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Suicide bombers and terrorists represent the dawn of a third world war, and must be fought as enemy combatants, if peace is to be achieved.

Table of Contents

Selected worldwide case incidents ix Preface: This may be a politically incorrect books, but it is unshakable in supporting life for all people xiii Acknowledgments xxvii 1. How can they do it? 1 2. Suicide bombing and its growing place in the world today 11 3. Contradictory image meanings of suicide bombings 26 4. Are suicide bombers a proper subject of psychology? 55 5. The ultimate existential meaning of suicide bombings: The killing of human life 79 6. Facing the dangerous future of civilization honestly 100 7. Is it right to fear and condemn all Muslims? (Of course not!) 127 8. Promoting a new worldwide constituency for human life and making suicide bombing unattractive and unacceptable 148 9. A Proposal for a "Worldwide Campaign for Life" by the leaders of many religions and other world leaders and heroes 166 Afterword: Inshallah 190 Representative Suicide Bombings around the World and a Conclusion: Suicide Bombing Is a Redefinition of the Legitimacy of Virtually All Killing 193 Notes 215 Bibliography 257 Index 269

About the Author

I. W. Charny is a renowned psychologist, and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide, (ABC-Clio). He is the executive director of the Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, and Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Suicide bombing, argues Charny, is a product of an Islamic fundamentalist Culture of Death that is at war with a Judeo-Christian Culture of Life. Proceeding from this basic premise, he explores the psychology of suicide bombing and tends to what he thinks are its implications. Thus suicide bombers become a pathological aspect of Islam that needs to be confronted with a spiritual battle over values (which includes limiting the speech of those Muslims thought to be promoting the Culture of Death), as well as police-military force.
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