Posted on 07/09/2007 11:55:10 AM PDT by citizenmike
(From an article titled:Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature)
Most suicide bombers are Muslim
Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that 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.
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Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that 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. Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region.
However, polygyny itself is not a sufficient cause of suicide bombing. Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa. And they do have very high levels of violence. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a long history of continuous civil wars—but not suicide bombings.
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.
It is the combination of polygyny and the promise of a large harem of virgins in heaven that motivates many young Muslim men to commit suicide bombings. Consistent with this explanation, all studies of suicide bombers indicate that they are significantly younger than not only the Muslim population in general but other (nonsuicidal) members of their own extreme political organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. And nearly all suicide bombers are single.
MOST?
Show me one that ISN’T Muslim..
Holy Cow Batman, Why didn’t we notice that?
I think there were some Tamils in Ceylon.
You wanna really frustrate ‘em? Tell them that eternity is a long, long time to listen to the laughter of 72 virgins who are making fun of your very short *equipment*...
Balderdash ... if the sexual premise were correct, we’d have geeks exploding all over the place.
"All we need is love...." indeed.
The results of a pork free diet???
I read this yesterday - what seems odd to me is that Doctors, even in England would be among the well off group - so, why did they get involved? Surely, they had access to women.
This is news?
BUMP
in the video link I posted, Hamid explains why Sunni Muslims are more apt to do suicide bombings. The Shia have 1 hour “temporary marriages,” so they aren’t as sexually frustrated.
LTTE wasn't based a religious group, though. The LTTE used a suicide bomber to assassinate a former Indian prime minister who has sent Indian troops to aid the Sri Lankan army in fighting the LTTE.
Men like blond bombshells
Until very recently, it was a mystery to evolutionary psychology why men prefer women with large breasts, since the size of a woman's breasts has no relationship to her ability to lactate. But Harvard anthropologist Frank Marlowe contends that larger, and hence heavier, breasts sag more conspicuously with age than do smaller breasts. Thus they make it easier for men to judge a woman's age (and her reproductive value) by sight—suggesting why men find women with large breasts more attractive.Alternatively, men may prefer women with large breasts for the same reason they prefer women with small waists. A new study of Polish women shows that women with large breasts and tight waists have the greatest fecundity, indicated by their levels of two reproductive hormones (estradiol and progesterone).
now there is a headline in need of a Drudge siren
this is quite likely related to the 72 virgin thing.....I read something very like this many years ago in an omar khayyam book....
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13245
This bogus theory fails to explain female suicide bombers.
The truth is, it is Islam.
“MOST?
Show me one that ISN’T Muslim..”
You’d have to go back to 1945 at least for that answer.
So we just need to get them all laid????
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