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Part of US Media-Bias in the Israel/Palestine Conflict documentary.Well to no ones surprise the documentary is gone now on YouTube. Here is another excerpt on YouTube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWlRwSkZBA
"A would-be suicide bomber hid three times in an ambulance in a bid to get past Israeli troops...He then joined forces with a 40yr old woman, mother of three, who strapped a bomb to her chest and accompanied him on a taxi ride."
One can only imagine how they threatened this woman to get her to strap a bomb to her chest.
Here's more:
Arabs using an UN Ambulance for Terrorism
14 year old Suicide Bomber
Red-cross ambulance carrys a suicide bomber belt
Oh wait, maybe people treated SO horribly and her life was such hell and she got shot at daily, and straved, and harassed.. Maybe it didn't make much difference anymore. Nah, it could never be Israel's fault. They are the Chosen people.
Here's an excerpt of an article written by Nasra Hassan, a Pakistani Muslim:
SINCE 1982, I have been an international relief worker. In 1996 I was posted to the Gaza Strip during one of the most vicious cycles of suicide bombings. To understand why certain young men voluntarily blow themselves up in the name of Islam, I began, without official sponsorship, to research their backgrounds and the beliefs that had led them to such extreme tactics.
From 1996 to 1999, I interviewed nearly 250 people involved in the most militant camps of the Palestinian cause: volunteers who, like S, had been unable to complete their suicide missions, the families of dead bombers, and the men who trained them.
None of the suicide bombers — they ranged in age from 18 to 38 — conformed to the typical profile of the suicidal personality. None of them was uneducated, desperately poor, simple-minded, or depressed. Many were middle-class and held paying jobs. Two were the sons of millionaires. They all seemed entirely normal members of their families. They were polite and serious, and in their communities were considered to be model youths. Most were bearded. All were deeply religious.
The bomber’s family and the sponsoring organisation celebrate his martyrdom with festivities, as if it were a wedding. Hundreds of guests congregate at the house to offer congratulations. The hosts serve the juices and sweets that the young man specified in his will. Often, the mother will ululate in joy over the honour that Allah has bestowed upon her family.
Read the full article here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1692606,00.html
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/11/what_really_motivates_suicide_bombers.html
Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, who has conducted the most in-depth research into the motivations of suicide bombers argues that the Martydom explanation of suicide bombing is totally wrong.
His main conclusion is that suicide bombing is less about religious fundamentalism than secular or political grievances:
"There's a faulty premise in the current strategy on the war on terrorism. That faulty premise is that suicide terrorism and al- Qaida suicide terrorism in particular is mainly driven by an evil ideology Islamic fundamentalism independent of other circumstances.
However, the facts are that since 1980, suicide terrorist attacks from around the world over half have been secular. What over 95% of suicide attacks around the world [are about] is not religion, but a specific strategic purpose - to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly and this is, in fact, a centrepiece of al-Qaida's strategic logic, which is to compel the United States and western countries to abandon military commitments on the Arabian peninsula."
Those who oppose Palestine, and support America's presence in the Middle East like to paint a picture of crazy religious fanatics who are motivated solely by religion - this way they can condemn their actions off-hand while ignoring their true motivations.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hagel-Tells-it-Like-it-Is
Finally an American senator speaks the truth - about Iraq, the suppression of the Palestinians and the real motivation for acts of terrorism by so called Muslim extremists.
In reply to your comment:
“So what if she's an aid worker. You dont need to be an expert in Islam and palestinian law to know whether people are wealthy, depressed, suffering and so on. In fact an aid worker would probably be more reliable than an "expert" on palestinian law and islam.
I agree with you that theres no reward in Islamic law for blowing up people but that is what they are taught.
Here see this video:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Teaching-Children-To-Become-Martyrs-An-Aid-Worker-Speaks
Uh-huh.
Ever heard of the phrase "Allahu Ackbar"? "God is great". It has a lot to with religion, and culture. Radical Islam is enstilling a certain mentality in Muslims, and they justify it by the supposed injustices caused by the the West and the Jews. I'm not talking about the peaceful aspects most Muslims adopt, but radical Islam. While some might be motivated solely by political reasons, most Islamic martyrs are generally culturally religious.
Am Muslim and you don't see me blowing up my fellow peers in America. Why don't you see what the American Association for Muslims says about the issue at their website. They must be pretty relevant since there are close to 6 million in America.
You are, however, going to have a pretty hard time convincing me that the religion is looking for people to become martyrs and that the current tensions just provide a good excuse for making it happen.