ABSTRACT
To bear witness to the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity as a national outpouring of grief and a memorializing of those who have passed away is a very touching and deeply emotional process. Yet the trauma from terrorism is different, and is part of the intended psychological effects whereby indiscriminate violence is the means to create terror and fear as a deliberate political act designed to incite hatred and further bloodshed that aims to threaten the innocent, to shock the population, and to create enemies among the non-combatant civil population. This terrorist atrocity constitutes a form of trauma first to those who experienced it and survived, their relatives and friends and affects the whole Muslim community worldwide. Similar expressions of support against hatred and for tolerance and co-existence have been made by many world leaders. Increasingly, in the modern world we have come to experience acts of terrorism and civil war as a daily possibility.
