[wideawake]

What do you mean "counter"? Do you mean come up with a compelling refutation of this theological construct?

Or do you mean coming up with a tactical means of discouraging this conduct?

Also, I should point out that Usama bin Laden and the Taliban belong to the Wahhabist sect of Sunni Islam. Wahabbism teaches a strict predestinationism and its adherents believe that they are fated to die in Allah's service - that they have an inner call to martyrdom which they have no power to resist. Therefore, to some of these terrorists there is no meaning to the term "winning points" - they're simply doing what they believe they were born to do.

[Diamond]

...Wahabbism teaches a strict predestinationism...

I think it would be more accurate to say that Wahabbism teaches a brand of fatalism. But predestinarianism is not fatalism.

Cordially,