FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W160627856> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W160627856 startingPage "15" @default.
• W160627856 abstract "Many motives are cited for suicide bombings, from religious sanctification to revenge for Western foreign policy to hatred of Israel, but one thing ties them together: the boast that Muslims love death, whereas their enemies love life. From killing the infidel enemy through suicide attacks, to allowing the subordinate female to participate in suicide attacks, a pattern emerges. And just as honor killings are a perversion of the most basic of human ties, so love for martyrdom takes societies into a direct relationship with the darkest side of human nature. In trying to explain this, it may be feasible to identify routes to a possible solution. ORIGINS Since the 1 980s, killing oneself deliberately has become the most popular method of attacking and killing one's enemies in countries including Iraq and Afghanistan, in territories such as Chechnya or the West Bank and Gaza, and even in Western countries such as the United States and Great Britain. It was a real-life Shi' i fanatic, a thirteen-year-old boy called Hossein Fahmideh, who set things moving in 1981 when he died with a grenade in his hand, throwing himself under a tank during the Iran-Iraq war. He was followed by thousands of young Iranians carrying keys to paradise, who walked and ran across minefields, ripping their bodies apart for God and the Islamic regime.1 Two years later, the first suicide attack occurred against a Western target when a bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the lobby of the American embassy in Beirut. Apart from himself, he killed 63 people: 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors. Iran denied all involvement in the attack, but its protege, Hezbollah, soon claimed responsibility, and it was subsequently established that the killings had been approved and financed by senior Iranian officials. The Iranian role in many subsequent suicide bombings has been crucial, given the existence of a clerical elite that inherited a deeply-embedded Shi' i cult of martyrdom, whose traditions of flagellation, public weeping, passion plays, martyrdom sermons, and hagiographies of martyrs were pushed into overdrive after the revolution of 1 979. AN ISLAMIC PARADOX By 2008, 1,121 suicide bombers had carried out attacks in Iraq, killing on a massive scale. With the exception of Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers used the tactic, suicide bombing has become an almost exclusively Islamic phenomenon. Whether religiously observant or driven by other motives, the bombers have been Muslims, regardless of their country of origin. Even Muslims raised and educated in non-Muslim countries (like Britain's 7/7 bombers) and exposed to cultures with- out overt jihadi propa- ganda have put on explo- sive belts and gone to their deaths in order to kill nonbelievers. Apart from their Islamic roots, these terrorists display a wide range of character- istics. Many have been young men, some of whom were mentally dis- abled, while others were very bright, some uneducated, others university graduates; a growing number are women, mostly young, some old, some virgins, others pregnant or mothers. Many have belonged to terrorist groups such as Hamas and have been indoctrinated in Islamist thought, anti-Semitism, or general hatred of the West. Others have been volunteers seeking to expiate sins or retrieve the honor of their families. Yet suicide bombing involves a paradox within Islam. On the one hand, laws relating to jihad unambiguously state that fighters must not take the lives of noncombatants, such as women, children, the sick, or the elderly At the same time, anyone who dies while fighting non- Muslims is considered a martyr and guaranteed the highest rank in paradise. How do Islamists get round this problem? Some may shut their eyes and get on with it, but others come face to face with the paradox by dividing the problem into bite-size pieces. Clerics sanctify the bomb- ers in their sermons, organizations including Hamas and Islamic Jihad identify and celebrate them as fighters in the jihad, and foreign do- nors provide aid that is siphoned off to the families of the martyrs. …" @default.
• W160627856 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W160627856 creator A5008804665 @default.
• W160627856 date "2009-09-01" @default.
• W160627856 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W160627856 title "Suicide Bombing as Worship" @default.
• W160627856 hasPublicationYear "2009" @default.
• W160627856 type Work @default.
• W160627856 sameAs 160627856 @default.
• W160627856 citedByCount "2" @default.
• W160627856 countsByYear W1606278562015 @default.
• W160627856 countsByYear W1606278562016 @default.
• W160627856 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W160627856 hasAuthorship W160627856A5008804665 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C111919701 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C195244886 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C203133693 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C24667770 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C2777222677 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C2779438500 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C2780617971 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C2781017023 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C38652104 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C41065033 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C4445939 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C73484699 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W160627856 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C111919701 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C138885662 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C144024400 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C166957645 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C17744445 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C195244886 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C199539241 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C203133693 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C24667770 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C2777222677 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C2779438500 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C2780617971 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C2781017023 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C38652104 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C41008148 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C41065033 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C4445939 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C73484699 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C94625758 @default.
• W160627856 hasConceptScore W160627856C95457728 @default.
• W160627856 hasIssue "4" @default.
• W160627856 hasLocation W1606278561 @default.
• W160627856 hasOpenAccess W160627856 @default.
• W160627856 hasPrimaryLocation W1606278561 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W119399949 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W1483453089 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W1501937499 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W1511330530 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W1527399802 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W162057864 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W168836487 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W206475923 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W228195066 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W2772602257 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W292269232 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W2979002645 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W2985717452 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W3118496519 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W4173661 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W56989929 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W570882936 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W633186516 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W635492593 @default.
• W160627856 hasRelatedWork W310242162 @default.
• W160627856 hasVolume "16" @default.
• W160627856 isParatext "false" @default.
• W160627856 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W160627856 magId "160627856" @default.
• W160627856 workType "article" @default.