Just war and Anti-terrorism Army

Religion, September 11, the “War on Terror” and the “Clash of civilizations”:
The Future of Religious Diversity in Indonesia.
Kristanto Budiprabowo (tatok)

Terrorism can be analyzed in several perspectives. First, in the first time the act of terror happened and take many lost, people see it as a disaster. Moreover, as any disaster, terrorist act creates “epistemological opportunity” in all of human dimension. After the disaster caused by terrorist act, the strongest reflection is about identity, nationality, religiosity, and the correlation among them. In interreligious relationship, this “epistemological opportunity” can be both in the contras direction whether to increase intolerance or to create new understanding. Refer to the September 11 tragedy, the dynamic on the worldwide politics and interreligious relationship post disaster can creates a space for each country and religion to aware it latent. Now is the opportunity for religions to re-identify their existence for the new human relationship in democratic, justice, and full with understanding and respect.
Second, most of us may agree that after the September 11 and the following terrorism attack worldwide, the face of the world socio-politic and the interreligious relationship come to the new era. At the political perspective, the reaction of a country is influenced not only by the dominant discourse among the politician based on the political trend and the prospective alliance, but also by religious leader from various religion and denominations. The big question to this reaction which is sometime ambiguous is about the concept of war. If we see that terrorism is not an act of war, whatever the argumentation behind the act, a country reaction should be also not a strategically military attack as in the wartime. As far as we see terrorism as an act of war and react with the same method, the question about who is the real terrorist will always rise. Is there a “just war” that can practice in fair although it is doing to eliminate the threat of terrorism?
Furthermore, at the economical perspective, terrorism is a sexy issue that always marketable. Even though terrorism attack like September 11 is a tragedy for many people in the world, it is an opportunity for the media, authors, and politicians to invest their asset for future benefit. Terrorism attack is a rude action and be more impolite in the market. In my opinion, beside the question about the socio-political impact in future international relation, it is also an open question in the immediate global market. Who get the biggest benefit from the threat of terrorism?