Yes, it is quite interesting.
I read news of the ME in some other languages, as well. The impression I get is that suicide bomber candidates have significantly increased in numbern in the past six months. Hamas people were quoted as saying "We are literally turning young people away". I am not sure if all this demand (to be a suicide bomber!) is because of brainwashing.
You make you own judgement, but mine is that there is now a perceived glory in being a suicide bomber - not because of brainwashing/education/Quran but because they realized it WORKS in getting back to their oppressors. That's the feeling I get.
One more thing:
Unlike the Islamist human bombs, the kamikazes were promised no virgins in the afterlife, but were told over and over that they would find in death an eternal happiness. One pilot, who was turned down as a kamikaze because he had a wife and children, returned home to find that his wife had killed herself and their two children, age two and four, to free her husband to do what he needed to do. He flew to his death five months later.
Such is death that can be not proud.
I am sure Ms Suzanne Fields is a very nice and smart person, but she has zero understanding of the Japanese culture, and their sense of honor. She says the Japanese kamikazes were told "over and over that they would find in death an eternal happiness" and that's why they killed themselves in attacking their enemies???
This sort of thing really surprises me. I would assume someone who tries to write about a culture would at least read a book on them or something. Does she not understand that the wife kills herself and the children to free the husband so he can perform his honorable duty to his country?
Not that I would ever do such a thing myself, this is belittling of an honorable behaviour because the author is so far from understanding it, by saying "they were promised happiness on the other side". |
