Suicide Bombing Culture

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Suicide bombing is a spark in a field of dry grass. “The Koran forbids the ones taking one’s own life and this prohibition is still generally observed”.(Brooks 175) What makes them want to go die for there country as well as for there religion? David brookes clearly answered this question in the passage “The culture of Martyrdom: how suicide Bombing Became Not Just a Means but an End”.
The suicide bombing has been on the rise ever since April of 1983; when a group of 240 people were killed by an Islamic resistance movement called Hezbollah. “At that point the psychology shifted. We will not see peace soon, many Palestinians concluded, but when it eventually comes, we will get everything we want. We will endure, we will fight, and we will suffer for that final victory.” (Brooks 175) The people are determined to get what they want and they will stop at nothing to get it all. Suicide bombing unleashed the deepest and most addictive human passion, vengeance and the desire for religions purity, earthly glory. “Palestinian
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They are well educated men and women who are devoted to their religion and will stop at nothing to win the religions war. The society that these people live in influence them to think that it is okay to commit suicide bombing; they actually envy and desire to become a martyr. Fighting this war is vital to them and they will stop at nothing to finish it. We must understand that to them government is there religion and a religious war is their country's war as well. “Anyone past childhood, man or woman, is drafted into the Israeli army. Every Israeli is a soldier in the army, either in practical terms or because he is a reservist soldier who can be summoned at any time for war. This fact needs no proof. Those they call 'civilians' are in effect 'soldiers' in the army of the sons of Zion”. (The Koran Permits Martyrdom

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