Why do suicide bombers do what they do?

PaperPlates

What drives them to this type of madness?

answers here

http://www.orangepeels.nildram.co.uk/junk/suicidebombers.mp3

enharmonic

because it's all that they have left.

WMA

I imagine it is for the same reasons that people join any military and risk their lives. When they die they call it 'sacrificing' or 'giving their lives for ...'

If you are highly religious it is probably is easier giving up your life for something you believe in also. If they believe they will end up in paradise when they die, dying doesn't seem quite as bad I'd guess.

enharmonic

What most of us in the west can't appreciate is that death is a suitable alternative to the lives that many of these people live. They have nothing TO live for.

PaperPlates

Here I thought it was the sand.

Hoon

How about a video response to this question from Derek Wallace?


Capturing Terrorists Vs. Preventing Terrorism
September 23, 2006, 05:23 AM

Misdirection - it's the word of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09l8iqPmE6M

kristophed

They want their 40 virgins.

mca47

PaperPlates wrote:

Here I thought it was the sand.

LOL!!!!!

Pickr

Everyone else is.

sponger

lack of education.

stupidcorporatewhore

health and dental plan?

soulsinging

religious mania. same reason people buy those left behind books or gun down abortion doctors.

somebodyelsessky2020

Brainwashed idiots..Their God wants them to splatter themselves and inocent people into pieces...yeah some God huh where can I sign up for this retard nation...If only a few could return from the dead to tell the others where they ended up........

ilana

there religeon encorages suicide bombing, every thing else is just excuses
thee are peoples who have suffered alot worse then them, and they didnt resort to murder

sponger

I believe the pope answered this question sometime last week.

Ms. Haiku

They chose not to live anymore.

dunkman

because porn is banned in those countries....

lgt

ilana wrote:

there religeon encorages suicide bombing, every thing else is just excuses
thee are peoples who have suffered alot worse then them, and they didnt resort to murder

I believe it's not simply a question of religion. It's an effective way to inflict terror with very cheap means. It's not just a prerogative of Islamist fundamentalists. In Japan, you had the kamikaze, different reasons, but again, using the suicide of a person to the cause they were fighting.

As to why they do it, it's a mixture of indoctrination and thinking that martyrdom is the most effective method to achieve their aims. Obviously, to me that is just insane. But how desperate must people be to think that killing themselves will further their cause?

Then, again, until the West changes their Middle East policies, we will still have suicide bombings.

soulsinging

dunkman1974 wrote:

because porn is banned in those countries....

i think there is honestly a lot more truth to this than anyone would care to admit. the oppressive prohibition of one of humanity's most basic urges is ridiculous. catholics tend to go wild once they can, so do a lot of those prim and proper christian girls once they get to college and can fuck like rabbits without consequences. the only difference is, there is no outlet for these guys. the women know they face execution if they give it up and the penalties for the guys are also pretty harsh as i recall. it's fucked up and very unhealthy.

lgt

soulsinging wrote:

i think there is honestly a lot more truth to this than anyone would care to admit. the oppressive prohibition of one of humanity's most basic urges is ridiculous. catholics tend to go wild once they can, so do a lot of those prim and proper christian girls once they get to college and can fuck like rabbits without consequences. the only difference is, there is no outlet for these guys. the women know they face execution if they give it up and the penalties for the guys are also pretty harsh as i recall. it's fucked up and very unhealthy.

how do you explain then women suicide bombers?

thankyougrandma

i say it's pure and simple brainwashing...

dunkman

soulsinging wrote:

i think there is honestly a lot more truth to this than anyone would care to admit. the oppressive prohibition of one of humanity's most basic urges is ridiculous. catholics tend to go wild once they can, so do a lot of those prim and proper christian girls once they get to college and can fuck like rabbits without consequences. the only difference is, there is no outlet for these guys. the women know they face execution if they give it up and the penalties for the guys are also pretty harsh as i recall. it's fucked up and very unhealthy.

so its not just me who's a horny fucker then!!!


