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| artiel |
This is one part of an article posted here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...0622-000002.xml
Interesting stuff
#4 Most suicide bombers are Muslim
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. |
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| Oz |
| works for me - to blow yourself up and take others out is a clear act of desperation - I don't see why this couldn't be some sort of contributing factor - that said, it is so high level that a little more detail might make me happy |
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| DUDE-HERE |
| so asswipe whats the solution |
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| Oz |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
so asswipe whats the solution |
pardon? |
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| Oz |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
so asswipe whats the solution |
are you talking about this thing?
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| artiel |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
so asswipe whats the solution |
The solution, as with everything cannot be dumbed down into 10 second sound bytes like your boy Oreilly, Limbaugh and Hannity put forth to the simple-minded masses.
The solution is a complicated web of policy, diplomacy and understanding with force as a last resort and communication as the center of the web. It's hard work. This is how the cold war ended, not through bombing Russia. It is frustrating, demoralizing and sometimes even seem impossible, but the alternative is no alternative at all. We ended a multi-decade confrontation without a shot even being fired simply through dialogue.
This problem IS tough, no doubt. But we can try to solve it for 40 years in the way that Israelis and Palestinians have tried to solve their problems, or we can try to solve it for 40 years the way that we and the Russians did. |
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| Halcyon |
| Stonewall would like to say that we should live our lives in fear of these people, but not do anything about it. |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by Oz
pardon? |
its rhetorical |
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| Oz |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
its rhetorical |
how's your lunch break goin? |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by artiel
The solution, as with everything cannot be dumbed down into 10 second sound bytes like your boy Oreilly, Limbaugh and Hannity put forth to the simple-minded masses.
The solution is a complicated web of policy, diplomacy and understanding with force as a last resort and communication as the center of the web. It's hard work. This is how the cold war ended, not through bombing Russia. It is frustrating, demoralizing and sometimes even seem impossible, but the alternative is no alternative at all. We ended a multi-decade confrontation without a shot even being fired simply through dialogue.
This problem IS tough, no doubt. But we can try to solve it for 40 years in the way that Israelis and Palestinians have tried to solve their problems, or we can try to solve it for 40 years the way that we and the Russians did. |
russians went broke...teh middle east is broke to a large extent as far as wealth being in few hands as it is ...plus they have religion to keep em going where russia has religion like we have it. arab muslims are not rational |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by Oz
how's your lunch break goin? |
i don't do lunch for 2 more hours |
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| artiel |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
russians went broke...teh middle east is broke to a large extent as far as wealth being in few hands as it is ...plus they have religion to keep em going where russia has religion like we have it. arab muslims are not rational |
....... sometimes I wonder if maybe you're just the smartest person in the world and all the rest of us are idiots... you know, like how whenever Einstein would say something everyone would go "What the fuck is that idiot talking about?"
Probably not though. |
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| Halcyon |
Quote: Originally posted by artiel
....... sometimes I wonder if maybe you're just the smartest person in the world and all the rest of us are idiots... you know, like how whenever Einstein would say something everyone would go "What the fuck is that idiot talking about?"
Probably not though. |
I have never wondered that once, EVER, in regards to DUDE-HERE. |
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| Reverend Tyler |
| the answer is more porn |
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| artiel |
Quote: Originally posted by Reverend Tyler
the answer is more porn |
The answer is more porn, more strippers, more prostitutes and an open outlook toward gayness.
That would pretty much take care of the problem. |
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| rod_jammer |
| If too many mateless males were the problem, then China would have a shitload of suicide bombers, since the one child policy has created an over-abundance of boys. The WSJ had an interesting article yesterday from a study by Cambridge econ. prof. discussing that, counter to conventional wisdom, almost all suicide bombers are educated and do not grow up poor (ie they are not driving to committing terrorist acts due to lack of opportunities). Terror grows out of a lack of civil and political liberties, which is why we need to become energy independent and stop support corrupt dictators in Egypt and Saudi Arabia IMHO. |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by artiel
....... sometimes I wonder if maybe you're just the smartest person in the world and all the rest of us are idiots... you know, like how whenever Einstein would say something everyone would go "What the fuck is that idiot talking about?"
Probably not though. |
actually ..athst pretty true..you are all a bunch of idiots |
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| kali |
while i think this is an interesting idea, i'd like to point out that some of the criminals who flew the planes into WTC and the PEntagon and PA were married
plus, REAL Musilims don;t believe in violence |
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