events of September 11, 2011, constituted violence carried out by all religious groups, sects and cults which cost ± 3000 lives lost. The problems in this study are a) What is meant by religious terrorism? b) What is the view of terrorism in an Islamic perspective? The research method in this paper uses a normative and empirical juridical approach. The results showed that religious terrorism can be seen in the motives and goals of the act of terror itself. Because basically pure religious terrorism is motivated by religious motives and goals without worldly appendages and triggered by events that are felt to be quite painful for their religion. Pure religious terrorism is different from secular terrorism, where secular terrorism is usually motivated by religion driven by political considerations. Meanwhile, the Islamic view of terrorism is Islam is a religion of peace that refers to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad based on the Holy Qur'an, wherein it does not teach violence let alone terrorism. For Muslims, the real crime of terrorism is the main enemy.