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Religious and political leaders of all stripes claimed in the aftermath of September 11 that religion had nothing, or almost nothing, to do with the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. They rejected the notion that religion—or, Islam in particular—was responsible for international conflict. All of the world’s great religious traditions —“rightly understood”—so their adherents say, almost in the form of a postmodern cliché, preach a message of peace and goodwill.
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Thomas, S.M. (2005). Wars and Rumors of War? Religion and International Conflict. In: The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations. Culture and Religion in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973993_6
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