Suicide Bombers

Good afternoon Chris, There is a re-occurring theme of attributing religion as a major role in the fundamental attributes of suicide bombers. I would agree with you more so on the fact that having meaning can be impactful in the decision to become a suicide bomber more than religion. Youths raised in dysfunctional homes or people without a home or family may experience a loss of self-importance and be lead to seek comfort or the feeling of importance in alternatives that they might have previously found deplorable. On the flip side of that a youth raised in moderate wealth with little or no responsibilities has a break in the norms of his/her reality that impacts their reality enough to create sentiments of dissatisfaction leading to their
With games like call of duty, Doom and Resident Evil children around the world grow up viewing horrid mutilations of personnel, molding their minds to better be able to enact suicide bombings and horrendous murders without blinking. The 1980’s were horror flicks, the 1990’s was action flicks and now everything is violence. Riaz Hassan said it best when he stated “the causes of suicide bombings lie not in individual psychopathology but in broader social conditions” (2009). From personal experience I have found children watching horror flicks and crime movies/shows or playing shooting games and the like in third world countries. Technology has spread to people that don’t even have working toilets, but they have a cellular phone and or a gaming system with television. Mass media social, political, religion, cultural traditions and standards of living are all major influences as to how people make their decisions. If you look into the statistics for suicide bombings the reason are multipliers with a key turning point in a person’s life that attribute to the final