bingo, studies of suicide bombers are totally against his type of claims. and have been for a long time. it was cute to say such things before 9/11, you could probably get away with it as many apologists did, but after? its just too clearly absurd now. 9/11 bombers were educated, not oppressed. the london bus bombers were british not palestinians under occupation, feeling more muslim than british, and attacking their fellow citizens who had personally done nothing to them.
http://www.wpr.org/book/060903b.html
What do you call young people who strap on explosive vests and detonate them in a crowded marketplace? President Bush says they're fascist terrorists. The Western press labels them suicide bombers. But to a Muslim, particularly one who's sympathetic to their political ideology, these people are martyrs, and what they're doing makes perfect sense. In this hour To the Best of Our Knowledge takes a look at suicide bombers - why there are so many in this generation, how their families feel, and what, if anything we can do about them.
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Robert Baer, CIA agent turned novelist is now a film-maker. His documentary is called "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber" and it's scarier than anything Hollywood is producing. Baer tells Steve Paulson about the first modern suicide bomber and how they've become heroes in Iran. He says martyrdom by suicide bombing is a political weapon not a religious act; that it's a virus and it's spreading. And we hear clips from his film. Also, novelist Louis de Bernieres tells Jim Fleming about the climate of religious toleration that marked the Ottoman Empire. De Bernieres' latest novel is "Birds without Wings."