Islamists Motivation

1. Characterize the psychological profile of most Islamist terrorist recruits, what attracts them to particular groups, and to what extent they are clinically mentally ill. Without a regular supply of recruits, Islamist terrorism will extinct. As a result, Islamist terrorist continue to recruit and win the hearts and minds of potential Islamic converts. To a larger extent, terrorism is a natural and inevitable extension of fundamentalist Islamic faith. Islam tend to disassociate itself from Islamic terrorism, but Islamist terrorists drive their inspiration from the same religion. The psychological make-up of Islamic terrorists are driven by some chapters of the so called Holy book – The Quaran. Of course, there are well grounded Muslims who do not accept violence, but there are more Muslims who either directly or indirectly support the course of Islamic terrorists. …show more content…
They recruit vulnerable Muslims, indoctrinate them and use them for what they describe as the “holy war”- Jihadism. It is this fundamental ideology that drive most Islamic terrorists. They invoke Allah and the Koran, they denounce their targets for being unholy, and they speak of a divine calling and a scriptural obligation to avenge the “crusader” and the “infidel.”-largely from the West. Allah wa kubar (God is Great), is mentioned in all violence associated with Islamic terrorists. This leads to the fact that at the core Islamist terrorist recruitment, is the impartation of the caliphate. These characteristics typically separate Islamist terrorist recruits from other religious