I agree with the sentiment of Mr Soulsinging here... I genuinely believe that the sexual repression within religion leads to a lot of problems... maybe it doesnt directly lead to Suicide Bombers... but if a young chap came to me and said " i wanna be a suicide bomber" first thing i'd offer him was a computer, internet connection, a darkened room and an industrial size box of tissues... i'm guessing once he had his eyes opened so to speak he'd become a fully fledged Westerner

hippiemom

lgt wrote:

how do you explain then women suicide bombers?

same way

dunkman

lgt wrote:

how do you explain then women suicide bombers?

same as men suicide bombers but with tits and no dangly bits...

Cosmo

Maybe, if we gave them tanks and planes and missiles and rockets... oh, and uniforms... then, everyone would be happy... right?

macgyver06

i think does come down to Self Righteous Selflessness

even flow?

Cosmo wrote:

Maybe, if we gave them tanks and planes and missiles and rockets... oh, and uniforms... then, everyone would be happy... right?

I am on the same page as you????


If they had airplanes and helicopters and tanks, then there would be no need to blow themselves up. Hell it isn't even a fair fight and people bitch about the "terrorist" action. If they had the fire power they would complain that they aren't using it nice enough for the rest of the world.

Are the people who blow themselves up on par with the kamikaze pilots in WWII? We know they were honoured by their peers. Anything is legal and fair in war and oppression. Or at least what you have as your resource at the time of history.

macgyver06

even flow? wrote:

I am on the same page as you????


If they had airplanes and helicopters and tanks, then there would be no need to blow themselves up. Hell it isn't even a fair fight and people bitch about the "terrorist" action. If they had the fire power they would complain that they aren't using it nice enough for the rest of the world.

Are the people who blow themselves up on par with the kamikaze pilots in WWII? We know they were honoured by their peers. Anything is legal and fair in war and oppression. Or at least what you have as your resource at the time of history.

kamikaze pilots were citizens of a country. and were mislead by their government in their own 'like' time of patriotism, nationalism, romanticism.....poor guys..

Cosmo

even flow? wrote:

I am on the same page as you????


If they had airplanes and helicopters and tanks, then there would be no need to blow themselves up. Hell it isn't even a fair fight and people bitch about the "terrorist" action. If they had the fire power they would complain that they aren't using it nice enough for the rest of the world.

Are the people who blow themselves up on par with the kamikaze pilots in WWII? We know they were honoured by their peers. Anything is legal and fair in war and oppression. Or at least what you have as your resource at the time of history.

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I think we're on the same page.
The people who complain about their tactics seem to approve killing by technologically advanced weaponry. Maybe if the U.S. gave Hezbollah some Spectre Gunships, Apache Longbows and F-16s, they wouldn't resort to bomb vest and the people who complain would be satisfied.

even flow?

macgyver06 wrote:

kamikaze pilots were citizens of a country. and were mislead by their government in their own 'like' time of patriotism, nationalism, romanticism.....poor guys..

As opposed to the nomads of the world that we are discussing in this thread? Funny how after 911, I read, had it told to me, heard it on the radio, watched it on t.v. and all those cases told me where every one of the "terrorists" came from. You get your info from different sources?

thankyougrandma

China will never be attacked cause they have a powerfull army, Iran and North Korea are not the most dominant army but they're still stronger than what you've seen in Afghan., Irak or Lebanon. So they obviously look at the power of the military, before invading an "axis of evil" country...

"Giving" an army to those nations would prevent invasions from foreign country, probably preventing most of the terrorist attacks in those regions, probably leading to less alienation towards the "west", leading to less terrorist attacks in the "west" country... Then those militaries would respond to the state and to those state government, therefore it would be possible to held a nation government accountable for the actions of their army (situation in Darfur right now), instead of pure generalization and speculations over the "funding" of terrorist groups and "support" from government to terrorist groups. Anyway it was just some thoughts...