“Dying to win: why suicide terrorists do it,” Robert A. Pape ...
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- Tonycurzonprice on 2006-08-22 - Tags terrorism
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suicide terrorist goals are basically territorial
on 2006-08-22 by tonycurzonprice
terrorists or territorialists?
on 2006-08-22 by sarahl
Faisal Devji writes: "The diversity of al-Qaida’s soldiers is illustrated by their practices, which run the gamut from praying in mosques to drinking in bars. Their religious beliefs, too, are individualistic, drawing from the whole range of the Islamic tradition, especially its mystical and heretical forms. Unlike fundamentalism, in other words, which makes use of Islam’s juridical tradition for the building of an ideological state, al-Qaida’s ostensibly Sunni minions turn to its Sufi and Shi’a forms, particularly in their espousal of practices such as martyrdom operations. Indeed their conception of holy war as a moral duty derives from the mystical tradition: Sufis having led all the great jihad movements from the 18th to the 20th centuries."
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is democracy more susceptible to this sort of pressure than others? the moral state can be morally blackmailed?
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on 2006-08-22 by sarahl