Why do suicide bombers do what they do?

PaperPlates
PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
edited September 2006 in A Moving Train
What drives them to this type of madness?

answers here

http://www.orangepeels.nildram.co.uk/junk/suicidebombers.mp3
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  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    because it's all that they have left.
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  • WMA
    WMA Posts: 175
    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
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    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.
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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    Here I thought it was the sand.
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  • Hoon
    Hoon Posts: 175
    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.

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  • kristophed
    kristophed Posts: 73
    They want their 40 virgins.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Here I thought it was the sand.

    LOL!!!!!
  • Pickr
    Pickr Posts: 161
    Everyone else is.
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    lack of education.
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  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    health and dental plan?
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    religious mania. same reason people buy those left behind books or gun down abortion doctors.
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    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........
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  • ilana
    ilana Posts: 78
    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
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    I believe the pope answered this question sometime last week.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    They chose not to live anymore.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    because porn is banned in those countries.... ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    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
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    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
    lgt Posts: 720
    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
    thankyougrandma Posts: 1,182
    i say it's pure and simple brainwashing...
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