Suicide bombing in the Middle East: Is it really motivated by religion?

Suicide bombing in the Middle East: Is it really motivated by religion?

 

A bomb vest
A suicide bomb vest
(Wikimedia Commons)
Contrary to common assumptions, suicide bombing has no intrinsic connection to Islam, nor even to religion generally.

 

“No atheist that I know,” an atheist commentator on my blog writes, “would blow himself up in a crowded marketplace for some blithering nonsense about an afterlife.”

 

Atheist, meet facts:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865632373/Is-suicide-bombing-in-the-Middle-East-really-motivated-by-religion.html?pg=all

 

 


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