Iran now boasts a 40,000 strong army of suicide bombers, is it because they really believe that to murder infidels is certain passage to heaven or is it because they are all clinically depressed?\n\nMaybe both.
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Most of time suicide bombers are those who have lost much in their life,relatives, house etc as a result of unjust actions of others. They are not going to check religious scriptures to find the appropriate action that they have to take. Their action are as result of frustruation than islam. Civillians should never be attacked but I don't see any difference in bombing civilian houses from planes and helicopters and what suicide bombers are doing. They both kill innocents. I would contempt both types of terrorism. \n\nSuicide and suicide bombing is going against Islam because your own hand are responsible for your death. Quran Says\n"cast not yourselves to perdition with your own hands;" 2:195.\nIn the case of suicide bombing there is also extra sin of killing innocents. \n\nThere are minority Islamic groups that supports suicide bombing and these victims of injustice gets attracted to these groups.
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I am not going to answer about the 9 year old wife of the prophet Mohamed because I know nothing about it. Instead I would like to direct my opinion to AIRASAE. \n\nAirasae, this is an open public discussion and anything can be expected out of it except lewd and foul contents. Nobody is trashing or crushing anybody. If one man's truth can not be your truth just give them logical answers instead of paranoia. If some disturbing questions would rise up against Islam, every muslim would say that Islam is being crushed. Have you ever noticed the countless time Christianity have been crushed with words, thoughts and bombs. But what comes into our minds would often seek the answers to a belief different from ours. \n\nThey say Islam is a religion of peace, but look around you. Bombs here, bombs there and bombs everywhere not even the third world was spared. If western cable companies report what transpires in the muslim world, you say that they do biased reporting. Do you think respectable, world class cable TV stations stay a long time if the world will know that they are trying to do false reporting? They will be out of business in no time. \n\nIf Islam is really a religion of peace truth will surely come out and no one can ever stop it. So, why so worried, be paranoid and overprotective when you can't do anything about it because people have eyes to see, ears to hear and brains to analyze and finally decide. \n\nIf I were a muslim, the first thing I would do is to really try to understand why innocent people including women and children are being targeted. This is not Jihad, this is a crime against humanity. Just imagine the whole muslim world went crazy over a cartoon made by one dumb christian and yet nobody gets crazy over what suicide bombers are doing. How Ironic can it be?   \n\nIf christians would bomb public places with no exactly logical target but innocent people, I would voice out a loud cry to go against those who perpetrates such crime because it simply is not acceptable. I will protest against my fellow christian suicide bombers until my people will get the message and join the protest because to me they are not freedom fighters but mere criminals. Do you see why we don't have such martyrs? It is because to us they will never be martyrs nor freedom fighters nor jihad fighters because to the Christian world, it will always be a heinous crime if they will kill muslims that way and every christian soul knows that.\n\n\nTO BEYOND EVENT\n\nShould I believe because you said so? Read between the lines. If ever it really happened because you said so, then you have first hand knowledge not me. If you are a muslim, educate me for being so naive. Collateral damage was coined in the 20th century and made popular by Mr. Schwartzenegger and it was a nice movie. I just wonder what they call it during Napoleon's time.
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As I understand it islam states that the 'infidel' shall meet their fate at the hands of allah after death. The encouragement of violence towards them is a relatively recent thing created by extremist elements who have broken away from true islam. If islam is correct, then it is these extremists who will be judged most harshly by their god for choosing not to disbelieve, but to change the teachings of the koran to suit their own twisted desires.
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No...It is not the same thing!  They are not committing suicide for their country...they are committing suicide for their religion - not country! Americans who die for their country are making that sacrifice to defend the liberty and freedom that our nation and its people hold dear. A muslim commits suicide to instill fear and to kill and maim innocent men, women and children on purpose. There is a definite difference. They claim "death to the infidel". Do you know who an infidel is? It is anyone who does not bow the knee to allah...they are an infidel. They will even kill there own people to espose their view and impose their will. According to their own teachings...an infidel is not worthy to breathe the air that allah has provided. There is a difference and you'd better know it. It's not the same thing. There will come a day when it will matter. Don't believe the hype...our greatest threat is radical Islam.
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Hizbullah is Iran's secretly (not really so secret) funded army. And I am not surprised at this attempt. If we continue to demonstrate that we have the stones to stick this fight through to the finish, they will lose ground. They (Iran and Syria) are known for their double-speak, loudly and globally proclaiming how America is bullying the middle east, yet at home and speaking to their citizens declaring a terrorist war on ALL of the western civilisations. No surprises here.
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The radicals driven by religion because of promises of 72 virgins in heaven for waging Jihad against the west has affected us more than we think.\n\nThe HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars spent on the war alone plus substancial millitary budgets have taken so much money away from other areas that need that money such as welfare, education, infrastructure.. and the list goes on.\n\nUnfortunately the terrorists in the middle east want to kill anyone who isn't a Muslim, and even if they are they'll kill you for being in the United States if you are not involved in such splinter cells.... Lukily they do not have that capability...yet.\n\nI hope this answers your question!
