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Фундаментализам – фанатизам – тероризам
Fundamentalism – Fanaticism – Terrorism

Author(s): Radoslav Gaćinović, Vladan P. Stanković
Subject(s): Security and defense, Politics and religion, Criminology, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: religious fundamentalism; society; religious; integrism; religious fanaticism; extremism; terrorism

Summary/Abstract: The connection between: fundamentalism, fanatical behavior and actions and terrorism are correlative. Fundamentalists are turning to sources of faith: usually they are a rigid dogmatic – fanatic dedicated to „faith-what-it-is“. Unwilling to compromise, fundamentalists are excluded from the environment in which he lives. Time turns into a fanatic who is associated with similar yourself. Among these individuals brings forth the need to „take action“ – to act in order to save the world from evil secular order. They come together in small groups – organizations of the fanatics. Acts of violence were the most radical act of their political extremism. Object which are suffering in recent times, almost as a rule, civilian casualties. In recent times the religious terrorists due, to the availability of modern technology, more and more often appearing as lonely individuals. They were even more difficult to trace, but the discovery of such terrorist acts real small feats, in which engage significant: human, technical and financial resources.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 223-243
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian