The concept of the death drive – discovered by Freud at the beginning of the 20th century in the aftermath of WWI and as the hatred and the destructive drive that would be unleashed during WWII were rising – gives us a tool to ponder the new problems that we face today with the violent outbreak of a new extremist Islamist ideology: literalist Wahhabism. This ideology is based on a reinterpreted and fanaticized religious discourse that advocates ultra-violence and terror with a propaganda discourse that seeks to do away with democracy and threatens civilization. Similarities between Maoist ideology and Nazi ideology will also be exposed in order to better analyze this new destructive ideology.