Contemporary global society is marked by fear, insecurity and discrimination produced by the new terrorism. The “war on terror” in retaliation of the 9/11 attacks in the United States has only increased terrorism worldwide. Insisting to its allies...
Contemporary global society is marked by fear, insecurity and discrimination produced by the new terrorism. The “war on terror” in retaliation of the 9/11 attacks in the United States has only increased terrorism worldwide. Insisting to its allies that to support the war on terror, for example the dispatching of troops, is to support the international mission for world peace, the United States encroached upon many Muslims’ human rights on grounds of eradicating the “new terrorism.”
A series of political, religious, and racial condemnations by the West on Islam has increased global terrorism, isolated a great many Muslims from the international society and produced thousands of civilian victims every year. Foreigners from non-governmental organizations and native Afghan cooperators, both of whom aided the Afghan people and worked for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, became the principal victims of the new terrorism.
This paper discusses the new terrorism occurring around Afghanistan, with the intention of understanding the present realities of the war on terror. In particular, through public opinion expressed on the Internet, the author examines how the abduction of twenty three Korean missionaries by the Afghan Taliban affected South Korean society.
It induced criticisms to the Korean Christian religion in international society. In domestic, it also led to criticisms and spread out through the Internet media. Finally opinions domestic as well as international made the Korean Christian religion critical and it had never happened over 120 years.
Especially theses movements were mainly formed by Netizen(means Koreans using Internet) and finally their opinions made anti-religion groups in the Internet society. In results, the Korean Christian religion changed themselves by self-examination.
Recently, Netizen build the opinion group out of individuals for social and economical issues. Furthermore, they are actively leading the trend of public opinions about religious problems as well as government policies.