Just a thought - Do any other sect/religion/terrorists other than Muslims use suicide bombers to kill people?

Question

Try to be sensible - if I want daft answers I'll think of my own!

Answer 1

1. Yes. You should have been able to think of some examples quite easily for yourself.

2. If you had even undertaken some research, you would have discovered that it was the Tamil Tigers that began the current trend of suicide bombing. Here is what the BBC says: "The Tamil Tigers pioneered the art of suicide bombing with scores of assassinations of prominent politicians in Sri Lanka, as well as former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2516263.stm

3. Here are various BBC reports of suicide bombings by the Tamil Tigers.
February 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/654033.stm
June 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/790184.stm
August 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/883043.stm
September 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/925781.stm
November 2001 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1657343.stm

4. More than 80% of Tamils are Hindu, by the way.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tamil.html

5. You are also wrong to view suicide bombings as necessarily connected to the furtherance of a religious viewpoint. Here is a comment that a more enlightened person has posted on the internet. " There's a faulty premise in the current strategy on the war on terrorism. That faulty premise is that suicide terrorism and al- Qaida suicide terrorism in particular is mainly driven by an evil ideology Islamic fundamentalism independent of other circumstances.

"However, the facts are that since 1980, suicide terrorist attacks from around the world over half have been secular. What over 95% of suicide attacks around the world [are about] is not religion, but a specific strategic purpose - to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly and this is, in fact, a centrepiece of al-Qaida's strategic logic, which is to compel the United States and western countries to abandon military commitments on the Arabian peninsula."
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/11/what_really_motivates_suicide_bombers.html

6. If you had really thought about it, you would have realised that there are plenty of examples from history of people willing to give up their life in order to kill others. One example is the Japanese Kamikaze pilots.
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/index.htm