Why Islamic terrorists are willing to commit suicide

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See the Lev Navrozov Archive By Lev Navrozov SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.

In August 2001, shortly before 9/11, the well-known CBS documentary program Ò60 MinutesÓ interviewed an Islamic (Palestinian) terrorist about the motives of those who blow themselves up in order to kill infidels (Israelis in the present case).

What prompted Islamic suicidal terrorists to sacrifice their lives? The great future of Palestine? How unlikely! ÒPalestineÓ is not even an Arab word. The word is Latin and was given by the Roman Empire to their Jewish colony when no one had heard of Arabs there, and Islam originated many centuries later. Is the motive the destruction of Israel? How can the destruction of Israel be worth the destruction of the ONE AND ONLY LIFE a Moslem (a human being) has?

However, the great future of Palestine and/or destruction of Israel are at least historically imaginable. But what was the motivation of 19 Moslems, including 15 Saudis, in the killing of about 3,000 Americans? The great future of Saudi Arabia cannot be thus created in North America, and the destruction of the United States does not come closer as a result of decrease of its population in 2001 by one-thousandth of 1 percent.

The Western officials, including the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, dealing with Islamic suicidal terrorism, refuse to understand even its motivation. They have assumed that it is political Ñ like meetings or demonstrations in the West. They have also regarded suicidal terrorists as tools of an organization, such as Òthe Islamic organization Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for dozens of suicide bombings against Israel,Ó as a report of Aug. 23, 2001, put it, describing the Ò60 MinutesÓ interview.

The phrase Òhas claimed responsibilityÓ is noteworthy. A suicidal terrorist carries out a terrorist act in which he sacrifices his ONE AND ONLY LIFE. Hamas Òclaims responsibility,Ó that is, brags of it. Accordingly, Sharon bombs Hamas in 2004 and kills its two top officials. Well, next time Hamas officials will not brag, or, if they do, they will hide like Osama bin Laden. Similarly, the United States got rid of the Taliban, ÒcapturedÓ the living corpse of Saddam Hussein, and is trying to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, who Òclaimed responsibilityÓ for the death of about 3,000 Americans on 9/11/01 and has also been bragging that he will kill all Jews and Crusaders (Christians). If all Westerners are killed (by Chinese molecular nano weapons), Osama will Òclaim responsibilityÓ for their deaths.

Actually, a suicidal terrorist (to say nothing of 19 suicidal terrorists) may plan and carry out a suicidal terrorist act without any Hamas or Al Qaida, claiming responsibility. HE will be wholly responsible for his terrorist suicide. Period.

An organization, be it a criminal mafia or a democratic government, can control a person in two ways: rewards and penalties. A suicidal terrorist is impervious to either way. He is to die at his own will. Hence he may seize Osama by the scruff of his neck, and despite the boastful coward's piteous pleas for mercy, smash him against the wall.

Members of organizations like Hamas or Al Qaida may run into millions and be absolutely harmless. One suicidal terrorist is a mortal danger on his fearless own and without any organization.

Instead of making an expected political speech, denouncing Israel, the terrorist explained on Ò60 MinutesÓ in 2001 that the Islamic suicidal terrorists are motivated by their wish to go to the Islamic paradise, where each of them would deflower 70 houris Ñ beautiful virgins whose virginity is renewable, that is, while a former suicidal terrorist deflowers, say, the seventh houri, the first becomes a virgin again, and thus the deflowering may go on eternally, since the former terrorist's ability to deflower a virgin will be as renewable as her virginity.

Those who have read ÒThe Arabian NightsÓ will recall that its main protagonist was rich and powerful enough to have a new wife (a virgin, of course) every night, and the paradise rationalizes, sublimates, and ennobles this historical aspect of Islamic life Òat the topÓ Ñ harems.

