Religious Wave: The Iran Revolution

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Lastly, the Religious wave. According to David Rapoport, the fourth wave will continue to be the dominating force in terrorism attacks for many reasons. One of the reasons being that religious terrorist are using faith to justify violence. The Iran Revolution precipitated the religious wave, since they violently ended the monarchy of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, replacing it with a religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who was portrayed as a God. Following, the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan to preserve the Communist government. Some religious terrorist events included, the attempt from the Jewish terrorists to blow up Jerusalem’s sacred shrine. Also, the murdered of twenty-nice worshippers in Abraham’s tomb by a religious settler.