Islamist Terrorism: What the Vatican Really Thinks

The terrorists of today seek to create fear and anxiety in the world, and thus weaken their adversaries, forcing them to spend enormous sums to defend themselves from attack, to restrict the space for the freedom and movement of their citizens, to keep them constantly in anxiety and alarm, knowing that terrorism is now international and can strike in any place and at any time.

This is why they make use of the means of communication. Unfortunately, the Western media, granting ample space to terrorist exploits – a space, it should be noted, that is all the greater as the ferocity of the act is more disturbing – perform a great service for terrorism, which it could never have hoped to obtain with its own means.

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