How are suicide bombers recruited??

[kentuck]

In my opinion, they are weak-minded and confused people, usually younger and easily manipulated by older zealots.

What is your opinion of the folks that committed the terrorist acts in Paris and killed all those people? Are they victims of society?

[darkangel218]

1. I wouldn't call them victims of "society"

They are victims of religious indoctrination.

[kentuck]

2. Are we allowed to say what religion?

Or is that Islamophobic?

[darkangel218]

4. Why shouldn't we be allowed? It is religios fundamentalism that brainnwashed them,

not society. Not all Muslims are religious fundies. There is a big difference between religion and radicalism.

[hifiguy]

3. Weak-minded idiots who glom onto lunatic religion

in hope of a payoff in a hereafter that doesn't exist. Dumb chumps, IOW, like the people who think they can beat the three-card monte dealer if they play just one more time.

Mr. Sobchak and the Dude also have a somewhat snarkier explanation:

[bettyellen]

5. I think the opportunity to pillage, rape and murder, while given a "job" and a wife

as well is tempting for some very angry young men. It's all their angry hormonal selves could ever ask for, wrapped up in a bow.

[hifiguy]

7. Well, blowing yourself into a cloud of red mist

makes those pleasures rather meaningless. Run of the loony-bin ISIS types might find that a powerful incentive indeed, but I can't see where there's any non-supernatural payoff for suicide bombers.

[bettyellen]

8. It's sad they are using rape and murder as an incentive. That's a whole lot of hate.

[hifiguy]

9. That's pretty standard operating procedure for barbarians

throughout history. Vandals, Huns, Vikings, Mongols, Imperial Japan in Manchuria, the Soviets in Eastern Europe and Germany in WW II. Something like 1 in 200 living men are descended from Chinghiz Khan alone. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/#.VlTdN3arTIU Add the rest of the Mongolian warrior horde into that and it's probably 1 in 100.

It's a sad old story, and the dumber end of the bell curve has not become any smarter in the last 1000 years, that's for sure.

[Hekate]

12. You are right. As war crimes go, rape is SOP.

[Mnemosyne]

6. When the US bombs/drones their family? nt

[emulatorloo]

10. So then they get all suicidal and go blow up French people.

[Mnemosyne]

14. They lose all perspective and become malleable for revenge. I was certainly not giving them an

excuse, as you seem to imply.

[emulatorloo]

16. No implications made!

Just trying to follow the logic of yr post. Thanks for the clarification.

FWIW seems like suicide missions have been around for many centuries.

[Hekate]

11. Women are being blackmailed to keep their families alive -- that was/is a Chechen specialty, iirc.

The two latest girls in Africa -- one aged 11 years old -- were Boko Haram slave-captives.

Some young women (late teens, early 20s) are bedazzled like their brothers with dreams of Paradise and sacrificing themselves for a noble greater Cause.

More than the males, I think the women and girls need to be looked at on a case by case basis, because in those cultures they have so much less agency over their own lives.

[ellenrr]

13. in the future they won't need to be recruited-

they are training children to be suicide bombers.
(Frontline)

[uppityperson]

15. There are many reasons. Here are a few possibilities off the top of my head

Their family is being threatened so they unwillingly do what they think will help them.

Their family and home have been bombed and killed so they willingly harm others to share their pain and end their pain.

They feel lost, alone, and are gradually groomed to do awful things to please someone who has convinced them they are understood and cared for (reminds me of Charlie Manson followers or DV survivors).

They are psychopaths who like to hurt others or perhaps get off, albeit briefly, on having such ultimate control of others lives.