On September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorists hijacked American airplanes leaving from Washington DC and headed west towards California. After hijacking the planes the men flew two planes into the World Trade Center in New York and one plane into the Pentagon in Washington DC. A fourth plane hijacked crashed in Philadelphia; never reaching it's designated target. The terrorist attack created a magnitude of devastation across America, amounting to the largest attack worldwide to date. Though this attack raised awareness about terrorism in the United States, many East-Asian countries have been living with the reality of terrorism for decades. However, over the last decade attacks have increased and spread outward, away from the east and into the west. Why have Islamic terrorist acts expanded to western countries? Why has the institution of terrorism become such an intriguing profession for many middle- eastern men? Why has there been a steady increase in terrorism over the last decade? The answers to these questions come from complex psychological aspects in the fundamentalist mentality and way of life.
             Islam is a religion based on the teachings from the Koran, a book containing the Prophet Mohammed's prophecies from Allah (God). Many Muslims interpret the Koran in ways to verify destructive and harmful acts their organizations orchestrate. With terrorism on a significant incline and technology advancing by the day, interpretations have the ability to create agents of mass destruction. Destructive deadly acts committed annually by terrorists have been increasing steadily the past five years starting in 1995 when 420 terrorist attacks occurred worldwide; presenting a significant increase from the previous years 322 (Leader). Though the number of attacks alone appears quite alarming, the new tactics and motives demonstrated by the religiously inclined terrorists, such as Islamic fundamentalists, are even more shocking and have lead...