1. For Friday
1. How does Pape’s analysis of terrorism differ from that of Juergensmeyer?
2. From what you can gather from the text of his speech, what is Donald Trump analysis of what drives “radical Islamic terrorism?”
3. Are Trump’s proposed solutions likely to be effective?
4. What would Pape and Juergensmeyer think of Trump’s approach?

2. Quiz
1. Very briefly describe an act of violence carried out by “your” group? (This should be something from the chapter you read.)
2. In Chapter 1 of Terror in the Mind of God, Juergensmeyer:
A. claims that it is very important for us to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism.”
B. says that terrorist acts are primarily rooted in economic grievances.
C. says that we should focus on “cultures of violence” in order to understand acts of terror.
D. that Barack Obama should be classified as a terrorist.

3. Christian, Jewish, Buddhist
1. Who is attacking your group?
2. What is the nature of the threat you face?
3. What act(s) of violence have you carried out?
4. How do you justify your use of violence?
5. Are you terrorists?
If not, who are the real terrorists.....

4. Terrorism? 9/11 Hiroshima Planting a bomb at Trump’s cabinet meeting
Arson at an abortion clinic
Destruction of labs engaged in animal testing
Drone strikes on suspected militants
Fort Hood Shooting

5. July 20, 1944: 4 killed, many injured Is this an act of terrorism?

6. P.7–Why not use the word terrorist?
why does he focus “on the ideas and communities of support that lie behind acts rather than on the “terrorists” who commit them”?
p. 9–How do you know if the world is at war?
Is anyone at war with you right now?
How about those destroying the earth? Derrick Jensen

7. Theater of Terror “Performative Violence”
“These creations of terror are done not to achieve a strategic goal but to make a symbolic statement.”
What is the significance of the time, place (stage), and manner of your group’s violence?
What “symbolic statements” do your acts of terror make?

8. Cosmic War 1. Is your group at war? What is the nature of that war?
Are you at war?

9. Stages of Symbolic Empowerment
1. A World Gone Awry
2. Foreclosure of ordinary options
3. Satanization and Cosmic War
4. Symbolic Acts of Power