I have a few questions for you if I might. Well, maybe not for you exactly, since you’re, you know, dead and all, and not likely to answer. Maybe some of those who long to follow in your footsteps can help me out here. You see, ever since you folks started to make a name for yourselves, I’ve wondered about some of these questions, but after the double suicide the other day that succeeded in killing 155 innocent people or so, I thought maybe it would be best if I got some of these out in the open for us to discuss.
First off, what motivates you to do something like that? I mean, I understand the suicide urge and all of that. We have some of that over here in the West. All over the globe I suppose. We even have a few fools who go in to schools and businesses and shoot the places up and wind up pretty much as dead as you do. We don’t think of them as suicide shooters though. And we have that phenomenon known as death by cop. But, we don’t have anybody doing exactly what you do. Thank goodness.
So, back to my question. Why?
I read some about how your particular religious beliefs might come into play as a motivational factor here. I don’t know whether to believe that or not, so I thought it best to ask you directly. Is it the chance to meet Allah that causes you to act as you do? I’ve spent a fair amount of time studying the world’s religions, yours among them, so I can understand why that meeting might have some appeal. But why the rush? And what gives you the right to drag others along with you? Why not give your personal story a chance to play out a little longer? Do you have some sort of inside information on Allah’s liking short stories over longer works? And what if, perish the thought I know, Allah isn’t there? Do you even factor that into the equation? When those who are recruiting you for such gruesomeness promise you all that they do, have you ever stopped to consider the possibility that Allah might be a figment of Mohammed’s imagination? Or asked yourself why, if it’s such a treat and an honor to meet him, those who have recruited you aren’t doing it themselves?
Perhaps it’s the 40 virgins or however many you’re supposed to encounter. What exactly is the fascination with that anyway? Why not just get that one out of the way in whatever your equivalent is to junior high or high school? And, no offense to the ladies who practice your trade, but that promise of the virgins seems a decidedly male sort of thing. Do the ladies get the same 40 virgins? And are the virgins male? Or female? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Please forgive me for saying so, but judging by the way your society and religion treats women to begin with, I’m a little doubtful about this one.
What I really don’t get though is why in the world you blow up your own people, your own countrymen and women. Using your particular skill set as a weapon in war I can sort of understand. Using it to blow up people who are just going about their daily routines is beyond me. What can you possibly hope to accomplish? Given the mayhem you have wrecked, who would ever sympathize with whatever cause it is you’re supposed to be blowing yourself up for? There is some sort of cause right? It’s not just that regular old “selfish” kind of thing that’s a part of most suicides is it? Yours is for the greater good, right?
I wonder too if suicide bomber is some sort of career path. Do you grow up thinking “I’m going to be a suicide bomber, just like Uncle Barney”? Or is it something you decide later in life? Do you do it to save your family some money? Admittedly, your method certainly saves on embalming or cremation charges. How about whether you drive a vehicle loaded with explosives or you don a suicide vest? Are there guidelines for that? And how is it decided whether you pull the string, so to speak, or someone does it remotely, via radio signal? Do you get extra points for one way over the other?
