Terrorism, Islamic Insurgency, and Religious War

Terrorism, Islamic Insurgency, and Religious War This chapter’s focus on terrorism, Islamic insurgency, and religious warfare provides a framework for characterizing what has been termed the global war on terrorism. The uses of the Internet as an instrument to collect information, provide information, or even to function as an instrument of attack has provided terrorist organizations a transformational tool of enormous power and importance. Indeed, the organizational structures of terrorist groups, as well as the nature of the conflict itself have been forever altered as a result of the terrorist use of the World Wide Web and the electronic and digital environment now freely available in a totally unregulated worldwide capacity.