Given the growing global threat of terrorism, it is significant that we gain an understanding of the history, nature and mechanisms under which terrorism operates. This is significant as it would shape the perspective of policy makers in dealing with issues of this nature. Terrorism, as it is understood, is the action of weak, non-state actors, individuals or groups, who for some reason feel repressed, marginalized and/or denied what they might consider a basic human right. All terrorism has political objectives, although perpetrators may use religious relics to appeal to a larger existing audience and invoke a response through violent acts to prove or propagate their point. Yoram Schweitzer in "Suicide Terrorism Development & Characteristics", Mark Sedgwick in "Al-Qaeda and the "Nature of Religious Terrorism" and Dr. James Armstrong, all demonstrate that suicide terrorist attacks are politically motivated even though the perpetrator can use religious symbolism to justify their actions. Looking at the areas of the world where terrorism is frequent, especially in the Middle East, it can be argued that the groups involved in terrorist activities are those who feel repressed and exploited by a power much larger.Terrorism, especially suicide terrorism, is prevalent in areas where systems of grave injustice appear to exist. Therefore, the actual use of terrorism by non-state actors is a tactic aimed at polarizing the population towards them favor by killing people en masse are attempting to eliminate the idea that only the state can legitimately kill, thus undermining state authority. As Armstrong, Sedgwick, and Schweitzer exemplify, suicide terrorism is not a new phenomenon, but an old historical phenomenon . And that just as modern terrorist organizations, particularly Al-Qaeda, use religious concepts to motivate their actions (although their immediate goal is political), various older terrorist groups have used a similar approach to achieve their political end. To understand the history of suicide terrorism and how terrorist groups in the past have used religious overtones to propagate their political agenda, Armstrong highlighted the Zealots, an extremist Jewish sect that opposed Jesus. The Zealots engaged in the political assassination of their political enemy, knowing that they would be killed in the process. While their ultimate goal might have been religious, the zealots' immediate goal was political. Similarly, during the third century, the Assassins, a notorious terrorist wing (similar in nature to Al-Qaeda) in modern Syria, murdered many of their political opponents to establish their own form of Islam..