al-Qaida Uses Women As Suicide Attackers

[Jethro]

Saturday, January 05, 2008 1:50:37 AM
By DIAA HADID

It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.
The female suicide attacks come as U.S.-led coalition forces are increasingly catching militants suspected of training women to become human bombs or finding evidence of efforts by al-Qaida in Iraq to recruit women, according to military records.
With coalition forces pushing extremists out of former strongholds and shrinking their pool of potential recruits, the militants are being forced to come up with other methods to penetrate stiffened security measures, said Diaa Rashwan, who follows Islamic militancy for Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies...

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[Mihx]

And people say they don't have equal rights in Islamic countries. Clearly this is a major win for Islamic feminists (well, those that haven't been stoned to death or shot, stabbed or been blown up by their husbands and families) .

[rogue]

so how does the 40 virgins thing work? do they get 40 male virgins and if so, is that 40 young men or 40 old geeks who cannot find a girlfriend in the material world?

[freechess]

Originally Posted by rogue

so how does the 40 virgins thing work? do they get 40 male virgins and if so, is that 40 young men or 40 old geeks who cannot find a girlfriend in the material world?

they probably claim the former but deliver the latter

[kaz]

I wonder if the women are doing this of their own free will or their husbands are forcing them into it

[freechess]

Originally Posted by kaz

I wonder if the women are doing this of their own free will or their husbands are forcing them into it

i gut feeling says forced. but the women could be brainwashed as well

[ScreaM]

Those worthless fucks will do anything to kill.

[mikesinner]

It's been done before. Most real Muslims don't support this crap but the media is great at focusing on the extremists and making them look like they are representative of all Muslims.

[freechess]

Originally Posted by mikesinner

It's been done before. Most real Muslims don't support this crap but the media is great at focusing on the extremists and making them look like they are representative of all Muslims.

of course society always needs a scapegoat to make them feel better

about themselves.

[Mihx]

Originally Posted by mikesinner

It's been done before. Most real Muslims don't support this crap but the media is great at focusing on the extremists and making them look like they are representative of all Muslims.

While you're of course right, things like several hundred thousand more or less rabid muslims protesting (and worse) in the streets during that little Muhammed cartoon incident a while back, can't help but make you wonder if a substantial portion of Muslims aren't perhaps taking their religion just a tad too serious - and apparantly consider violence, arson and death threats a perfectly valid way of defending said religion.

Of course there's no shortage on rabid Christians in the world either, but at least in the last few centuries that religion seems to be a bit less inclined to use violent means of spreading its "message" than in the past.
But of course, with many Islamic countries essentially being stuck in a timeloop several hundred years back, I guess today's differences probably aren't too surprising.

[ScreaM]

We should gather up all those extremists on an island and then blow the whole damn island.

[Dupont]

They should all blow themselves up

[ErnieP]

While the argument can be made that the Quran does not explicitly justify the activities of extremists, some interpretations can and do. The books of Hadith, on the other hand, are quite clear as to what is required of the faithful in defense of Islam. And it isn't getting along with the non-muslim neighbors, that's for sure.

I always thought it obvious that the extremists, from an Islamic perspective, are the ones we call moderates. You know, those uncounted millions who take to the streets in protest every time a suicide bomber blows up a building full of kids.

Calling a suicide bomber an extremist on Islam is like calling a truck driver who takes communion an extremist

[gecko]

Originally Posted by mikesinner

It's been done before. Most real Muslims don't support this crap but the media is great at focusing on the extremists and making them look like they are representative of all Muslims.

This is the sad truth