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Lastly, the modern war against terrorism makes the contemporary combats different from the holy wars. The latter were fought for propagation or suppression of a religion. This is not the case with the modern fight on terrorism that is not against any religion or religious ideology. In fact, these are against the thinking of terror-spreading through excessive use of violence. Modern wars on terrorism being fought in Afghanistan, Middle East and to some extent in Europe and Africa are completely different from what is called as holy war. In such wars the enemy is murdering humanity. Thus, it makes no sense whether he is a Muslim or a Christian. Further, it gives him a new identity of a terrorist. This justifies a modern war against him which works not on religious basis but in the grounds of saving humanity from terror.

In conclusion, wars are a reality. But they vary in their very nature defined by the agenda being pursued behind them. When the agenda is religious, they are termed as holy wars and when the agenda became economic, political and strategic; they are called Modern Wars. Today, the world is experiencing the modern wars which rarely have anything to do with the religious mindset. Nation states are devising and fighting these wars to ensure the maximum economic benefits for them in the form of favorable trade deals and free trade regimes. Further, the political interests of maintain strategic leverages in various regions enable them to shape their wars with modern mission which would not reflect spirit of any religious or holy cause in them but purely material. All this obvious material approaches of fighting wars today make them modern without becoming holy.