Why does someone detonate themself in the middle of a wedding?

[ECH1969]

It just doesn't make any sense. :-(

[demgrrrll]

1. Dunno. No clue. No idea at all. I got nothing. eom

,

[spindrifter]

2. They are the sickest of the sick

[stray cat]

3. To kill the people in the wedding for massive effect

[mtowngman]

4. Maybe the idea is not only government, police, military

etc. are targets, but anyone doing anything, ordinary citizens are at risk. Increases the terror factor. I hope that made sense.

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

5. If you are told something your entire life by everyone you know, and you

don't have the opportunity to get educated and learn otherwise, you would most likely accept it as fact. The majority of suicide bombers honestly think they are doing Gods work (sorry Allah's work). They never get an alternative point of view. Think of it like this. After all we know about BushCo, why do some americans still believe he is doing good for our country? Because they are brainwashed to believe thier team is good and our team is evil. Pass em the koolaid

[gratuitous]

6. Probably for the same reason someone would drop bombs on a wedding

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,748300,00.html

I don't expect an apology from the perpetrators of the Jordan atrocity, either.

[necso]

7. It's a type of gathering,

and gatherings can be "productive" targets.

(Maybe this gathering had light security too.)

And it turns a joyous event into one of sadness, pain and terror.

Psywar in a physical form.

But then, maybe you weren't asking about those "leaders" who send out such bombers.

[stillcool]

8. a crowd of people...

in an American hotel makes way too much sense to me. Rage, injustice, and lack of options...There is so much going on in the world today that strikes my soul..making me feel way too much.

[thefloyd]

9. The real question

Why get married at all?

[cigsandcoffee]

10. I haven't been keeping up

Did the bombers intentionally target a wedding? It wasn't just a coincidence?

[madeline_con]

11. Because you're party's under the microscope....

and you need to stoke the fires of fear to rally the neocons.

It can't be done here, it would freak out too many faithful followers, and shut down the economy (people would be afraid to go to Walmart), so it's best if it happens in an "allied" country.

spelling edit

[OldLeftieLawyer]

12. They hated the band?

A jilted lover?

Bad cake?

Too much fruit juice?

The ululating accidentally set off the detonator?

Just guessing .............

[brainshrub]

13. Maybe the bomber had lost a loved one in an act of violence?

And this was the only way that individual felt that justice could be done?

Who knows? :shrug:

[mmonk]

14. fanaticism

It's everywhere. It's in Jordan. It's in Bali. It's in Palestine. It's in America. It's in France.

What makes me sad is that we are participants (Americans). I had hope for the 21st century, but man are we taking steps backward.

I hope there is somewhere where there is no fanaticism, no cause or god or ideology where humans must feel they must kill. I want to go there and take my family.

[cigsandcoffee]

15. They're not just fanatics, but...

religious fanatics - the very worst sort.

[JVS]

16. Target-rich environment

[Hardrada]

30. Good one

Rummie will soon begin to eat those words, I hope.

[Ready4Change]

17. To get attention.

Like in advertising. Even negative publicity attention.

Case in point, YOU'RE thinking about it.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. Maybe this was not their first wedding?

:shrug:

Maybe the chicken dance song was next?

[JVS]

38. The chicken dance is the greatest musical work of the 20th century!

And you can quote me on that!

[soothsayer]

19. I waited until my honeymoon. But it was more emotional than

literal.

[jmatthan]

20. When life appears hopeless all around

a person looks to make his final mark in the world.

Some people have the mental strength to withstand all the stresses and strains around them. Others look for relief in their "religious" values.

Remember the self-immolation of Buddhists.

To solve the problem of suicide bombers you have to solve the idea of hopelessness, which is being exploited by the religious fundamentalists of all religions - not just Islamists.

It is necessary to put in jail all those who sponsor and give cause for the growth of religious fundamentalism.

Bush and Blair are first on my list, along with all those who signed that PNAC letter.

What do you think those who had their families roasted with White Phosphorous at fallujah are likely do - stand quietly and protest and continue to die like flies?

Look inside first before looking outside to condemn people!

I do not agree with the method of suicide bombers - but look where the cause is, not the effect!

