Abstract

While avoiding reductionism, we strive in this article to blend the spiritual as well as the material, the positive as well as the pejorative content o f ideology and indicate its constitutive role in the identity- formation o f a particular group or an individual. Basing ourselves on this concept o f ideology we seek to explain how terrorism is married to a violent ideology. Therefore to dislodge it we need to evolve an ideology that will effectively lead us all to value human life and the virtue o f justice.