"Dying to win: why suicide terrorists do it," Robert A. Pape openDemocracy - o... - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Aug 06
  

  tony curzon price

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  • Second, democratic states are uniquely vulnerable to suicide terrorists.

    • is democracy more susceptible to this sort of pressure than others? the moral state can be morally blackmailed?
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  • Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Religion is rarely the root cause, although it is often used as a tool by terrorist organizations in recruiting and in other efforts in service of the broader strategic objective.

    • suicide terrorist goals are basically territorial

    • terrorists or territorialists?
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    • • Faisal Devji writes: "The diversity of al-Qaida’s soldiers is illustrated by their practices, which run the gamut from praying in mosques to drinking in bars. Their religious beliefs, too, are individualistic, drawing from the whole range of the Islamic tradition, especially its mystical and heretical forms. Unlike fundamentalism, in other words, which makes use of Islam’s juridical tradition for the building of an ideological state, al-Qaida’s ostensibly Sunni minions turn to its Sufi and Shi’a forms, particularly in their espousal of practices such as martyrdom operations. Indeed their conception of holy war as a moral duty derives from the mystical tradition: Sufis having led all the great jihad movements from the 18th to the 20th centuries."
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  • each country has been a democracy at the time of the incidents.

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  tony curzon price on 2006-08-22
  is democracy more susceptible to this sort of pressure than others? the moral state can be morally blackmailed?
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  SarahL on 2006-08-22
  Faisal Devji writes: "The diversity of al-Qaida’s soldiers is illustrated by their practices, which run the gamut from praying in mosques to drinking in bars. Their religious beliefs, too, are individualistic, drawing from the whole range of the Islamic tradition, especially its mystical and heretical forms. Unlike fundamentalism, in other words, which makes use of Islam’s juridical tradition for the building of an ideological state, al-Qaida’s ostensibly Sunni minions turn to its Sufi and Shi’a forms, particularly in their espousal of practices such as martyrdom operations. Indeed their conception of holy war as a moral duty derives from the mystical tradition: Sufis having led all the great jihad movements from the 18th to the 20th centuries."
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  tony curzon price on 2006-08-22
  terrorists or territorialists?
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  tony curzon price on 2006-08-22
  suicide terrorist goals are basically territorial

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  tony curzon price on 2006-08-22
  causes of suicide terrorism are illegitimate occuaption
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  SarahL on 2006-08-22
  See Faisal Devji: "The global jihad has no coherent vision for the future and thus no plan of action to bring it about. Its acolytes possess no ideological or doctrinal unity, coming together only in the execution of specific operations, perhaps for very different reasons. They hail from the most diverse backgrounds and each fights his jihad in the most individual of ways. They are neither recruited nor indoctrinated into al-Qaida but simply franchise the skills and connections it makes available."
  
  http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/jihad_2768.jsp

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