As compared to secular terrorists, religious terrorists inflict a lot more casualties on enemy targets. According to Hoffman, it is because of, "radically different value systems, mechanisms of legitimation and justification, and concepts of morality".What seems so ironic to me about this is that religiously motivated terrorists seemingly value human life less than secular terrorists, who see killing a large number of innocent civilians as immoral and counter productive to their goals.
In regard to Islamic terrorism, it seems that the promise of the after life has blurred their line between a moral and immoral act. While secular terrorists seek to improve the world for the present times, religious terrorists have fewer qualms about killing "infidels" because it is sanctioned in the Koran. But, who is to say what the criteria should be for determining an enemy of Islam?
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