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Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom

Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom

Pedahzur, Ami

Paperback

Series: Political Violence

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 0415770300
ISBN13: 9780415770309
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 22 2006
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

This highly topical new study clearly shows how there are at least two reasons to question the central role that is assigned to religion, in particular Islam, when explaining suicide terrorism.

  • suicide terrorism is a modern phenomenon, yet Islam is a very old religion. Except for two periods in the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, suicide was never part of Islamist beliefs and behaviours. Actually, Islam clearly forbids suicide, hence, the argument that Islamic religious beliefs are the main cause of suicide terrorism is inherently dubious
  • many suicide attacks have been carried out by secular organizations with little connection to fundamentalist Islam: Palestinian Fatah; the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and the Kurdish Workers Party. Moreover, one of the organizations that has employed this strategy devastatingly and regularly is the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam). Not only are members of this organization not Muslim, most of them are not religious at all.

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