Murphy interviewed researcher Robert A. Pape, who says:
"Suicide terrorism is not so much committed by religious fanatics looking for a quick trip to paradise as it is by a variety of secular and religious individuals who fear that their societies will be unalterably transformed by a religiously motivated occupier."Hmmm...does this mean that the Islamic countries should expect Dutch, French, and British suicide bombers?
In any case, it is a counterpoint to Nasra Hassan's article on the religiously motivated bombers. Bombers, however, are not the leaders. It would be interesting to have a better handle on their motivations, tho my impression is that the religious and secular motivations are deeply intertwined: they abhor Westerners in Muslim countries and Westernisation in general, hated having American troops in Saudi Arabia, and want to kick us all out , but only as a step in the process of establishing a world-wide Islamist state.
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