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Själv mords terro rismens logik
"Det är ockupationen, inte fundamentalismen."
Terroristexperten Robert Pape, professor vid Chicago universitet, USA, har kommit med en ny bok Dying to Win -- The Logic of Suicide Terrorism där han går igenom alla självmordsattacker mellan 1980 och början av 2000-talet. I en intervju i The American Conservative berättar han bl.a. följande om sina fynd och slutsatser:
"Islamic fundamentalism is not as closely associated with suicide terrorism as many people think. The world leader in suicide terrorism is a group that you may not be familiar with: the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
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The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaignover 95 percent of all the incidentshas had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.
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Since suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation and not Islamic fundamentalism, the use of heavy military force to transform Muslim societies over there, if you would, is only likely to increase the number of suicide terrorists coming at us.
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If Islamic fundamentalism were the pivotal factor, then we should see some of the largest Islamic fundamentalist countries in the world, like Iran, which has 70 million peoplethree times the population of Iraq and three times the population of Saudi Arabiawith some of the most active groups in suicide terrorism against the United States. However, there has never been an al-Qaeda suicide terrorist from Iran, and we have no evidence that there are any suicide terrorists in Iraq from Iran."
Det är alltså dags att avskriva teorin om att islamisk fundamentalism skulle ha någon avgörande inverkan vad gäller självmordsterrorism
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Skrivet av Grottis, 2006-10-02 02:44
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