Re: [metatuning] Iraq Boosts Suicide Bomber Payment

No one blows themselves up for 25,000 dollars.

"X. J .Scott" wrote:

> [This is pretty weird and certainly would classify
> the government of Iraq and the 'charities' in Saudia
> Arabia and Qatar as terrorist organizations since
> they are paying big cash for the bombings. That
> they are encouraging suicide which is prohibited by the
> Koran shows that they not only htave no respect
> whatsoever for Islam, but must deeply hate the
> Palestinians to want to pay them to kill themselves.
> Of course we know from the history of the region that
> the Arabs deeply hate and oppress the Palestitians,
> while sadistically manipulating them for the political
> power goals of the psychotic Arabian despots.]

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> No one blows themselves up for 25,000 dollars.

Do you think that they don't blow themselves up,

or that their family doesn't get the $25k?

or that the reward money is not part of the
motivation?

I recall that the average income there is quite low -
was just looking at it at the WorldBank site - was it
$1500 annual per capita income? So 25k from Saddam and
10k from SA and 5k from who knows who else could amount
to $40k - possibly a *lifetime's* income. Couple that
with life that is miserable living under a fascist
regime where there are few freedoms and daily
saturation of hate news directed at 'the enemy' and
toss in a promise of glory and eternal bliss and
approval by a divinity, and for a lot of young people
there isn't much else to look forward to other than
ritual suicide.

- J