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Iraq and Afghanistan

The Rising Number of Female Suicide Bombers in Iraq

Terrorists recruit women who can slip through security checkpoints

Posted July 28, 2008

Reader Comments

Education

This is exactly why you continue a relentless campaign against education! It is extremely difficult to brainwash an educated mind especially into killing themselves. The more women who are forced to forego an education the more recruits you have who can be brainwashed into mindless savagery.Because many young men remain uneducated they have always been in the lead when it comes to being good brainwashing material(look no further than our own country to see how this holds true!)

female suicide bombers

Iraq just witnssed its 34th female suicide bombing recently. Some like to blame religious extremism for these attacks, but they were basically unknown before 2008. The reason why there are so many this year is because the insurgents have lost much of their base amongst the Sunnis and the foreign fighters have dried up that use to carry out suicide attacks. In a male dominated movement, the Islamists have been forced to turn to women to carry out attacks. According to Iraqi intelligence there are three clerics who organize these women. Most are based in Diyala province. These attacks are a sign of desperation by the insurgents to keep up attacks in a losing effort as well as their ability to adapt to a changing battlefield. For more see: http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-year-of-female-suicide-bomber.html

female suicide bombers

women as suicide bombers/soldiers/whatever you want to call them are a recipe for disaster.

men are generally the fighters and when they die they can be replaced by women.

when women die especially of childbearing age all the children they might have

had will never be born.

the end result is a major sex imbalance that could imperil any society.

think of china and its one child policy which led to the abortion of girl babies

because the one child was preferred to have been a male. there is a big imbalance of the sexes is china. same thing in russia but for different reasons.

the taliban has a long way to go before they wipe out islam but if they convince

enough women to blow themselves up they will certainly change their world and not in the way they intended.

Misbeliefs know no gender!

Has in any religion in any part of the world there are always going to be those who can have their thinking bent to conform to some extremists thoughts. Mush of the extremist thought is espoused at Fri.noc prayers, even though separated the same message is heard by all so is it any wonder that some extremist thought gets through to the young and often disconnected.Many textbooks in Islamic schools i.e. Saudi Arabia still espouse some form of extremism to this day. It is said that old men start and make wars but only the young die in them. Which is why we won't be hearing of Imams or pretty much anyone over 40 blowing themselves up. Another note the extremists had long ago found out how to take advantage of Islamic values and were dressing like women to travel around cities undetected knowing that no one will look at them closely or touch them. Since full autopsies and DNA testing are seldom allowed to be done by us how can the person who has blown themselves to bits be identified has male or female except by bits of clothing!

Re Islam and female terrorism

It is all about people and their culture a sick society,run by degenerate leaders will soon create lots of sickness and death, it is all very natural,when the present leaders are replaced by more humanistic ones we will have a more rational society and more normal relationships...right now we will have to wait until the present leaders get what is comming to them....cordially, Steve...

How about the Imam carrying his own bombs and blowing himself up. These Imams are a bunch of cowards who hide behind their religon and encourage other innocents to sacrifice themselves. I'm sorry but a religon that preaches this type of terror at the sacrifice of its apostolates is just wrong, dead wrong.

Go to the source

Every time there's an attack like this, if there's enough pieces of the actors left to identify them, the question must be asked - who was the imam? Which mosque? Which sect? Which country? What were the specific beliefs of the person/people involved? Where did they learn to hate, and to kill innocents?

Rather than bombing Iran, maybe Israel should bomb the television studios where they film the 'Jew hater' shows aimed at Muslim children in the middle east (and, via satellite, the world)

No end likely

As we go from 6.3 billion people upward, with technology recording each attack, there is not going to be a shortage of people who can be recruited to be walking bombs. This is a sad reality.

OF COURSE we should expect the supposed "honor" of Muslim men would not allow women to be used this way. And, OF COURSE, we'd be naively wrong about that.

Technology instead of bullets? Nyaaaa

What about airport type walk-thru devices that detect weapons under your clothing. I can't imagine it being beyond modern science to detect bombs being worn under women's clothing. We can't divert just a sliver of defense spending toward this? These women are bombs! (Sorry Maam, didn't mean to be offensive.)

well.. what if..

the terrorists use babies as a sucide bombers????

it could be real...

no one could expect that baby bomber, who is armed accurately

with tons of bomb, cries and expodes itself...

that's scary

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