That is... a surprisingly interesting idea. Maybe swap terrorists for a certain nationalist government aligned with a certain vegetarian-leaning religion?
Don't have a dog in this race, but doesn't that certain vegetarian-leaning religion also prohibit violence against human beings? How do the terrorists square such contradictions in their mind? And is that one of the many mysteries driving the narrative in GP's novel forward?
You'll not be surprised to hear that religions all have "national security exceptions" to their non-violence clauses. I offer as evidence: all the crazy religiously motivated violence perpetuated by any long living religions (the truly peaceful ones being beaten to death long ago).