--- frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> wrote:
> >
> this is at least partly bullshit...there is reason
> for the person to
> commit the act that has nothing to do with going to
> heaven...if heaven
> were the simple cause, why wouldn't everybody who
> "believes" simply blow
> themselves up and get a quick entry to edensville?
>
> good way to avoid - and sustain - the source of the
> problems that drive
> people to off themselves this way...
>
> fs
>
Actually there hasn't been a suicide bombing involving a Chechen in some time, unless I've missed something. Chechnya doesn't have a martyr culture. I have a theory that there were "simulated" suicided bombings a few years ago involving widows who were cynically encouraged and used by mercenaries in order to attract jihadi money from the Gulf, and then ceased when that money got blocked.
The famous failed Chechen suicide bomber's husband wasn't killed by Russian or pro-Russian forces at all -- he was killed by a drunk Ingush border guard when he wouldn't pay a bribe (that's what she says anyway). I have a long, 40k translation of a transcript from Russian TV about her, if anybody's interested I can send it offlist. She says she was bullied into it. Might be lying, I don't know.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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