how about the one that is responsible
for most of the suicide bombing oh that
is so islamophobic I am islamophobic
yeah so this idea of you know suicide
bombings and suicide killings and all
that it's important again to understand
this in context and understand you know
where did this start what is the history
behind it and why do people do it and
where's the connection between Islam
there's always somehow this connection
between Islam and suicide bombing that's
what's in the minds of many people
because that's what they consume in
mainstream media unfortunately let's
let's take a look at some facts okay the
first recorded suicide attack that we
know of as as human beings as as
researchers was actually done by
Christian
Crusaders against Muslims so there was a
group of Crusaders who actually sunk
their own ship so they could that they
could actually result in 10 times the
deaths of Muslims uh on that you know
the Expedition right so this is the
first incident right this is classical
then you fast forward to like the modern
era you find the first suicide bombing
modern suicide bombing that's taking
place in St Petersburg right in 18 U
let's see what's the year I got um 1881
where they killed thear basically the
guy was not a Muslim this was not a
Muslim suicide bombing and suicide
bombings continued it continues and it
continues with kamakazi so in war you
got the Japanese and what they're doing
is many Japanese are volunteering
themselves to get in airplanes and they
go and they crash you know know bombs
into certain you know ships and sing
those ships the Germans are practicing
the same type of suicide bombing
techniques during the battle uh for
Berlin against the Russians so they're
going and they're trying to destroy the
bridges that are coming they're
sacrificing their own lives for a
military purpose and then what really
happened is there really wasn't much
suicide bombing during the Cold War
period that's really interesting the
reason why there and this is important
for everyone to understand specifically
Joe is that the reason why there wasn't
suicide bombing during the Cold War
period is because the superpowers of the
US and Russia Soviet Union they're
equipping these little countries that
are fighting with each other right
they're equipping them with a lot of
weapons when you have a lot of weapons
to fight other people back with you
don't need suicide bombing so then what
happened was is that we don't see much
during the Cold War the next instance of
suicide bombing that we start seeing is
in Lebanon so in Lebanon when Israel
goes and occupies Lebanon in the early
80s you get a movement of people who
cannot fight back against Superior
military technology that Israel has so
they start getting this idea of let's go
start doing the suicide bombings what's
really interesting and this is how
suicide bombing became prevalent in
modern society today it started in
Lebanon particularly and what's really
interesting is 77% of the people who
were engaging in suicide bombings in
Lebanon they were Communists or
socialists they were not doing it for
Islamic reasons they were not doing it
because you know they're inspired to do
for some Muslim cause or something like
that and what's more interesting is 8%
of them were Christian as well right so
this is not a religious thing this is a
secular thing meaning in the sense that
it's something that people are doing
because they have no other military
option to carry out anything and then
when people saw that Israel actually
backed out of Lebanon they say oh well
it looks like suicide bombing is
potentially working and we don't have
any resource to fight back we should do
something along these lines right so now
somehow you know what's going on in the
world today is whenever you find a group
of people doesn't matter if it's the
Tamil tigers in Sri Lanka who are not
relig this is not a a Muslim group they
have nothing to do with Islam at all
they were conducting suicide bombings
against the government so that they
could get their own Tam region right why
are they doing this this is a way for
people who don't have many resources to
fight back for whatever cause they're
fighting for so when you're deciding
who's a terrorist and what's a terrorist
and who's fighting and who's suicide
bombing the first thing you got to ask
yourself is is this cause Justified what
they're fighting for are they Freedom
Fighters or are they terrorists the
second the second thing is do they have
the ability to fight or they don't have
the ability to fight back if they don't
have any weapons and they're being
oppressed or they have no resources
whatsoever then yeah they might be
willing to utilize their bodies what
does all of this have to do with Islam
absolutely nothing there is absolutely
nothing connected with the religion of
Islam that's saying you should go use
yourself as a v you know use your body
as a a way of going and you know
targeting a specific bomb at an
individual or going and you know killing
innocent civilians or all the other
things that are somehow connected or
tied to Suicide bombing so this idea of
what Islam is responsible for suicide
bombing is just another another one of
those you know just fake uh misleading
propaganda statements that just keeps
being thrown out there and it kind of
takes away the context of what is the
political circumstance going on in that
specific area in that country where we
need to analyze is this struggle just or
unjust killing of innocent civilians is
never just it's never allowed in Islam
but that's not even when people say
suicide bomb they're not even talking
about that they have a problem with this
idea of suicide and bombing and killing
or whatever it is this is a military
thing it's a political thing in order
for this to take place there needs to be
a political context that's what needs to
be kept in mind and who I see who
substantially academic they don't bring
them on mainstream media because it
doesn't doesn't support the narrative
and it would educate the public to you
know the the awareness of really what's
going on in these in in these areas of
the world that Robert P you know the
terrorist expert he analyzed over a
thousand different terrorist attacks to
date and he talks about ay this has
little to nothing to do with Islam or uh
religion a lot of times he said that
many of these are secularists he says
and people are about to do a suicide
attack and now they're going to face
death and all of a sudden they become
religious right right because that's it
now people find God at the end right and
now they they cling on to it but in
reality it's because they want the
occupying Force out of there and like
you're saying they have no other means
right and again anything to do with
Islam now yeah no it's it's all
political it's political that's exactly
what the terrorist expert Dr Robert P an
academic from the University of Chicago
say every terrorist expert says that you
know what there's a political you know
objective that's there you need to
justify that objective you're going to
you're going to justify it either with
nationalism Nazi party Neo-Nazi whatever
it is you're going to justify it with
some religion that you practice you're
going to justify it with your
superiority of your race you need to
justify the political objective some
people will use religion to justify it
some people will use nationalism some
people will use race they'll use other
Ma you know factors if there's no
political objective then there's not
going to be any terrorism in my opinion
it's Injustice humiliation oppression
that is are the most common causes of
terrorism some people claim that
religion motivates terrorists however
the academic research of Dr Robert Pape
has proved the claim to be
false uh what I did is I collected the
first complete database of every suicide
terrorist attack around the world since
1980 uh the first version of this
database uh was uh uh published a few
years ago and it went from 1980 to 2003
think of that as like the pre irq
database and then the second version
from
2004 uh on think of that as the data
that's happened since Iraq um and what
the data shows quite clearly is that uh
the principal cause of suicide terrorism
is foreign occupation in that period
from 1980 to 2003 there were
315 completed suicide terrorist attacks
by
462 suicide terrorists who actually
killed themselves I don't mean attempts
these are people who actually killed
themselves the world leader during that
24-year period was not an Islamic group
at all they are the toml Tigers in Sri
Lanka the toml tigers are a Marxist
group a secular group a Hindu group in
fact over half of those 462 suicide
attackers were purely secular because
you see many uh Muslim suicide terrorist
groups are also P purely secular such as
the pkk in Turkey the pkk in Turkey
which did uh numerous suicide attacks in
the 1990s uh is again a Marxist read
anti-religious suicide terrorist group
because you see if Islam as a sort of a
radical religion or if it were just
radical Muslims uh doing this then what
you would expect is sort of this thin
veneer of suicide attack kind of
scattered all around the world uh you
would expect that oh there's 1.4 billion
Muslims you know there's this teeny tiny
Fringe of Muslims kind of everywhere
who'd be willing to do suicide attack uh
but that's not the way the data looks
it's really concentrated and it's really
concentrated in occupations