er, they back up their imperative by appeal to the scriptures and insist they are doing God's work. Such thought lends itself to thinking of weapons of mass destruction as instrumental utilities. Hoffman includes in his analysis religious extremists who are Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, or Buddhist.
White reviews his idea that terrorism has fused with apocalyptic thinking, or the idea that God is soon to end the world. Thus God's soldiers must act before it is too late. Eschatological terrorism combines political belief with end-of-time theology, "a prescription for violence" (p. 52) because such terrorists want to usher in a new age, rejecting established social norms and the material benefits of established society: "All deterrents to violence are rendered meaningless by the promise of the new age.
The process of demonization is described as the basis on which wholesale killings are justified. Terrorists blame others for their troubles and make them scapegoats, which, as evil things, must be killed, an
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