A friend of mine,who also happens to be a well-trained and reflective alim was shocked when he returned to Pakistan to study Islamic Economics .He mentioned how the people he met were fanatical about issues such as the length of pants men were wearing.If your pants went down to the ankle,you were already a kafir(unbeliever).In thinking about this, I realized another important source of terrorism besides the despair factor-fanaticism.There are strains of this fanaticism throughout the Islamic community nowadays.Whether it concerns how much hair a woman needs to cover(look at the old pictures of women in Pakistan and Palestine and you’ll know what I mean),how the sunnat has to be performed,what the meaning of ‘Isma’ is in respect of the Prophets a.s and what is halal in food and medicine,this strain of fanaticism runs deep in the Muslim community,especially in Third World countries.Although most of these people do not advocate murder as the remedy.when you look in their eyes at their reaction,you feel like they do want to kill you.This non-terroristic fanaticism needs to be addressed as well.After all,our Prophet saws did teach that ours is the Middle way,the way of moderation.