<b>The Saint, The Criminal And The Terrorist
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually, the act goes beyond transformation: <b>terrorism is trans-substantiated crime. âTrans-substantiationâ refers to the miraculous transformation of some particular substance into another one. (During the Mass, for instance, Roman-Catholics believe that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.) </b>This happens in the case of terrorism as well: crime becomes morally praiseworthy. It does not concern so much a particular crime, but rather the transformation of the entire domain of crime. This trans-substantiation results in the re-presentation of crime as morally praiseworthy. We suggest that what brings about this âmiracleâ is an ideology, which we would like to call âthe ideology of crime.â It is our hypothesis that such an ideology exists today and that acts of crime can become acts of terrorism because of what this ideology does and how it does so.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We know that Trans-substantiation as portrayed in the roman gospels encompasses getting the colonized to feast (ironically) on their own awaited Messiah, whose identity is actually overtaken (again ironically) by the colonial power. This would suggest that one function of the gospels was to normalize the crimes of the colonial power (as terrorism)..
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually, the act goes beyond transformation: <b>terrorism is trans-substantiated crime. âTrans-substantiationâ refers to the miraculous transformation of some particular substance into another one. (During the Mass, for instance, Roman-Catholics believe that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.) </b>This happens in the case of terrorism as well: crime becomes morally praiseworthy. It does not concern so much a particular crime, but rather the transformation of the entire domain of crime. This trans-substantiation results in the re-presentation of crime as morally praiseworthy. We suggest that what brings about this âmiracleâ is an ideology, which we would like to call âthe ideology of crime.â It is our hypothesis that such an ideology exists today and that acts of crime can become acts of terrorism because of what this ideology does and how it does so.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We know that Trans-substantiation as portrayed in the roman gospels encompasses getting the colonized to feast (ironically) on their own awaited Messiah, whose identity is actually overtaken (again ironically) by the colonial power. This would suggest that one function of the gospels was to normalize the crimes of the colonial power (as terrorism)..