It seems that too often people try to look at these things from too secular of a view point. If you do not believe in God that is just fine, but these people do. That is the point. It isn't about past events that make them willing to do these things. They believe that this life is temporary, and that if they die to please Allah then they have their one-way ticket to heaven in their pockets. Let us look back a few years to an incident that lead to America's entry into WWII. Remember the Japanese Kamikaze fighters? They also had no regard for their own lives. Why? Because the Emperor claimed to be god and they believed they would be greatly rewarded in the next life for their sacrifice in this life. You don't get atheists to commit suicide in this manner, when you believe this life is all there is, then you don't willingly throw it away to achieve an ends you won't be part of. That is why we never had this problem with the Communists. Remember MAD? Mutual Assured Destruction. They had nuclear weapons aimed at the U.S. and the U.S. had nuclear weapons aimed at them, the idea of MAD was they fired on the U.S. the U.S. would fire back on them assuring the mutual destruction of both parties. Therefore it would not have benefited either party to fire on the other. You know what is scary? MAD doesn't work with these new threats. You can be sure that if they obtain nuclear weapons they are going to use them regardless of the knowledge that the U.S. may also use them. Because in their minds, this life isn't the end. It is easy to understand why the home grown terrorists do what they do. They too are Muslims and have the same beliefs. If they can be taught to believe that this life is not the end and that they will be given great rewards for their sacrifices, then there is no limit to what they might do.

Please don't think I am anti-Muslim or anything. I don't know if we have any Muslims in these forums or not, I have nothing against them. I have good friends who are Muslims and they are completely against all these attacks. I am not trying to stereotype and make them all out to be people willing to strap dynamite on their chests.