Since the time of the Assassins, Islamic terrorism has been known worldwide, but today, unfortunately, this concept has become topicality sinister. Despite the fact that suicide, as well as killing other people is forbidden in the Quran, the concept of Shahid was formulated in Islam at the level of ideological doctrine. The information environment, in which modern Muslims live replicates consciously and deliberately the legend of the high religious status of Shahid, their sacrifice of life for the sake of Allah. Forcing people to self-sacrifice in the name of Islam is an invention of modern scholars of theology connected to the extremist organizations. For example, suicide bombers trainings are carried out in special camps in the Chechen Republic, which transform the personality of suicide bomber in a way he perceives the world as something hostile, deserving of destruction. Obviously, the number of terrorist acts and their victims, the last one occurred in the Moscow metro in 2010, demonstrates a significant threat for Russia and the development of the source of extremism in the North Caucasus. For the suicide bombers preparation, trainers use an individual approach based on a deep and professional psychological analysis of personality, often using both material incentives and mockery and violence. They select people, geographically and informationally isolated, living in difficult socioeconomic conditions, illiterate, survivors of personal tragedy, mentally and physically weak. At the same time they are convinced that Shahid does not feel pain, his sins are forgiven, and after his death, he and his family will deserve a place in paradise. Thus, the modern religious terrorism can be interpreted as “prohibitively deviant” social technology at the beginning of the third millennium. Such a transformation of religious self-sacrifice in the category of political action aimed at achieving a deeply immoral purposes, has nothing to do with any religion.
