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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5589)1/24/2004 12:40:03 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 6945
 
This fool can't even be consistent on the cause of suicide bombing throughout his essay. In one section, he explains it (correctly) as a manifestation of a cult of death in which the suicide killers seek glory for themselves and material rewards for their families:

the shuhada have become a cult. Many Middle Eastern nations grant stipends to the families of these "martyrs" (so called because the Quran expressly forbids suicide). Framed pictures of the deceased are paraded through the streets before taking their place in homes and in bizarre public galleries. Bombers attain a legendary status, proportionate, of course, to the havoc they wreak. An attitude of pride in their "accomplishments" is promoted among children. These rituals are well on their way to becoming as institutionalized as betrothals and harvest seasons.

Later he takes up the contradictory claim that they are motivated by hopelessness and suffering. Studies have shown that suicide killers are anything but - they frequently come from relatively privileged backgrounds within their societies.

"People who realize that they have no future can be convinced to endure their suffering; people who realize they have no present will kill."

Even later he starts mumbling about existentialism - The French novelist/existentialist Albert Camus held that the only philosophical question worth debating was whether, in an absurd world, one should commit suicide.

There is really a clash of absurdities going on in this fellows head.
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