Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin: The Banality of Suicide Terrorism
3. September 2010 - 5:23 PM UhrIslamic Suicide Bombers are Momma’s Boys
By Felix Struening, English translation: Dr. David van Dyke
There have been many attempts to explain the phenomenon of the Islamic suicide assassin: theological, sociological, economical and psychological. Most of the definitions can explain certain patterns in the behavior of terrorists in Israel and the Palestinian territories, for example, but they fail suddenly in the face of others such as the death pilots of September 11, 2001.