Chapter 7

album sleeve for The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory — an album which depicts Tupac Shakur as Jesus Christ. There’s also a numerical theory involved in all this and it's called the 7-day theory.What is the 7-day theory? Well, there are far too many numerical coincidences to the extent that one would believe they no longer are coincidences but clues left behind by the late rapper. Tupac was shot exactly 7 months after All Eyez On Me was released. The number 7 continues to come up as well. He…

July 7, 2005 was supposed to be a normal day in London, but little did London know this day would walk off down in history. On this Thursday morning, four Islamic suicide bombers were spread across London and separately detonated three bombs in succession. These bombs were detonated within the underground subways throughout the city. Later that day, a fourth bomb was detonated on a double-decker bus within the Tavistock Square. This attack would exit down as the first ever suicide attack within…

Suicide bombing is a sensitive topic to discuss, yet I will attempt to explain suicide bombings through the verstehen approach; the bomber’s perspective. This essay will explore Durkheim’s view of suicide and how it relates to our subject. In addition, we will look how suicide bombings are excused under Islamic religion and the conditions in Palestinian homelands that may promote jihad. Before an individual can understand through the eyes of the bomber, he/she should first comprehend Emile…

The main theoretical argument presented by Robert Pape on Suicide Terrorism was this ideology that suicide bombers emerged from people with political motives, and these motives can be a combination of religious fundamentalism resulting from an extreme indoctrination or psychological predisposition that might drive individuals to have a tendency to inflict harm on others, and to finally reclaim major territorial space the bombers sees as their homeland. Even though pape made mention of…

Deconstructing Terrorism: An Analysis of the Secular Premise of Suicide Bombings in the Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape This study on terrorism will define the primarily secular motivations for suicide bombers and other terrorists to strategically oppose foreign occupation of their country in the data collected in Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape. Traditionally, the use of terrorism has been propagandized by western…

The Disturbing Effects of Terrorism The article “Don’t Sacrifice our Liberties” by Cait Murphy states some interesting facts about terrorism. Murphy states that “the human cost of terrorism is unfathomable and the economic cost is incalculable”, but she insinuates that we have the responsible to determine the cost to our freedom. She goes on to argue that we loose a lot of our personal liberties in the unwanted wake of terrorism. “Air travel will never be the same; security checks will be more…

While rather rare before the 1980s, the use of suicide terrorism steadily rose into the early 2000s, leading to increased attempts by political scientists to explain the rise in popularity. In his 2003 article “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism” published in The American Political Science Review, Robert A. Pape attempts to explain how, contrary to other explanations, the rise of suicide terrorism was due to its strategic effectiveness and not rising fanaticism or religious extremism. Pape…

Religion may legitimize suicide Bombing on one level, however on another level the demonstration springs from the inspiration of the individual aircraft. Studies have demonstrated that numerous suicide planes, especially in created social orders, are not disturbed or wild-looked at aficionados with nothing to live for; surely, a noteworthy number of aircraft have originated from wage and training levels well over their nations' standards. Another expansive pattern, discernible in the various…

To try to sufficiently understand and explain the individual psychology of why people become involved in terrorism is almost impossible because there are so many determining factors to consider. This paper will analyze the effective psychological and sociological techniques used by Terrorist Leaders to change the psychological and behavioral factors of their followers. It will seek to give some answers on how does a Terrorist Leader influence, persuade, recruit and motivate the group’s followers…

Suicide: the act or instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily or intentionally, and suicide bombing: a bomb attack carried out by a person, especially a terrorist, who intends or expects to kill themselves as well as other people, contribute heavily in the brutal reality of terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Suicide terrorism, or suicide bombing, is not an act new to the world of terrorism. In fact,…