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Dude (and I mean dude), you are clearly brighter than most of the folks on here.  Or at the very least, way more informed.  \n\nI can tell you tough, that proding any of the soldiers of any of the Middle Eastern religons here on Yahoo!Answers is only satisfying for a day or so, and then it gets very very depressing.  \n\nSo unless you're doing research or something, it's much nicer to pretend these people don't really exist.
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They have been at civil war in the middle east on some level, since before recorded history. It is their way of life. They teach their children to butcher people. They have killed each other with sticks, spears, machine guns, and bombs. If Iran has its way, they will soon be killing with the atom!
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There is nothing in the Koran nor mainstream doctrines of Islam that supports or condones any terrorist acts.  Suicide bombers are merely weak-minded pawns of manipulative people who use an Islam-esque facade to mask their own twisted agendas.  To associate Islam with such acts would be similar to associating mainstream Christianity with nut-jobs like David Koresh or associating Americans with Ted Bundy.
62219
islam as a religion isnt the problem.radical extremist have hi-jacked a country and its people! slowly but surely neighboring countries have been handled the same way.I just want to clear up a misconception about suicide bombers.It isnt always suicide, when your family is held randsom and the only way to insure their safe release is to blow yourself up, come on,I would do the same. I am a democrat and not a huge Bush fan but we cannot stop trying to weed out the evil regimes. On this, I know it is the only way to give the gift of freedom that Americans and many other countries are born with and take for granted. breaking down walls and making sure that free trade and more than one ideology is the only solution.
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It is not simply the cartoons that started this violence.  Sure, they were the flashpoint, but this has been building up for years.  Radical muslims hate the western world.  They hate the free speech.  We are two different cultures, and it will be interesting how this will play out.\nI personally think that normal, honest, good natured Muslims, of which 99 percent of Muslims are, should begin to do something about their radical 1 percent brothers.  It's getting old to keep saying "Those are just the extremists that are beheading and bombing."  Well show some damn remorse when it happens, and then teach or kill, whichever the radicals respond to.\nSide note:  Prez Ahmadinejad of Iran blames the Jews for the cartoons.  "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the caricatures showed the "impudence and rudeness" of Western newspapers against the prophet as well as the "maximum resentment of the Zionists (Jews) ruling these countries against Islam and Muslims."  Yup, and the Holocaust didn't happen.
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They want a bomb.  Period.  When oil is plentiful and cheap, why spend all that money on a nuclear reactor for electricity?\n\nThey want a nuclear weapon.  My guess is that they would pass it along to some terrorist organization (Hamas) to detonate in Israel.  This way, they could deny involvement.  Iran hates Israel, despite it's significant Muslim population, but they know they can't formally declare war, because they would get blamed, then they would get beaten up bad.\n\nSo Tehran instead plays around, giving money and arms to terrorist groups to act as some sort of play army.  This way they can attack without being blamed.\n\nAfter Israel, I would worry next about New York and Los Angeles.  Both are major cities, with significant Jewish populations.  Again, Iran doesn't care about either cities Islam populations (which are also sizable).  Killing ten Muslims for one Jew is fine by them.\n\nBy the way, I reference their government here, not individuals, particularly those in the USA for more than 25 years.  Iran has an opposition movement, with many supporters fleeing to the US and Europe after the Shah's government collapsed in the late 70's.
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Sorry mate, but you're quoting a humbug here. No such verse exists in the Koran\n\nA quite separate question is why so many muslims support homicidal maniacs who are de facto heretics to Islam. But that one is smething that they will have to answer- either in this world or the next.
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A branch of Islamic is Muslim, and it's the Muslims that are doing all the stuff in the Middle East. The suiside bombings and stuff like that. I'm not sure if this guy is a Muslim, but the president of Iran wants Isreal blown off of the map. Let's just say that we better not give this guy any uranium!
591953
This is an awesome question. I see what you mean by the tactics. Iran is surrounded. I think it may have been just dumb luck though.
185510
I assume you're being kind. The Iranian leadership represents the worst aspects of ANY government's international policy in recent memory - and I'm an old geezer. Anyone can (rationally) oppose the anti-palestinian policies of the Israeli right-wing, but the madness coming out of Ahmadinejad's mouth is alarming REGARDLESS of where you find youself on the issue.\n\nResponsible Muslims I know further understand that those policies can easily lead to a conflagration in which the only sure losers will be Muslims, the vast majority of whom do not wish to be the designated martyrs of these zealots.\n\nThank you from bringing up the question.
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Because people hate when you compare them to evil people in the past. The only difference is the 60 year gap. People also like to have an identifiable "enemy". Saying "suicide bombers" or "extremists" isn't enough. Even though the vast majority of Muslims are as shocked by the bombings as anyone else. Notably, most of the innocent victims are also Muslim.