Religious Fanaticism and its Relationship to the Attitude Towards Terrorism among University Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the level of religious fanaticism and the nature of the trend towards terrorism among university students and to identify the nature of the correlation between religious fanaticism and the trend towards terrorism, and to identify the extent of the contribution of religious fanaticism to the trend towards terrorism, in order to achieve the objectives of the research, (360) male and female students were selected. The College of Education / University of Anbar, as the researcher built research tools, the scale of religious fanaticism and the measure of tendency towards terrorism, and extracted for them the psychometric characteristics, and after applying the research tools to the sample, the results were as follows:

1- The level of religious fanaticism among university students is low, statistically significant, at (0.05).

2- Attitudes of students in the current research sample are negatively high towards terrorism and in statistical significance at (0.05).

3- There is a positive statistically significant correlation between attitudes towards terrorism and religious fanaticism at a significance level (0.05) for the research sample. In light of the results, the researcher developed a set of recommendations and proposals.