Abstract
Violent extremism and radicalization through hatred, frustration and injustice has been increasing in the contemporary world. Those behaviours and the attitudes further lead to various forms of terrorism in the world society. Violent radicalization, though, is a different phenomenon, as not every radicalized individual can be a terrorist; however, it may circumvent to terrorism as well as lead the way to be a violent extremist for achieving their political, and religious ideological goals. In the West, Islam as a religion has been propagated behind the contemporary terrorism in the world due to the misunderstanding, and misinterpretation of the religion. A few academic researches especially Bernard Lewis’s The Roots of the Muslim Rage played a crucial role defining that misunderstanding. This article, hence, critically analyses to remove such misunderstanding for building peace in the world.