Global Jihad: temi, piste di diffusione e il fenomeno del reducismo ...

“not to forget to take some booty, even a cup or a glass of water”. Taking of booty
was an important element in the norms of fighting in early Islamic history.
Another important theme was to look for death and forget this world. Heroism is an
important element of such Islamist groups in most of their writings. But, not just for
the success of the fight and acceptance of death, but in order to prove the cowardice
of their enemies, those who prefer the present world on the other one, or those who
became the agents of the Devil. Those that “admire the civilization of the West and
drink their love and their worship with cold water”. This is typical to Islamic
writings of such groups that deal with death or committing suicide attacks. This is
the perception of the true believers versus the Party of the Devil. The same as the
view of the death in battle and becoming a martyr (Shahid) as marriage. This is a
repeated element in wills of Palestinian suicide bombers, and probably one of the
elements of self-persuasion prior to the operation. The same is with the beautiful
ever-virgin women who wait for them in Paradise. The entire tone of these
paragraphs is aimed at people who were going to a real battle with an armed enemy,
and not with innocent unarmed civilians in a plane. There was also in some cases the
use of the verb “slaughter” and not just “kill”. They are supposed to “apply the
tradition of captivity and capture among them and kill them, as God almighty said”.
The September 11 attackers, like many other Jihadists in the past decade, are
“programmed” with a mental sense of history, heroism, self-sacrifice, the search for
symmetry with the enemy, and a long mental indoctrination based upon the
demonization of the enemy. The definition of the enemy is dynamic and changing,
until it includes with the growing influence of Takfiri doctrines, almost all those who
do not adhere to the Jihadi interpretations. The demonization of the enemy adds a lot
to the historical sense of the apocalypse. The difficulty of the “enemy” to confront the
Jihadi enthusiasm and martyrdom also adds to the feeling of the historical
determination between the Al-Haqq/good and Al-Batil/evil.
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