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Why do terrorists blow themselves up? : Comments

By Riaz Hassan, published 17/9/2010

Increasing numbers of youth in conflict zones view suicide attacks as a way to call attention to the plight of their community.

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Taliban also runs schools that teach children to be suicide bombers.
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy showed this in a documentary "Inside a school for suicide bombers":

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sharmeen_obaid_chinoy_inside_a_school_for_suicide_bombers.html
Posted by kala, Friday, 17 September 2010 11:27:39 AM
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Posted by ChrisPer, Friday, 17 September 2010 2:58:07 PM
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ChrisPer

I don’t think this is a sympathetic presentation, I think it’s an honest attempt to understand why people blow themselves up for a cause, and how they perceive themselves and other like them. However much we may loathe the bombers, their causes and their methods, if we’re to counter them we need to know what motivates them. We can throw labels like “fanatic” at them, but that is not going to help us overcome them.

Evil deeds are often committed by people who believe their motives and actions to be noble and virtuous. To recognise this does not imply that they ARE noble and virtuous.
Posted by Rhian, Friday, 17 September 2010 3:06:42 PM
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It is a bit of a stretch to present altruism as the motivating force behind suicide bombings although that faulty mindset might prevail within those terrorist groups. Altruism should be judged on outcomes not dogma.

The manipulation of an uneducated and usually poor prospect into religious zealotry and hatred that lead to suicide bombings is not an altruistic act. It serves another agenda entirely.

What would better serve is education and not the sort that would be obtained in a Madrasa.

Suicide bombings packaged as altruism - whatever next.
Posted by pelican, Friday, 17 September 2010 3:13:55 PM
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People seem to forget that the Taliban had stopped the production of heroine in Afghanistan in 2000 hence there was a drug drought.Now under the auspices of the Us Govt produces 90% of the world's heroine.

Iran was a lie.There were no weapons of mass destruction and now the neo cons want to take Iran's oil.Afghanistan we learn has $trillions of resources and will be the main route for oil/gas pipelines from Turkmenistan.

Who could possible believe the outrageous conpiracy theory that 19 hi-jackers could beat the most powerful military machine on the planet,and plant explosives in all 3 buildings weeks before without anyone knowing.No that is a ridiculus conspiracy theory.
Posted by Arjay, Friday, 17 September 2010 8:17:03 PM
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It is a bit of a stretch to present altruism as the motivating force behind suicide bombings although that faulty mindset might prevail within those terrorist groups. Altruism should be judged on outcomes not dogma.
Pelican,
you're right on that one in my book. Isn't it just absolutely amazing what society can do when it is on a long slippery slide to destruction. A bit like the west is doing it now when one looks at it closely. Just look at all the great civilisations & how they faltered. The egyptians, the Maya, the Inka, the many highly developed cultures of the East. All down the tube. We're next. Why ? Because of too much focus on wrong education. Instead of levelling out when we reached the plateau of what society can achieve, we reach out for higher & higher, not accepting the obvious limits. We can't even accept natural demise anymore, we try to live past our use by date only to be a handicap to those who are supposed to take over. We just became too selfish as a society & now we're arriving at payback time. A suicide bomber is no less intelligent than the businessman who wants more growth. Both are brainwashed beyond recovery.
Posted by individual, Friday, 17 September 2010 8:27:24 PM
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