Ground to a Halt (Research shows: Suicide-bombers Communists, not Islamists

New York Times ^ | August 3, 2006 | ROBERT PAPE

[GodGunsGuts]

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In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. Of the 41, we identified the names, birth places and other personal data for 38. Shockingly, only eight were Islamic fundamentalists. Twenty-seven were from leftist political groups like the Lebanese Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Union. Three were Christians, including a female high-school teacher with a college degree. All were born in Lebanon.

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Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is the author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”

[GodGunsGuts]

Here's another good one. Hope you will take the time to read them. I think you will find them very worthwhile--GGG

Dangerous liaisons: covert ''love affair" between RUSSIA and HEZBOLLAH

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666929/posts

[Cindy]

Thank you.

[syriacus]

We've seen the co-operation between the Islamo-Fascists and the communists at anti-War demonstrations in the US.

Not only do fascists and communists help each other at anti-war demonstrations, fascism and communism can even reside within one person

Mussolini's Marxist Roots

So, how many people today are aware that Mussolini, that great Fascist ogre, was in his youth an incandescent revolutionary socialist, a labor-union agitator who was jailed for his pains (Hibbert, 1962)? He was as radical as any student radical of today. ...

After that he became one of Italy's most prominent Marxist theoreticians and an intimate of Lenin. He was in fact first dubbed "Il Duce" (the Leader) when he was a member of Italy's (Marxist) Socialist Party and between 1912 and 1914 he was the editor of their newspaper, "L'Avanti". After his split with the Socialist Party he started his own Leftist newspaper "Il Popolo d'Italia" ("The people of Italy").

[familyop]

"The next question that the author should have researched is why are so many Communists engaged in the practice of suicide bombing, and which organization(s)/country(s) are directing them?"

Almost all publicly known business in Iran is owned by the government of Iran. The political leadership there recently discussed privatizing some of it (probably for propaganda purposes).

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Tell me the New York Times isn't trying to say Muslims are not the ones to blame, when it comes to suicide bombings.

Not really. It seems that what they are trying to wiggle out of is that most Islamic terror groups are also hard line Communist terror groups. A bad combination we might agree.

Actually I wonder that this comes as such a shock as I have been saying that the Communists had supplied, trained and funded Islamic terror since the beginning. It was, I thought, common knowledge. As it should be common knowledge that the IRA is a hard-line communist terror group and FARC is a hard-line Communist terror group.

In fact if you look at terror groups around the world the thing they have in common is that they seem to be 99% communist.

[sgtbono2002]

Dont look at the bombers, They are just simple minded fools. Look at where they are getting their bombs. Those are the smart ones. The ones that talk these fools into death while they supply the equipment.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

ping

[GodGunsGuts]

Thanks Teddy, great post. Might want to check out my links a few post up--GGG

[observer5]

"There is no reason to assume, that Christians would be immune to this phenomena"

Total BS.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I don't either. I thought the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka originated the fad.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Well if the Islamofascists are also closet Commies, it does explain the lefts love affair with terrorists.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Total BS.

Ever hear of Liberation Theology? Communists disavow all moral rules (read Lenin's Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder), so it is not a problem for them to disguise themselves in the garb of any religion.

[syriacus]

Dont look at the bombers, They are just simple minded fools. Look at where they are getting their bombs. Those are the smart ones. The ones that talk these fools into death while they supply the equipment.

Great point!!

[syriacus]

Bookmarked your post, with all the great links. Thanks!!

[syriacus]

My liberal sister moved to a new city and joined a matchmaking service there.

She told the service that she would be open to meeting a man of almost any religious background, except Islam.

One of her dates, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, was a Lebanese-American Christian (not Maronite; never been to Lebanon) who seemed nice enough at first.

After a while he began to speak heatedly about the Israelis and to recite his list of all the terrible things they have done to the Lebanese. He spoke disparagingly of the Jews in general. By the time he was through, he was speaking loudly about how accurate Mein Kampf was and suggesting she read it.

Amazing!! What you find when you scratch the surface of some folks.

[Porterville]

NY Times eating thier own yet again? An attack on communist? From liberals? Amazing.

[SQUID]

Complete PRO ISLAMO-NAZI propaganda. Nonsense.

[Thunder90]

Remember that the Ba'ath party is like the Communist Party elsewhere.

[Thunder90]

The idea that Communists are still trying to rule the world explains Russia's and China's actions regarding the Middle East crisis.

[monday]

" disillusionized fanatics of the extreme left, and other mentally imbalanced people."

Being mentally unbalanced is a requirement for being communist. Suicidal hate is a primary symptom of communism or indeed any other cult like ideology, be it the racism of fascism, or the earth worship of environmental terrorists, or the religious intolerance of Islam.

A test to see if an ideology is rational is if the ideology requires it's adherents to force others to follow it's precepts by whatever means necessary including death, imprisonment, and brain washing. If it does than that ideology is inherently evil and it's practitioners are mentally unbalanced at best.