THE 'MARTYRDOM' OF SUICIDE BOMBERS

AlQaeda's use of commercial passenger jet airliners as makeshift firebombs in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 certainly had the same impact as a missile strike, prompting a retaliatory 'war on terror' by the US that has made the Islamist 'martyr' a ubiquitous co...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Contemporary Review 2010, Vol.292 (1696), p.101
Main Author: Karwowski, Michael
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bin Laden, Osama
Ideology
Khomeini, Ruhollah (Ayatollah)
Politics
Religion
Suicide bombings
Terrorism
Violence
War
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:AlQaeda's use of commercial passenger jet airliners as makeshift firebombs in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 certainly had the same impact as a missile strike, prompting a retaliatory 'war on terror' by the US that has made the Islamist 'martyr' a ubiquitous contemporary fact. In this respect, supporting both Islamic reformists and scholars in their attempts to discredit al-Qaeda and similar organisations and working to separate the political motives underlying national or regional conflicts from the religious ideology that has been allowed to confuse rather than clarify the issues may prove itself infinitely more important in the long term than tallying the body count of any war against terrorists.
ISSN:0010-7565