Twenty years ago, a number of significant objects in the
United States underwent terrorist attacks. As a result, several thousand
people were killed, and members of the radical Islamist group Al-Qaeda
and its leader Osama bin Laden were declared terrorists, although there
are other opinions about the organizers and customers of these terrorist attacks. In this article, the author examines the ideological prerequisites
that have been accumulated for centuries in some trends in Islam, which
could become the driving motive for committing acts of terrorism by
adherents of radical Islamism.
Keywords
jihad, ideology, Islamism, radicalism, Salafism, takfir, terrorism, “pure” Islam.
