The role of the religion in social changes through crime (with emphasis on the Islam role in terrorism)

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Nourooz Karegari ¹ (* Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [e-mail])

Received: 2021-05-30 Accepted : 2021-08-25 Published : 2022-03-21

Keywords: Terrorism, Islam, religion, violence,

Abstract :

Islam as a divine religion nowadays faces with some charges base on its relation with terrorist attacks. According to these charges, it is claimed that the most of terrorist attacks are done by Muslims and so it would mean that there is a direct connection between Islamic believes and terrorist attacks. In this essay, which has been done analytically using the profile of terrorist groups, we will show that the reality of these kind of groups is different from what is shown. On the other hand, the foundation of the religious believes are in contrast with the violence terrorist attacks. These kinds of attacks always originate from political motives and in the case of religious violence, religious believes are the sole mean to achieve these political goals; either for advancement of the political goals or for providing a base to empower the political power through committing violence on the religious believes.