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"....Islamists consider suicide as not just legitimate, but highly
commendable when undertaken for reasons of jihad (holy war). Going into
war knowing with the certainty that one will die, they argue, is not
suicide (intihar) but martyrdom (istishhad), a much-praised form of
self-sacrifice in the path of God, a way to win the eternal affection of
the houris in paradise."
"A leading Islamist authority, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, recently explained
the distinction this way: attacks on enemies are not suicide operations,
but ''heroic martyrdom operations'' in which the kamikazes act not ''out
of hopelessness and despair, but are driven by an overwhelming desire to
cast terror and fear into the hearts of the oppressors.''"
"In other words, Islamists find suicide for personal reasons abominable,
suicide for jihad admirable." (D Pipes - Middle East Forum)
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