Terrorists Motives

Terrorist Motives and the Psychology of the Individual

The psychology of individual terrorists is the driving force behind heinous , violent actions that indiscriminately take innocent lives across the world . Terrorists , those who use fear and violence to forward their warped causes and beliefs , justify their horrible actions with flawed and lofty motivational goals and desires . Religious fanaticism , martyrdom , jealousy and victimhood fuel the devastating attacks of hell-bent jihadists while logic , compassion and empathy for innocent victims are ignored or viewed as inconceivable . Terrorists see their victims as deserving , sub-human vermin , while

it is the terrorists who actually deserve the fate of extermination . Their warped motives and their belief in what they are doing are no excuse , and the terrorists must be stopped before they can strike again

Terrorists have routinely used lethal violence to instill fear (Wilkinson , 2003 ,

. 132 . No terrorist incident is more iconic or illustrative of the lengths that terrorists will go to than the devastating September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington , D .C . It is difficult to imagine the depth of depravity required to hatch and carry out a plan that kills approximately three thousand innocent people until one realizes the individual psychological mindset that terrorists possess . First , one must realize how the terrorist views his enemy as subhuman and deserving of the fate of death . Once the evil terrorist minimizes the stature of his enemy , cruel and unimaginable acts of violence become easier in the terrorist 's deranged mind

It becomes easy and...