Did I say these issues were not an influencing factor? No.
However suicide bombings are the result of religious belief. No one martyrs themselves if they do not have the utmost conviction in God and the afterlife.
When people with rational beliefs disagree they discuss/debate the issues, not kill hundreds of innocent people. When people hold irrational beliefs, belief not on evidence, such as "my God is the only true God" there is no way to settle the dispute other than to kill each other. The Koran clearly calls for infidels to be killed, and the more you believe in and dignify the book, the more likely you are going to carry out its content.
Look at the 9/11 hijackers, many of which were well educated to university level and not persecuted…. Mohammed Atta (an Egyptian) had a degree in architecture; both Majed Mashaan Moqed (a Saudi) and Satam M. A. al-Suqami (a Saudi) were law students while Ziad Samir Jarrah (a Lebanese) was born to a wealthy family.
The thing that links all these people was not lack of education, or nationalism, but their utter conviction in their religious belief and their hate for non-followers of said beliefs.
I support all peace processes. Rational discourse on all levels will get us there.
However suicide bombings are the result of religious belief. No one martyrs themselves if they do not have the utmost conviction in God and the afterlife.
When people with rational beliefs disagree they discuss/debate the issues, not kill hundreds of innocent people. When people hold irrational beliefs, belief not on evidence, such as "my God is the only true God" there is no way to settle the dispute other than to kill each other. The Koran clearly calls for infidels to be killed, and the more you believe in and dignify the book, the more likely you are going to carry out its content.
Look at the 9/11 hijackers, many of which were well educated to university level and not persecuted…. Mohammed Atta (an Egyptian) had a degree in architecture; both Majed Mashaan Moqed (a Saudi) and Satam M. A. al-Suqami (a Saudi) were law students while Ziad Samir Jarrah (a Lebanese) was born to a wealthy family.
The thing that links all these people was not lack of education, or nationalism, but their utter conviction in their religious belief and their hate for non-followers of said beliefs.
I support all peace processes. Rational discourse on all levels will get us there.