Mamdouh Bitar, Samir Sadek:

   all terrorism is a  crime  , but not every crime is terrorism. Terrorism has characteristics that differ from those of a normal crime. Among the characteristics of difference is the background of terrorism. This background is not personal, but in most cases intellectual and ideological. The background of the normal criminal is personal, and there is usually a relationship and knowledge between him and his victim. In a terrorist act, this knowledge and relationship between the perpetrator and the victim does not exist. The terrorist act aims to take revenge on others, not on the victim. The criminal takes revenge directly on the victim. His target is the victim, not anyone outside of this victim.

Regarding responsibility, there is a huge difference between a terrorist and a criminal. The criminal is solely responsible for his actions, while the terrorist is not solely responsible for his actions. Most of the responsibility in the case of a terrorist falls on the ideological and ideological background and on the group, which directly or indirectly pushes the individual to carry out the terrorist act. Therefore, the terrorist act is created by the ideological background, meaning that it is the real perpetrator, while the individual is only the perpetrator of the terrorist operation. In general, this is called “collective action.”

Some people try to cover up the ideological background and exonerate it from the terrorist act. One of these methods is to seek motives such as the individual’s ignorance, lack of Islam, being a drunkard, a drug addict, a social failure, and being convicted, etc. These are the characteristics required of a person who is wanted to carry out a terrorist act. This person wants to be rehabilitated for a new kind of life that makes him feel that he is not an outcast and that he has value and social standing. In return, he must carry out the orders and desires of the group, which are usually formulated indirectly. The perpetrator is told that the main goal is to support the true religion, which qualified him and granted him a high position within the group. Killing people is a secondary matter that has no importance compared to supporting the religion and ensuring God’s pleasure with him, which guarantees him a sure place in heaven and among its houris.

Among the schools that can rehabilitate the failure to serve their goals, the jihadist religious schools occupy an important position in this era. These schools melt the jihadist in them, and the melting process is easy, because the hashish or the drunkard who has lost his personal features, finds in the group that melted him a replacement for his personality. The group offers him recognition and encourages him with reward after reward, especially in words and titles such as the title of believer or mujahid or the title of one of the best nation. All of that is crowned with the title of the highest Muslim and his privileges in heaven and paradise, especially when he performs the duties of jihad such as killing, fighting and martyrdom, that is,   when he dies in the context of jihad for the sake of God and not for the sake of a person or group that he sees and deals with face to face. He is an actor for the sake of God and not for the sake of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is equal to him in faith and equal to him in value, as they all struggle and are all equal in jihad and their destination is paradise and the houris and other privileges that are specific to believers only and no one else. He is thus the true highest Muslim without a competitor! However, in In his personal independence, perception, orientations and humanity, the inferior human being also remains without competition!

The school of Jihad cannot succeed in forming the highest Muslim, who is at the same time the lowest human being, without parallel schools, which we will call incubator schools, as an exaggeration. The mission of these incubator schools is to provide an atmosphere of understanding for the subject of Jihad in general and for the subject of the artificial puppet in particular. These schools practically welcome terrorism and formally deny it. These schools practice the betrayal of the artificial puppet by announcing that his act is personal and has no relation to the true religion. Thus, the terrorist puppet stands once again alone and isolated, languishing either in prison, in a virtual paradise, or in the grave. Then the ball is repeated with others, and so on! They qualify him to do what they want, then leave him alone to his fate. Thus, they achieve the conditions of collective deception and self-deception that destroys the self before destroying others..!