Learning Objectives

This chapter will enable readers to do the following:

  1. Explain the concept of primary and secondary motives for religious terrorism.
  2. Understand the historical context of religious terrorism.
  3. Interpret some incidents of religiously motivated political violence as state-sponsored religious terrorism.
  4. Interpret some incidents of religiously motivated political violence as dissident-sponsored religious terrorism.
  5. Discuss the future of religious terrorism.