Why most suicide bombers are Muslim

Gettin' In Tune · 07-28-2007, 03:27 PM

I thought that this was an interesting theory...

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By:Alan S. Miller Ph.D., Satoshi Kanazawa Ph.D.

Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is that it tolerates polygyny. By allowing some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities, polygyny creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other 50 percent don't get any wives at all.

So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status. It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates. By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives. Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region.

However, polygyny itself is not a sufficient cause of suicide bombing. Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa. And they do have very high levels of violence. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a long history of continuous civil wars—but not suicide bombings.

The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam. The prospect of exclusive access to virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even one mate on earth, which strict monogamy virtually guarantees. However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.

It is the combination of polygyny and the promise of a large harem of virgins in heaven that motivates many young Muslim men to commit suicide bombings. Consistent with this explanation, all studies of suicide bombers indicate that they are significantly younger than not only the Muslim population in general but other (nonsuicidal) members of their own extreme political organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. And nearly all suicide bombers are single.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/artic...622-000002.xml

So it may turn out that they just need to get laid...

sisterX · 07-28-2007, 03:44 PM

Is this guy for real? I wish he would state 2 lines in the quran that allow suicide bombing! Suicide is prohibited in islam, and so is the killling of innocent people. I think it is usually those less educated about islam who get 'radicalized'. Many of them have wives and children. The 72 virgins are for those who fight in battle and get killed not those who kill themselves nor those who kill innocent people.

Gettin' In Tune · 07-28-2007, 07:02 PM

It is just a theory that tries to answer the question why most suicide bombers are Muslims. Every religion has their lunatics, but most do not have suicide bombers.

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Originally Posted by sisterX

I think it is usually those less educated about islam who get 'radicalized'. Many of them have wives and children. The 72 virgins are for those who fight in battle and get killed not those who kill themselves nor those who kill innocent people.

You are probably right about those less educated about islam (and other religions). It is the people who blindly accept the word of "god/allah" and take that word literal and to the extreme that causes a lot of damage.

**The An-Jel** · 07-28-2007, 10:42 PM

Probably right about the more educated of the Islam's too.

SissyX you sure you don't want to be a Christian?

sisterX · 07-29-2007, 12:09 AM

No, i'm quite content with islam. Whatever gave you the impression i want to be christian?

Gettin' In Tune · 07-29-2007, 12:25 AM

There needs to be an explanation of why suicide bombers are mainly Muslim.

I think this is an interesting theory in explaining that question.

xenu · 08-07-2007, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sisterX

\I wish he would state 2 lines in the quran that allow suicide bombing! Suicide is prohibited in islam, and so is the killling of innocent people.

First of all, they are not considered "suicide bombers". They are considered martyrs. To muslims (true muslims) there is a war waging now because the christian west is trying to conquer the muslim countries through military and economic might (US-Iraq, US and military bases in the gulf, US and European capitalist goods in muslim countries, the media that they can n longer censor and control...). Palestinians also consider that their land is occupied by what they think is the worst group of people on earth: the jews(the maghdoub aliyhim. koran[1:6]).

Such operations are therefore sanctioned by the koran. And I'm sure that you can find several verses oulining how important it is to die in the name of god.

Probability_Amplitude · 08-20-2007, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Gettin' In Tune

There needs to be an explanation of why suicide bombers are mainly Muslim.

I think that's a pretty ahistorical statement to make.

LadyLuck · 08-20-2007, 10:14 PM

OH MY! I read this article, it was in 'Psychology Today'! The entire article was basically about how everything in the world is driven by men and their need for sex. It was an interesting read, I recommend it! I don't believe the article was intended to offend Islam, i think it was merely an attempt to logically explain the tendencies of society.

Geshtinnanna · 08-20-2007, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Gettin' In Tune

There needs to be an explanation of why suicide bombers are mainly Muslim.

I think this is an interesting theory in explaining that question.

have you not cracked a history book? It's just the REDS of today or the chinks of yesterday or the ******s of the 60s. Getting the point?

my word was starred out. It was the non pc of negro