ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a modest contribution to the understanding of the terrorism. It locates terrorism in the context of crisis situation of the modern world and seeks to situate Muslim suicide terrorism as a religious response to the consequences of European colonialism and crisis in society. It explores the 'Muslim suicide terrorism' not as a religious but as a sociological phenomenon. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus offers a useful way of understanding the ways in which the environments in which Muslim suicide terrorists are raised and cultural and material influences shape their disposition to the act, their means of interpreting the world, and ultimately how they express themselves politically. The terrorist subculture is a habitus that develops over a period of time as part of the pursuit of capital in the field and eventually embodies the agency that becomes the practice.
