Overview

The book offers an extensive background to the history, religion, politics, cognitive psychology, and anthropology that explains the behaviour of fanatical political movements and terrorism. This is not a book of theory, but of factual examples.

The book examines human nature as it has been demonstrated, tested, and moulded in myriad established cultures and in special environments. The book lets one understand better what is happening in our world today.

If a reader seeks a universal explanation or theory, he will need to formulate one himself from the data provided herein.