The martyr myth

• Autores: Adam Lankford
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2924, 2013, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Lankford talks about portraying suicide bombers as psychologically normal is wrong. Far from being psychologically normal, suicide terrorists are suicidal. They kill themselves to escape crises or unbearable pain. Terrorist leaders have strategic reasons for insisting that attackers are not suicidal, but instead are carrying out glorious martyrdom operations. Traumatized parents want to believe that their children were motivated by heroic impulses. And suicidal people commonly deny that they are suicidal and are often able to hide their true feelings from the world. This is especially true of fundamentalist Muslims. Suicide is explicitly condemned in Islam and guarantees an eternity in hell. Martyrs, on the other hand, can go to heaven.