[Christa]

21. For the same reason we kill innocents in Iraq

:-(

[jbnow]

25. Not quite

When we call civilians we deny or downplay it. Ours kill but do their best not to be killed.

When they do it they want it seen, they want people to see and to know.Theirs killed knowing they would also die.

Both are horrifying. It is all the more horrible when I hear the administration's comment about the disregard for life and killing of innocents. It rings so hollow, we have no moral standing left, none at all.

Has a large nation ever fallen this far this fast?

[951-Riverside]

22. Because the repukes took a pounding AGAIN and usually this stuff...

happens right after Bush takes a dive.

[ECH1969]

23. So you think Rove was behind it?

[Berserker]

24. I believe a wedding

has nothing to do with what he or she did. They are targets and that's it nothing more. If a person is sick enough to do this kind of thing I don't think they care what is going on.

[pox americana]

27. Well, the "prime suspect" is supposed to be Al-Zarqawi,

who happens to be a top anti-occupation activist in Iraq, so let's just say it's very convenient for the U.S.

Oh, why do they hate us so?

[moddemny]

33. "Because the repukes took a pounding AGAIN and usually this stuff..."

.....happens right after Bush takes a dive"


So you are saying somehow Republicans planned this directly and it is not simply as a consequence of the overall violence in the region?

[aaronnyc]

36. This stuff has been happening consistently for almost 3 years

There is a suicide bombing almost every day in Iraq - I don't see how you can suggest that there is a correlation between attacks on civilians in Iraq and problems for Bush in the U.S.

[northzax]

26. because he's friggin insane

and has been told, by maipulative assholes, that this is a good thing to do.

[applegrove]

28. I'm paraphrasing but someone said the tension between islamofascist

youth being told they have to reject the modern ways and live in the middle ages - and the tension of that while they live in fact in very modern worlds ... gets let out by blowing themselves up.

Was in Gynne Dwyers book.

[Dunedain]

29. To save himself forty years of nagging misery?

No, I agree, senseless.

[Bluebear]

31. Rimshot!

[moddemny]

32. Because he is a low life........

....piece of sh*t.

[WilliamPitt]

34. Religious extremism is the world's most dangerous truth

And it is growing.

In more than one major religion.

This is a war of religious extremists.

Ours send in soldiers to raze Fallujah to the ground.

Theirs blow up weddings.

Which justifies our actions.

Which justifies theirs.

It's a perfect circle.

Hey, you asked.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. I See A Couple Of DUers Took This Thread As An Opportunity To Make Jokes

Can they please tell the rest of us what's so funny about the carnage?


Children...

[sweetheart]

37. Letting go of the detonator button

One of the most disgusting sort of detonation, is when people
indulge in being excessively ignorant, blowing their hatred all
over the room, in little pieces, hoping that they've destroyed all
the intelligence greater than themselves.

And what contempt or racism is this, to believe that by killing yourself,
you've taken political direct action against tyranny, in a way that
puts fear in to its heart, random terror, the sort of thing that eats
away at liberty and goodwill; a khumher rouge tactic.

It seems the skill we lack is restraint, restraint from
blowing themselves up. So maybe the crime is believing in direct
action as much as the pentagon does. And for all the morals painted,
once someone does something like that, there "are" no morals. Just
lots of dead people, lives changed, and souls reincarnated elsewhere.

Even more spooky are cluster bombs where 10000 weddings are attacked
simultaneously, and the bombers liberate all those with romantic
illusions thereby alleviating the world of much suffering and
country music.

What if the culture you were in was so evil, so wrong, that every
single impulse you had was to excape, but on realizing that this
global caliphate is "your" destiny, then to create it, all people
must grow to accept democracy.

[Rex]

39. Because they feel hopeless and rage controls their thought process.

IMO, the rage and hopelessness come from a variety of sources; one being totally brainwashed into blowing oneself up.

[bloom]

40. Don't forget that the US military bombed a wedding reception in Iraq.

It's horrible no matter who does it - or with what weapons.

[Just Me]

41. They believe it's the only way of defending their way of life against,....

,...tyrannical imperialism/colonialism. Their way of life and their resources were attacked first, in their view, and they are compelled to exercise extreme defensive measures.

[NNN0LHI]

42. Because he doesn't have a B-1 Stealth Bomber n/t