Understanding the Anger of Terrorists

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Anger is the most misunderstood of all human emotions. It is also the most powerful of all human emotions after the emotion of love.  The difference is, love builds and unifies people while anger divides and destroys people. 


In, worst case situations, in order to commit acts of violence, uncontrolled anger must be present. Anger ALERTS people that their sense of justice has been violated. Anger tells people they must 'right the wrongs' that have been done to them even if that meaning killing people. 



Anger blinds us to what we have in common with our fellowman and only allows us to see our hateful differences. Anger gives permission to 'angry people' to live by their own rules and disregard the rules of the country, state or community in which they live.

People who commit acts of violence or abuse other people allow their anger to run them rather than them running their anger. People who allow their anger to dictate their actions are victims of their own anger rather than controlling their anger and becoming the master of it.  

A person who has mastered their emotion of anger has non-physical courage while those people who are victims of their anger are only able to display physical courage, which often times, results in death. In the end, anger, not mastered, stops people from creating the life they want, the life they dream of having, the life they know God wants them to have.

I am as angry as any terrorist alive but I have chosen to use the 'energy of my anger' to learn how to live in harmony with people who think, act and believe differently than I do.  Anyone can kill or wound another human being but it takes a person of non-physical courage to use his anger to build a better world for everyone with no one left out.  I have been working for years developing and strengthening my non-physical courage. Why?  Because I intend for my non-physical courage to be the legacy I leave to my children, my grandchildren and the children who come after them. I am leaving this legacy to them in the hopes that 'non-physical courage' will be the tool that ends the path of violence and destruction and begins the path of peace, harmony and cooperation that men, women, and children everywhere can enjoy.
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What are your thoughts on the relationship between terrorism and anger?  Do you think terrorists are angry people? Are terrorists justified in their actions.  Who is responsible for the anger terrorist experience? Leave a comment in the comment section of this message, you can post your comments anonymously, if you wish.

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