Ethnoreligious terrorism: criminal analysis of crime motivation

Ethnoreligious terrorism has now become widely spread inthe world. It is possible to assign special motives of participants of terrorist actions to criminological features of ethnoreligious terrorism.Committing a crime the person realizes the social and international danger of the act, expects and desires a certain criminal result.Thus, the correct estimation of any behaviour, including the criminal one, is impossible without understanding its motives and purposes.The motive and purpose are mental phenomena, which, combined with the fault, are the subjective part of a crime. The problem of theanalysis of the motive of criminal activity is most delicate and difficult. In this case the researcher should face consideration of religiousand ethnic factors of the criminal characteristics of a criminal-terrorist or a criminal group. European researchers subjectively describethe person of terrorists in Islamic radical groups representing them as egocentrics and psychopaths. Actually, they are globalised youngmen who identify themselves with the virtual and imagined Muslim umma. They move from one venue of jihad to another, they visitpreparation camps. They never refer to traditions or traditional Islam. In preparation camps young insurgents learn only those fragmentsof the Koran where it is told about the struggle with the infidels and voluntary martyr death for faith. Radical lawyers publish instructionsbased on the Koran and Sheriyat to justify terror. Therefore, the first motive for the Mojahedins who are terrorists is the convictionthat all their actions are legal from the point of view of Islam. The second significant motive for acts of terrorism in radical groups is thecorporate approval of terror reached by the oath for fidelity - bayat. According to the legal substantiation of jihad all the Muslims whoare going to battle, should swear the fidelity oath to their political or military leaders. According to the author, arguments of permissionof terror from the position of religion and its approval by the terrorist corporation are the basic motives of terrorist activity for the membersof Islamic radical associations.

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