Islamic fundamentalist terrorism issues

• Author: Cret Vasile - Pantea Madalina
• Position: Law and Economics Faculty, Social Sciences Department, Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania - Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
• Pages: 16-23

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 1 (2013), pp. 16-23

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ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM ISSUES

V. Cre, M. Pantea

Vasile Cre

Law and Economics Faculty, Social Sciences Department,

Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

* Correspondence: Vasile Cre, Agora University of Oradea, 8 Piata Tineretului St., Oradea,

Romania

E-mail: vasilecret@univagora.ro

Mdlina Pantea

Faculty of Letters,

University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

* Correspondence: Mdlina Pantea, University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters,

1-3 Universitii St., 410087, Oradea, Romania

E-mail: madalinapantea@yahoo.com

Abstract

International coalition against terrorism, under the leadership of the United States,

has as main objective the destruction of the last remnants of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters to

prevent that, in the future, they return and find in Afghanistan a proper land for the

development of fundamentalist organizations. Operation Enduring Freedom is not only

conducted in Afghanistan but also in Pakistan and on territorial waters and seas, to the

Mediterranean, where the International Coalition naval vessels monitor suspicious vessels

that could have Al-Qaeda members on board. Moreover, all cells of terrorist organizations

that are spread across dozens of countries on all continents are targeted.

Key words: terrorism, attacks, Muslim, Jihad, groups, fundamentalism.

Introduction

The terrorist attacks on the United States are not only assaults on a superpower but

also strikes applied to civilization, contemporary principles of democracy, targeting strategic

objectives representative of what the world was and also an attack on common values

belonging to many countries. In addition to the meaning of the attacks, they also wanted to

achieve strategic objectives by hitting the world trade center to destabilize an entire economic

system. The symbols that were hit indirectly caused a global attack, taking into account the

fact that citizens of 80 states were killed. Secularization of Islam is the main fact that led to

the development of religious Muslim radicalism, because no symbol-targets for Islam or

Christianity were hit as it would have been, for example, the Vatican, Tehran or Jerusalem,

but a symbol that represents the values of culture and Western civilization was chosen. The

so-called holy war, named like this by the Prophet Mohammed, has turned into a war of

Islamic fundamentalists with the rest of the world that does not “obey the laws of Allah”. The

Holy war that called Mohammed from Medina to go to Mecca is played by the Muslim

radicals and speculated with resentments given by the globalization and the inadequacy of

companies led by the idea of modernity and tolerance.

Until 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks have generally pursued a large public impact

with fewer victims. According to the history of terrorism, political assassinations had one or

several targets and they even reached to the attack of some state representative buildings,