Feminist Peace Network

The reasons that women choose to become suicide bombers are complex.  But it is clear that their motivations are somewhat different than those of men.  Time Magazine examines the phenomena and offers this chilling explanation:

“It is doubtful that all–or even most–of those Palestinian women who sign up to become martyrs do so voluntarily. Some fall prey to male recruiters, who approach them on campus or through Internet chat rooms, making romantic advances that the women fall for. Many other women point to “secret reasons” that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend. As a female student from Birzeit University says, “I’d rather spend my life in an Israeli prison than trapped with a husband that I didn’t love.”"

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