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Specific sects of radical Islamists believe one of the surest ways into heaven is to die a "pure death" or as a martyr for Islam. Hence suicide bombers and dudes running towards much more heavily armed troops with an RPG or AK.how do you know that?You do realize most terrorist go in WANTING to die right?it's more about the fear the bad guys will have of an armed civilian population
NY Times ran a piece yesterday called "The Jihadist in our family" about a respected Malaysian religious teacher who went to Syria specifically to die a martyr.
Most terrorists are perfectly sane people. They just had different religious and moral teachings than you and I. You grow up believing if you take communion in church that's all you need to get into heaven. They genuinely believe if they die in the name of this specific cause they're shoo ins too.
I mean the medal of honor is almost exclusively handed out to soldiers who die in the line of duty. It's a posthumous honor that doesn't mean anything to the dead person but to his family friends it's nice to think they died for something worthy.
The idea of martyrdom and guaranteed providence isn't too far off from that. Want to convince people to do something life threatening? Convince the family and society they leave behind it was worth it and make up a reward to show them. Hence... virgins and heaven.
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