"In the Name of God" - Religious Terrorism

The song "In the Name of God" from Sabaton's "Attero Dominatus" is about religious terrorism in general.

Terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Acts of terrorism have been performed by many groups, however, this song focus particularly on acts of terror performed by religious groups.

Terrorism is not legally defined in all jurisdictions; the statutes that do exist, however, generally share some common elements. Terrorism involves the use or threat of violence and seeks to create fear, not just within the direct victims but among a wide audience. The degree to which it relies on fear distinguishes terrorism from both conventional and guerrilla warfare.

In order to attract and maintain the publicity necessary to generate widespread fear, terrorists must engage in increasingly dramatic, violent, and high-profile attacks. These have included hijackings, hostage takings, kidnappings, mass shootings, car bombings, and, frequently, suicide bombings.

Although apparently random, the victims and locations of terrorist attacks often are carefully selected for their shock value. Schools, shopping centres, bus and train stations, and restaurants and nightclubs have been targeted both because they attract large crowds and because they are places with which members of the civilian population are familiar and in which they feel at ease. 

The goal of terrorism generally is to destroy the public’s sense of security in the places most familiar to them. Major targets sometimes also include buildings or other locations that are important economic or political symbols, such as embassies or military installations. 

The hope of the terrorist is that the sense of terror these acts engender will induce the population to pressure political leaders toward a specific political end.

The deadliest terrorist attack to date were the attacks perfromed by Al-Qaeda against the United States on the 11th of Semptember, 2001

These were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks that saw four commercial airplanes being hijacked and used to attack both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon and the fourth was directed at the White House, however, it crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. 

Picture: Firefighters search for survivors following the collapse of the twin towers.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism