Suicide Bombers – Are They Also Victims?

Once again we hear of another suicide attack against innocent victims.  Suicide bombers blew themselves up at the Marriott Hotel and the nearby Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta yesterday, killing themselves and 9 other people and injuring over 40 others. The twin suicide bombing attacks in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital at around 8 a.m. yesterday caught hotel security personnel by surprise.

The victims of the suicide bombers also did not expect the attacks to take place. And the result?  Families are grieving, some mourning, others hoping for the best as loved ones are treated in hospital for injuries.  But family units are not the only ones affected.  Corporations are also affected, as staff (some of whom are senior staff members) are either dead or injured.

Who are these suicide bombers?  Why do they agree to voluntarily blow themselves up, and taking innocent victims with them in death?  What goes through their minds in the minutes before they detonated the bombs? What motivates them?  Don’t suicide bombers feel sorry for the innocent victims and their families? 

Generally speaking, suicide bombers are not loners.  They belong to some organization.  Some suicide bombers do it for ideological reasons, others for personal reasons.  But it is almost certain that the leaders of the organizations that recruited them must have brainwashed them into believing a lie, so much so that they truly believe that they are actually doing right when they do wrongful things.  In this connection, are they not also victims themselves?

But why can’t suicide bombers see through a lie?  If the reward for martyrdom is so great, why don’t the leaders themselves be the first to volunteer for suicide bombing missions?  So think about it, suicide bombers – are they also victims themselves?  If so, why be a victim?

Earlier posts:

Assisted Suicide
Suicide
Have You Been Thinking Of Your Own Death?