Abstract:

The main aim of this study is to investigate the causes of Islamist/Islamic terror which has been increasing nowadays. On this basis, primarily this investigation is being started from the point of the construction of Islam as a political ideology and the appearance of political Islamic thought. The main argument of this study is that the primary reason of Islamic/Islamist terror is the unification of political Islam and nationalist ideology at the national (micro) and global (macro) level. Thus this study explains Islamist terror with intersection of Islamist thought with the nationalist ideology and the transformation of this unity into an identity struggle. When this nationalism has gained more aggressive features, the attacks for the sake of Islam have increased. The reason of such a process in political Islam depends a transformation of the West itself. As a result of both of these transformation processes, terror and the types of attack which have lost ethical values have replaced the classical wars.

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