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...funeral home. But as Rivera’s personal investigation into Olga María’s murder progresses, her thoughts gain a more narrow urgency. Rivera’s postulations span entire pages, as she weaves possible explanations for what has occurred, evoking the terror and despair of El Salvador in the wake of violence...
...personal despair, rage, hatred, belief in paradise or having been brainwashed. We also assume that their actions are completely irrational and destructive. What we need to look at, in order to correct these misconceptions, is the martyr's discourse and the rituals that surround religiously sanctioned suicide terror...
...there no suicide terror among Christian or Jewish groups who have suffered injustice? Or among African Americans in the 20th century? The reason that I explore in my book is that Christianity and Judaism have evolved a very powerful tradition of comedy that undermines the heroic stature of someone who presumed to be the Messiah. And in some ways, the suicide bomber is someone who says, "I'm like the Messiah, my martyrdom is so great that what I'm doing for the community is like what Hussein...
...become a Don Quixote. Don Quixote thinks he is a great character but everyone else thinks of him as a fool. It would turn the martyr into somebody who presumes way too much about himself. It wouldn't eliminate terrorists but it would undermine the culture that promotes suicide terror...
...American living in Israel has been arrested and charged with a string of terror attacks over more than a decade against Arab, gay and leftist targets. Israeli police describe Yaakov (Jack) Teitel as a Jewish extremist and say he is responsible for the murder of two Palestinians in 1997 and a pair of bombings that left a professor and a 15-year-old boy wounded, among other crimes. Teitel's Oct. 7 arrest was made public on Nov. 1; police say they found a weapons laboratory at his West Bank home and a weapons cache nearby. His attorney says...