RE: Suicide Terrorism & Religion
May 6, 2012 at 7:41 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2012 at 7:53 am by Tempus.)
I've since watched all the videos. It seems my initial impression was correct. Apparently their data is public too, which may be interesting to look at.
I'd recommend all four parts, he makes a bizarre claim at near the beginning (about the first attempt to blow up the WTC*), but other than that everything seems pretty sound. I'm sceptical that Islam is even the way they convince others to give up there lives. My own personal thought (partially based on facts, partially on speculation) is that religion (in general, no specific religions) can serve as a contributing, but non-essential factor to convincing others to perform suicide terrorism. I can imagine it exacerbating the problem though.
*He seems to suggest that the reason the US didn't "turn itself upside down" with the first attack like it did with 9/11 is because it wasn't a suicide attack. It would seem pretty obvious to me that the reason the US didn't "turn itself upside down" is because the tower didn't actually fall and thousands of people weren't killed. It wasn't the fact that the people committed suicide that shocked people, it was the fact that heavy casualties had been inflicted upon a civilian population in one of the most iconic cities in the country - a place far removed from the battlefields in the middle east.
(May 2, 2012 at 3:33 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I haven't watched the video, but for a long time I have felt that Islam is not the cause for the bombings. It is the mechanism by which they convince others to give up their life. The causes appear to be political, not religious.
I'd recommend all four parts, he makes a bizarre claim at near the beginning (about the first attempt to blow up the WTC*), but other than that everything seems pretty sound. I'm sceptical that Islam is even the way they convince others to give up there lives. My own personal thought (partially based on facts, partially on speculation) is that religion (in general, no specific religions) can serve as a contributing, but non-essential factor to convincing others to perform suicide terrorism. I can imagine it exacerbating the problem though.
*He seems to suggest that the reason the US didn't "turn itself upside down" with the first attack like it did with 9/11 is because it wasn't a suicide attack. It would seem pretty obvious to me that the reason the US didn't "turn itself upside down" is because the tower didn't actually fall and thousands of people weren't killed. It wasn't the fact that the people committed suicide that shocked people, it was the fact that heavy casualties had been inflicted upon a civilian population in one of the most iconic cities in the country - a place far removed from the battlefields in the middle east.