The Ò60 MinutesÓ interview produced a storm of indignation among some American Moslems. Dr. Maher Hathout, an American Moslem specialist in Islam, declared that Òthere is nothing in the Koran or in any Islamic teachings about 70 virgins or sex in paradise. This is ridiculous.Ó

Many Western Moslem specialists in Islam have assumed that anything in the Koran differing from the Bible or from the United Nations Charter would ÒdefameÓ Moslems since it would suggest that they are different from Judeo-Christian and agnostic-atheistic Westerners. After the suicidal terrorist act of 9/11/01, American Moslem specialists in Islam kept saying in the U.S. media that the word ÒIslamÓ means not Òsubmission,Ó as the Arabic-English dictionaries indicate, but Òpeace,Ó as in the relevant Geneva conventions of the past 150 years.

Ignorant as the West has been re the Islamic world, the Western Moslem specialists in Islam have constituted a solid wall, preserving that ignorance.

Fortunately, there are copies of the Koran in English in the branch libraries of the New York Public Library, and so there is no need to believe the Western Moslem specialists in Islam that houris, deflowered by male paradise-dwellers, is a Ò60 MinutesÓ invention, intended to defame Moslems.

The word Òhouri,Ó which my Webster's defines as Òone of the voluptuously beautiful virgins that in Muslim belief lives with the blessed in paradise,Ó came into English from Arabic in 1737. The word exists in all languages. Is this an international conspiracy of many centuries to defame Moslems?

The Judeo-Christian paradise is spiritual (recall Dante), fleshless, and certainly asexual. On the contrary, Adam and Eve were banished from it, you know what for. Voluntary celibacy was widespread even in earthly Christian life Ñ the celibacy of monks, nuns, and Roman Catholic priests. The Islamic paradise offers in mind-boggling abundance what the poor do not have in their earthly life:

Wealth, such as precious stones and other items of luxury,
Water in springs, fountains, and swimming pools (there was a dearth of water in Arabia).
Wine in Òrivers of wine,Ó Òdelicious to those who drink it.Ó Yet Òit will neither dull their senses nor befuddle themÓ (Koran 37:40-48).

Fruits. This is another dream-in-an-Arabian-desert of the Islamic poor in their earthly life.

The deflowering of houris, beautiful virgins. This is in response to the kind of poverty Ñ mass sexual starvation Ñ that does not exist in Christendom with its monogamy: one husbandøone wife. The Islamic rich can have up to four wives. Hence the poor often have none. Imagine the resulting male sexual starvation and the maniacal vision of the deflowering of houris Ñ a kind of eternal bridal night.

Let us now take a sample year, say, 1997, and see that 3,559 American males from 15 to 24 years old and only 627 American females of the same age committed suicide in that year. This does not mean that American males from 15 to 24 years old are worse off than Americans females of the same age. This means that suicide is genetic. Women are, genetically, more attached to the family, children, procreation, and human life. In the Islamic world, whose statistics I will not quote because I do not trust it, the proportion of males wishing to commit suicide can well be expected to be much greater than in the United States since the males unable to marry because the rich have up to four wives are less attached to life than married men.

But a genetically suicidal Islamic male can enact his suicide as martyrdom for Islam and thus ascend to the Paradise of super-earthly wealth and other super-earthly splendors, and first and foremost, of beautiful virgins to be deflowered in an eternal bridal night.

Those of us who have encountered a virgin in their sexual biography know that the encounter may be psychologically moving, but sensually it is next to nothing for a man and an acute pain for a woman. But owing to the inability of the Islamic poor to have a wife, the sexually starving section of the Moslem population have sexual-hunger visions close to maniacal mental states.

In Christendom, universal school education undermined the universal belief (of Dante, for example) in the physical or material existence of Paradise. An Islamic terrorist explained to Ò60 MinutesÓ in 2001 that Islamic suicidal terrorists are motivated by the Paradise of super-earthly splendors they were deprived of in their earthly life, and, above all, of those super-earthly beauties, Òtop-breasted,Ó Òblack-eyed,Ó and virginal again and again in the eternal bridal night.