WESTER ACTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE FORMATION OF SUNITA JIHADISM

The present article aims to expose the phenomenon of jihadism, the Islamic terrorist movement, as a retaliatory result of the process of symbolic and factual violence exercised by Western foreign policy, especially the North American one. Western actions, especially US policy in the Middle East, were justified in cosmopolitan / triumphalist pretensions, such as military actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and support for some resistance movements in the Arab Spring, as happened disastrously in Libya and Syria. So, can universalist discourse be a justifying means of violence? What is its repercussion in the formation of the "new Terrorism", materialized in the ISIS / Daesch movement?