Authors: A. G. SVETLAKOV, doctor of economic science, professor, Perm State Agrarian-Technological University named after Academician D. N. Pryanishnikov (23 Petropavlovskaya Str., 614990, Perm; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Keywords: Islam, Islamism, Muslimization, technology of controlled chaos, Islamist terrorism, standard of living, quality of life, radical movement.
Abstract: Islam is a world religion that combines centuries-old history, traditions, cultural and spiritual values and moral ideals based on peace, good-neighbourly relations, tolerance and respect for other faiths. The article deals with the problem of combining the concepts of “Islam” and “Islamism”. It is established that the religious “surrogate” in the form of extremism and terrorism, parasitizing on the cultural and spiritual values of Islam, the result of geostrategic contradictions between the two superpowers, the USSR and the United States at the turn of 80-ies, actively supporting and encouraging nationalist, Islamic movements and trends in the struggle for the right to dominate in the middle East region. Problems in ethno-confessional relations, national policy, and the economy do not leave confidence in the successful confrontation between pseudo-religious and terrorist organizations and call into question the effectiveness of a military solution to this issue. The article analyzes the state of the relationship between globalization, the process of Islamic revival and the phenomenon of “Islamist terrorism” as a product of the geopolitical concept of “controlled chaos”. On the basis of statistical data, it is concluded that the prevailing influence of socioeconomic factors on the degree of manifestation of terrorist activity of the population. It is established that in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, where socio-economic issues are resolved at a level that provides a decent living for citizens, for terrorism, no matter what face he took, there is no solid social basis. It is necessary to resist the phenomenon of Islamist terrorism in three main directions: by force ‒ against those who have embarked on the path of terrorism; ideological ‒ by supporting traditional schools of Russian Islam; by socio-economic ‒ involving the creation of a certain level of welfare of the population, in which the transition to a terrorist life would become unprofitable.
