1. Terrorism is NOT a factor of religion, technology, country or a group , it can be thought of akin to a disease which analogically let us to believe that it affects a certain section of humanity... e.g syphilis .. long thought to be a white mans disease as it is seen afterwards every human is as much susceptable to it. 2. the root cause can be multiple but the foremost , to me is EGO... if a group of individuals have reasons to nurse a hurt ego and no legitimate ways of payback, they turn to violence to be heard and this has a whiplash effect. 3. terrorism burns with donated nutrition of hate which in turn is like pouring gas on a fire in an attempt to extinguish 4. the general solution would be to quarantine the issue , which is/was the method to counter epidemics 3.