A disturbing question, Do you think suicide bombings will make it to the Western World?
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Others have pointed out that it has happened here, but I don't think that's what Prof meant.  I think he meant the type of bomber that runs in explosives exposed and goes boom.\n\nThat being said, I'd like to believe that it would never happen in the USA (which is where I am from), but then again I didn't think 9/11 could ever happen and it did.  I didn't think Columbine (A massive school shooting not far from where I was during High School) would ever happen but it did (And I know that it's a semi-regular event in other parts of the country, for some reason Columbine made big news though).  So I'd like to say it would never happen, but odds are it can and will at some point.\n\nI think 9/11 made the USA realize that we aren't invincible.  I never thought we were, but I feel the mortality much more now.
323350
Becoming a suicide Bomber and Blowing yourself up is not Peaceful.  How do you label the suicide Bombers?  Muslims?\nArabs? Middle-Easteners? Sex Hungry for 72 Virgins?
838372
That is one of the joys of Islam.  I won't  go there, if that makes you feel any better. Have you ever noticed that the terrorists NEVER do a bombing in places like that?  Hmmm? Do you think there is a connection?  Don't do anything that will get you into trouble. God bless.
171999
That's exactly what will happen to the idiots who become suicide bombers. \n\nThey'll be condemned to be  surrounded by 72 sexy and provocative women who will remain virgins forever, and they'll be sexually frustrated forever. The only minor detail is that this won't happen in heaven, but in the Place Below!
479608
It is probably not likely. I say this because of the countries it surrounds, but it still is possible. They have been to the UAE before, which is near some dangerous countries for Americans.
261546
My husband thinks it might; his favorite expression is "just drop the bomb on them." In the sense that nobody would ever again doubt that the US is the biggest, meanest dog on the block, perhaps a facsimilie of world peace might result if we blow the Middle East sky high. It would be the peace of fear, though, the modern day equivalent to Pax Romana. And, as with the fastest gun in the West, there's always somebody aiming at you from behind. I don't think nuking the Middle East is really the answer, but it's a tempting thought.
704856
Only if you deliver them.  By hand.  And let us remote-detonate them...oops, my hand slipped...and you were only halfway across the Atlantic...oh, well, Merry Christmas!\nSeriously: you are mentally disturbed.  Killing children is horrible, no matter what country they're from.  Grow up.
627630
Get rid of your suicide bombers and we'll talk. Will you do business with Jews?
955120
Its very well possible. Remeber people are willing to kill in the name of Allah and will get an promtion in heaven with an orgy and virgins.
143493
Yes, it is more then possible that World War III could be coming. It is not as close as you think. Muslims around the world are angry at the European Nations whos free press printed the caricatures. Many of those European Nation's have high muslim minority populations. Their Governments must decide between a free press or respect of Qu'ran law which states that Muhammad is never to be depicted. The Third World War will no doubt be religiously related with Russia and China on the side of the extreme muslims.
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The west is already at war with a small segment of Islam. The question is, will Islam go to war with itself and extinguish the radical element, or will mainstream Islam join the radicals.\n\nPeople should recognize that huge percentages of muslims are non practicing and don't even go to mosque. This is especially true in Europe where some estimates show 80% of the muslim population not really formally participating.
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You're absolutely right. Send all of them to the United States of America, which prescribes electrocution, gassing, hanging, injection with lethal drugs and execution by firing squad. The USA also permits the public (through the camera lens of the media) to witness these events.\n\nWhat do I feel? You've really got to ask?
478879
Yes if they continue with what they are doing and produce a bomb then it will be a World War but a very short one. With every nuclear nation hitting them at the same time. They will end up being a glowing hole in the ground.
500823
Absolutely. It will play havoc in the Middle East. TDhey WILL USE IT against Israel for sure and then bombs will be flying everywhere
770530
Thanks for acknowledging the 89 Australians who died in Bali (the largest number who died).  We shouldn't also forget al-Qaeda's first foreign victims - the 200+ Kenyans and Tanzanians who died in the Nairobi/Dar-es-Salaam US embassy bombings in 1998.  The War on Terror also includes Phillippinos, Spaniards, Russians, Iraqis, Indians, Israelis, Turks and others as victims of al-Qaeda terror, plus moderate Muslims who get in their way by wanting to live in a country where religion isn't thrust down their throats.\n\nHowever, the point that should be raised is al-Qaeda sees very little difference between people in the West.  People in their eyes are divided by religion (kaffir or Muslim - and in their eyes, only the Wahabist sect is the right interpretation of Islam). \n\nIt might be a bit jarring if the death toll of compatriots are listed next to a flag of Old Glory, but there are far worse things to be angry about.
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Wow, what a big question.\n\nSometimes a country is forced into military action and something will get bombed, or shelled or attacked by other means.\n\nUsually the target will be military, but unfortunately the myth of smart bombs which drop from 40,000 feet onto a silver dollar is not true. Bombs and bullets often miss their targets and kill innocent civilians. Tragic but inevitable.\n\nThe government of your country however, as your representatives, do not go out deliberately to kill civilians for a number of reasons;\n\nThere is no point\nIt is counter productive in terms of propaganda\nIts expensive\n\nTerrorists on the other hand do not have the means, the support or very often the guts to attack military installations or other countries in the usual sense, so they sneak around blowing innocent civilians up deliberately.\n\nIf you look at the IRA they used to blow up shopping centres and pubs full of ordinary women, children and young people up - DELIBERATELY\n\nIf you look at ETA in Spain, they continue to blow up holiday resorts where ordinary fmailies from all over the world are relaxing on the beach. - DELIBERATELY\n\nHamas and all the other looneys in the middle east blow people up on buses to the shops, inculding school buses - DELIBERATELY  \n\n911 - Hijackers looked air stewardesses in the eye as they slit their throats with packaging knives, and looked a small girl in the face as they flew the plane on which she was a passenger into the World Trade center. They probably sat opposite her in the departure lounge and smiled at her as she played with her mother, knowing that they were going to kill her - DELIBERATELY  \n\n7/7 The Tube bombers sat amongst commuters in London and looked their victims (all sexes, religions and races) in the eye knowing that they were going to blow them into chopped liver.- DELIBERATLEY\n\nYou personally are a legitamate target for a terrorist. Doesn't matter what you believe, what colour you are, what religion you are, who you support or what your politcal beliefs are.\n\nYou are a target because one day you may be on the bus or train, or in the bar, where they have decided to leave the bomb. \n\nThat is the difference.
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In their fight to create the nation of Israel zionists participated in actions against Great Britain that were they to happen today would have been considered terrorism.  The same could be said of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Civil War.  \n\nI realize that doesn't strictly answer your question.    Here is a reference that should be useful:\nHonor and Martyrdom: Suicide Bombing Isn't as New or Alien as Westerners Imagine\n"The rate of suicide bombings - the seemingly endless supply of people prepared to blow themselves up - leaves a western audience utterly bewildered. What kind of psychology motivates people to such violent extremes? The incomprehension prompts revulsion that this form of warfare is historically unprecedented and reveals a peculiar, aberrant irrationality - a kind of inhuman madness. All too quickly, Islam is blamed for deluding its believers into martyrdom with promises of 72 virgins; the old prejudices about Islam as a faith uniquely associated with violence and unquestioning belief are fanned into life again.\n\nBut such prejudices won't get us very far in trying to unpick which elements of this violent phenomenon are in fact unprecedented and which are not - or to understand why the strategy has been adopted."