of terrorism against a defenceless population, for whatever purpose, is a modern plague – from mothers walking their children in Belfast, to the vulnerable villagers of Indonesia, Columbia, or Sierra Leone.

As international piracy once plagued the high seas and was only brought under control when those nations able to attacked it, wherever found, and dealt equally with its supporters and sympathizers (shelling North African ports that allowed their entrance), so also, terrorism against any civilian population today must be attacked using all necessary means. There can be no neutrality!

here, not the 'letter of the law', in national or in international legal systems of any kind, that is the governing factor, but –

the purpose or spirit of all valid law itself, namely:

State sponsored assassinations in foreign lands for political/security purposes which result in civilian deaths must also be regarded as a form of international terrorism, and this has often provided a strike-back motivating factor for other terrorism.

case is the 1985 US car-bombing of the West Beirut mosque (specially authorized by American CIA Director William Casey) at the close of Friday prayers to kill Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (who still escaped), which murdered 80 people and wounded 256 others. Most of the dead were girls and women, who had been leaving the mosque, though the ferocity of the blast "burned babies in their beds," "killed a bride buying her trousseau," and "blew away three children as they walked home from the mosque." It also "devastated the main street of the densely populated" suburb (Nora Boustany, Washington Post 1988). Killing the innocent in complete disregard of their welfare is effectively as evil as the same to punish or persuade another, as defined in our subheading.

To this kind of atrocity against civilians must be added the attempted ethnic-cleansing by Serbs of Albanian women in Bosnia until they fell pregnant with Serbian children and continued to be held prisoner until their pregnancies were beyond abortion. Up to five thousand children were born of this systematic terror raping.

Further – the use of religion to justify or rally support for terrorism against civilians of any nation, race, or creed, is the most blasphemous act of humankind:

Christendom's various religious organizations have often committed this crime in their history, but never with the indiscriminate slaughter which often characterizes present day atrocities. Both radical socialism and radical Islam justify their crimes by a fake morality: one in the name of 'the people', the other in the name of 'God'. The closest form of this today is the fake 'Christian' terror organisation calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army. Its sadistic and vicious cruelty are beyond description and any who facilitate its existence and supply its weapons are also guilty of its atrocities.

Today, the greatest inciter of terrorism is no longer communist ideology. It is now the fantasy ideology of radical Islam, which teaches that history can be turned around to make Islam the governing ideology internationally. This ideology teaches that no-one is innocent unless they submit to radical Islam and therefore all who do not are 'kafirs' and so legitimate targets for killing and maiming in the name of God. This latter is worse than the terrorism spread by radical socialism, which distributed its poison in the name of an idealized humanity.

2017: Hamza bin Laden (son of Osama bin Laden) broadcasts his motivation to continue "Prepare diligently to inflict crippling losses on those who have disbelieved... Follow in the footsteps of martyrdom-seekers before you."

The recording provides fresh evidence of ominous changes underway within the embattled organization that declared war against the West nearly two decades ago, according to U.S., European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials and terrorism experts. Decimated by U.S. military strikes and overshadowed for years by its terrorist rival, the Islamic State, al-Qa'eda appears to be signaling the start of a violent new chapter in the group’s history, led by a new bin Laden –

one who has vowed to seek revenge for his father’s assassination by the Americans.

The sad truth of this is that over the years more Muslims have been killed by radical Islamic terrorism and Shia-Sunni violence than have ever been killed by 'Christian' or Jewish oppression.

every person anywhere who reverences God, to any degree, holds a responsibility to counteract the spread of this blasphemy – wherever it is found, and in whatever form.

This kind of terrorism is not designed to divide communities as some assert, and needlessly try to counter by calling for reconciliation. It is designed to simply intimidate the political climate to increase the influence of radical Islam, regardless of what claims of injustice committed elsewhere are used to justify its atrocities.

Nor is this terrorism produced by marginalized groups who have no other prospect of a meaningful life. Most terrorists are educated, moderately affluent young persons, indoctrinated by inflammatory ideology. Society, or social circumstance, is therefore not to be blamed.

The teachers of radical ideology are! They are the evil minds behind the scourge, to which the primary guilt needs to be ascribed.

– whether perpetrated by a so-called political 'liberation movement' or by blasphemous 'Islamic extremism', terrorism is a direct threat to the necessary "tranquil and quiet existence" of those mandated by Christ (1Tim. 2:2) to represent Him in this present world to build up the greater welfare of all people and allow the optimal spread of the precious Gospel of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.

The illicit drug industry of Afghanistan, which has been complicit in the financing of terrorism, has enjoyed the clandestine cooperation of the Pakistan military from the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, with the full knowledge of both Britain and America (as reported by an SAS operative in Afghanistan), but international political power-balancing of these governments has continued to justify the capacity for this corrupt practice.

the suppliers of weapons to zones of civil-conflict, particularly in Africa, and their facilitators are no less guilty than the promoters of terrorism against civilians.

"And if a man hates his neighbour, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes his life from him, so that he dies,
and flees to one of these cities, then the elders [leaders] of his city shall send and bring him from there,
and give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Your eye shall not pity him,
but you shall put away the [guilt for] innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you."

"And Jehovah sent against him [king Jehoiakim of Judah]
the troops of the Chaldeans, and the troops of Syria, and the troops of Moab, and the troops of the Ammonites;
and He sent them against [the kingdom of] Judah to destroy it... to remove them [the nation] from His presence
for the sins of Manasseh [great-grandfather of Jehoiakim], according to all he did, and
also the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and
the LORD was not willing to forgive."

existence of the Book of the prophet Obadiah in the Bible is a testimony to this absolute intolerance of God toward those who attack non-combatants for their own purposes. Edom's national extermination, which is spelled out in this book as the judgment of God, illustrates this.

Israel had been under the judgment of God for its corruption and so God brought the Babylonian armies to devastate that nation. The civilian refugees from the war zone were fleeing with their meagre belongings, when Edom, the nation descended from Esau and brother nation to Israel, sent raiding parties to attack and rob the refugees. Therefore God declared the demise of that nation and is the whole reason it does not exist today!

– an individual terrorist is not born a terrorist. A person becomes a terrorist as a consequence of influences that affect the mind and attitude, some tragic. Apart from ideological hype, there are many persons who have become part of a terrorist movement as a consequence of despair at ever finding an alternative solution and in anger at perceived injustices suffered by their community.

Libyan officials, including a son of Gaddafi, have said Libya made clear to Britain that if Megrahi was not included in the transfer agreement,
lucrative oil deals for UK companies such as BP would not be approved. (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at his home in Tripoli, Libya, May 20, 2012).