I read a very funny article in Donald Luskin's Chronicle of the Conspiracy website. The original article was published in Psychology Today, and it's even funnier.Here's an excerpt.
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...
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.
One reader suggests that, based on this, there is a simple outsourcing solution to the war in Iraq. Let's just airdrop a couple hundred thousand of these little items [warning: link contains sexually explicit material].Update... Reader Adam Allouba says,
You're mistaken in assuming that suicide bombers are always Muslims. The number one perpetrator of suicide bombings is the Tamil Tigers, who are radical Sri Lankan Marxist-Leninists. Robert Pape's research backs this up. Here's the link.
Iranian Afterschool Special: How to Be a Suicide Bomber! Posted Nov 03, 2005
Suicide Bombing: The new extra-curricular activity.
