About Suicide Attacks

About Suicide Attacks ---

Similar - attacker is easily arrested and imprisoned, or hospitalized

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• *Ideologically Driven
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• *Police
• *Schools

*Ideologically Driven

Most attacks by terrorists are driven by ideology. Can this explain any of the non-political suicide attacks on malls, schools, restaurants, movie theaters, motorists, pedestrians and military bases seen in the US which are generally blamed on mental illness?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/hillary_and_the_face_of_terror.html

 if you research where most of the terrorist attacks/suicide bombings have taken place, and more importantly who perpetrated them since 9/11, you will find one common thread that is impossible to ignore:  the vast majority of suicide bombings/terrorist attacks are carried out in areas controlled by individuals and groups steeped in Sunni Salafiyyah Jihadi culture, or Shiite Apocalyptic Jihadi culture, or carried out by the same individuals and groups outside those areas, such as the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya last year. 

This is not to imply that only Islamic Jihadi groups carry out suicide attacks or terrorist attacks, or that the concept of suicide attacks originated from within Islam, or even from Islamic Jihadi groups or associated movements in the past.  Recent historical suicide attacks, such as the Kamikaze pilots of Japan, and some instances of German suicide tactics, were certainly not Islamic in nature.  In fact, suicide attacks as a modern political weapon can be directly traced back to the assassination of Russian Czar Alexander II in 1881, when he was killed while riding in his carriage by a suicide bomber who was part of a Nihilist plot.  Prior to that, there are recorded instances of suicide attacks among  Dutch soldiers in Taiwan in the 1660’s and even among the Templar Knights fighting Saladin’s forces during the Crusades.  Some even argue that the first recorded instance of a “suicide attack” in warfare is that of Sampson collapsing the Philistine temple upon himself and his enemies as mentioned in the Bible.

But regardless of the past history of suicide attacks/terrorism, and more recently, suicide bombings, there is no doubt that for now at least, the overwhelming face of terrorism/suicide attacks and bombings is the Islamic Jihadi culture.  And they are not doing it because of “poverty’ and “social injustice.” They are doing it because they are theologically driven.  To maintain otherwise, is to suffer from “category error”, willful blindness, and terminal stupidity, or to driven by a desire to commit societal suicide.