People don't blow tghemselves up for politics. They do it because they believe they will be rewarded in the after life. Sure that's is what they sucker these guys with but when they blow themselves up it is over a political reason, occupation, militancy ultimately. It is being done, 'to sacrafice for the establishment of the islamic theocracy.'
Multi millionaire Osama bin Laden didn't risk his life and fortune for politics. Sure he did. First to get rid of the Russian occupation, then the supposed American infidel on Saudi land, and on and on...Just because he wraps himself up in religious rhetoric doesn't make it non-political.
The 19 hijackers who were educated, and well off financially, and had plenty of time to back out of the attack didn't kill themselves for politics. Really, according to OBL, "Admitting for the first time that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden said he did so because of injustices against the Lebanese and Palestinians by Israel and the United States." (http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1144711.html) That sounds pretty darn political to me.
When they die they die saying Allah Akbar. God is great. And again, there in is the rub for the western world. It is not so much that they say it as the meaning behind it, which is the establishment of an islamic world ruled politically by islamic law.
And thereby it demonstrates the issue at hand with the western world. We have been so indoctrinated with the idea of seperation of church & state, we don't have the ability to comprehend a theocracy. In our own way we keep desperately trying to seperate islam religion from islam gov't. when the reality is they(muslims) themselves don't want them seperated.
Do you think Muslims pray 5 times a day to Allah for their entire lifetime because of politics?- tom