[lbo-talk] Motives of the London bombers

[Michael Pugliese]

On 8/8/05, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:I further think
that since males are more likely than females to join
exclusive and violent organization, be it a terrorist cell, or a street
gang, or for that matter the Marines  - this suggests that masculinity, or
at least social construction of it, is a non-trivial factor.  Add to it the
fact that sexual morality, or rather a certain view of it, is what often
provokes outbursts of violence - from domestic violence, to gang rape, to
bombing of abortion clinics, and to terrorist acts to defend "our women's
chastity."

   More likely but, far from unheard of.
http://www.feminista.com/archives/v5n1/dworkin.html
The Women Suicide Bombers 
Andrea Dworkin
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n21/rose01_.html
Deadly Embrace
Jacqueline Rose 

My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph
Reuter trans. Helena Ragg-Kirkby [ Buy from the London Review Bookshop
] · Princeton, 246 pp, £15.95

Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers
by Barbara Victor [ Buy from the London Review Bookshop ] · Robinson,
321 pp, £8.99

http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=499
Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Female Suicide Bombers