Road To Martrydom Summary

In the first documentary, “The Road to Martrydom”, we could appreciate how an England citizen, Omar, became the first westerner to carry out a suicide bombing. It is important to consider that he radicalized in England, then he started training with Al-Qaeda, and ended up being recruited by Hamas. He was a normal man, in fact, he was not interested in Muslims customs, and he had barely read the Coram; however, everything changed when he moved to London. At this point, his behavior started to change radically, he began listening to some persons, and he got convinced that he had to fight in the cause of Allah. He started moving to Iraq to receive training, and as we could see in the documentary, he and his friend ended up carrying out the suicide bomb in the Mike´s Place. What I perceived was that Omar believed in something he considered was right; but as you could imagine with other terrorists, he was not convinced in a hundred percent of what he was going to do, and that was happened, he died not by detonating the bomb, but by escaping to the see and dying drowned. …show more content…
This guy planned very well how he was going to commit his attacks, and basically his target was immigrants, and more specifically, followers of the Islam. His manifesto contained all the reasons and explanations about what he was going to do, and possible upcoming events. As I said, it is interesting the two points of the city where he attacked, basically because both of them were quite separated each other. While police departments and firefighter were busy taking care of the people of the first attack, he knew he would have the time to commit the massacre and kill as many people as he could in that island. Even though we can perceive he was individually radicalized, at the end of the documentary, he ended up creating sympathizers of his cause, his manifesto was well known since he sent it to around 6,000