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Originally Posted by Swimmer
Being filled with humiliation and rage against the oppressors whoever, and wherever that may be, and then strapping exposives to your waist or driving an exlosive laden vehicle into a crowd upon promise also of being rewarded with virgins in heaven prior to detonation certainly is tinged with greed and selfishness. If they were pure in thier intentions then the suicide murderer would not have to be plied with any other inducements, or brainwashed.
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I think you're taking different things and mixing them together into a generic Islamist terrorist.
The virgin story I think is true, but is overplayed like it's the motivation...when in reality it's probably just to reassure someone not all that into killing themselves. You wouldn't kill yourself for that alone, you kill because you don't think there's another option and you want to be seen as someone who's fighting back with whatever you have.
Take a look at Palestine, it's been bombed to dust for the most part and the poverty is I've read at more than 50%. Granted there is a lot of blame to go around for this (i.e. Mr. Arafat), but for thousands of kids growing up with little to nothing, and living under Isreali near aparthide conditions...I don't think it's even remotely fair to say that their guilty of being "greedy".
Remember as well, that most of the terrorisim in the world is political rather than religious in origin.
-spence
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