The Bangsamoro from the southern Mindanao Islands, which are geologically closest to Malaysia, were the suicide bombers of their day; however, the Moros typically stuck to using knifes (bolos) to commit their suicidal actions.

And yes the Moro are generally Sunni Muslim, and are still getting testy and support Abu Sayaf and Jemaah Islamiyah.

Moroland is where US Army soldiers came up with the very non-PC phrase, “Let’s civilize ‘em with a Krag.”

intimidation

It would be hard to argue with the notion that patriarchal power is one of the drivers of (some) female suicide bombers.

I recall a few years ago a highly devout Muslim woman in the West Bank who was trained for a mission inside Israel. At the last minute, she couldn’t detonate herself and/or destroy her intended targets.

She was arrested by the Israelis. I don’t know where she is today, but I think about her and I admire her for being “unable” to carry out her mission.

OR that their families are blackmailed by the insurgents into getting their daughters, mothers, sisters to perpetrate such acts so that they can save the family’s face in those communities?

“The insurgents” in the Northwest region of Pakistan are intimidating the local tribes, as well. The people there are suffering under Taliban like fundamentalism and intimadation.

A courageous woman doesn’t go along with the program. She refuses.

It can happen.

Accusing someone of “hating Muslims” is really not the point.

Look around the world at events of the past several decades, from Africa to Indonesia to the Philippines to Europe to anywhere in the Middle East, to the Far East, to North America, even to South America, it is “Muslims” instigating and promoting the killing and mayhem.

Nasi–
oh my, was that a dig at me? There are plenty of more worthy causes in the world I can support than yours. If that is the attitude you are going to take towards someone who was trying to defend you, then consider my support for you Nil. You can fight this battle alone, as I said there are plenty of causes out there who would love support from this “indoctrinated kook”.

Ta-Ta

Islam is the source. Islam is the cause of most of the violence in the world today. Thailand, East Timor, Malaysia, Southern Philippines, lots of places in Africa, etc.

Yes.

The fact of the matter is they (ME women) are approached by jihadist men who assure them there is no higher honor than to die for Allah and the Koran. These Islamist thugs have no conscience exploiting their oppressed women be they in a state of grief, religious euphoria, mentally challenged or disabled.

It would seem so. I always found it ironic how so many of the chief proponents of the glories of “martyrdom” (e.g., bin Laden, Zawahiri, Sheikh Yassin (now deceased) in Palestine) work very hard to protect their own glorious asses.

The most damning things about Islam are written and spoken BY FORMER MUSLIMS.

Always the most credible sources. Also, the writings of the Iranian (by birth) Amir Taheri.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier _of_ the Queen!.

Also, the stories from the settlement of the American West were that the worst tortures of someone captured by the Indians were administered by the women. Maybe that was just fiction–or maybe there was something to it.