Science, Psychology and Spirituality

Dr. Sohai

What makes one to explode as a suicide bomber? Have you studied this as well from psychological point of view?

Re: # 49
Dear Teshah....you have asked a simple but profound question. Your question is inspiring

me to write another column for chowk about the PSYCHOLOGY OF `SUICIDE BOMBERS`.

Let me see if I can articulate my ideas in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for asking an

intellectually stimulating question. Answering it a in a few words will not be fair.

sincerely sohail

ps...by the way your name reminded me of ghalib`s sheyr

teshay baghair mar na saka kohkan asad

sar gashta-e-khumar-e-rasoom-o-qayood tha

Re: # 49
Dear Teshah....you have asked a simple but profound question. Your question is inspiring

me to write another column for chowk about the PSYCHOLOGY OF `SUICIDE BOMBERS`.

Let me see if I can articulate my ideas in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for asking an

intellectually stimulating question. Answering it a in a few words will not be fair.

sincerely sohail

ps...by the way your name reminded me of ghalib`s sheyr

teshay baghair mar na saka kohkan asad

sar gashta-e-khumar-e-rasoom-o-qayood tha

great piece Dr Sohail -- very mind nourishing -- ``God is the state of the mind`` -- a profoundly insightful sentence -- who lives in the right brain -- the Devil is in the details analyst -- that resides in the left brain -- the rest is all a fairy `tail`...

.....thanks for yours and Dr Gill`s such mind stimulating articles.....bless you

tshah -- what makes one to explode one as a suicide bomber -- into thousannd pieces -- each piece growing to become thousand suicicde bombers?....

I will tell you what makes a Terrorist Suicide Bomber explode -- another Mega Terrorist -- with a cowardly smart bomb -- dropped from a distance -- that is not not smart enough to spare the lives of 36 innocent fearful children huddled together in the bosoms of their moms sisters and brothers -- in a bomb shelter -- and then blown into thousand pieces....

That is Terror on mega scale -- killing in hundreds and thousands -- the Terrorist escapes unscathed unseeingly and unseenly -- with an immaculately clean and clear Judeo-Christian conscience -- without PAYING for his SINS -- of murdering innocent civilians in droves -- with his life.

Whereas a pathetic loner suicide bomber -- brings terror -- on the same but fewer innocent women and children -- on the MICRO scale -- at too close quarters to its victims for Western moral comforts -- but is `decent` enough to PAY for his SINS with his own life -- right there on the very same spot.....along with his innocent victims.

yet in the Kafkaesque world of upside down Western morality -- the lone paying-with-his-own-life suicide-bomber is a loathsome morally inferior Terrorist -- than the nonpaying, free-loading -- technologically sophisticated -- mass murdering from a `respectable` distance -- a Mega Terrorist -- of the likes of George Bushs and Ehud Olmerts......is definitely -- a morally superior Terrorist?.....how and why?

Interesting...isn`t it...?...now Dr. Sohail can take over.....

Re: # 50

Dear Dr. Sohail

Thank you dear Sohail for your appreciation for a simple question of mine which boggles the minds of many
people who think objectively and scientifically like you. I shall eagerly await you promised article on the subject before I venture to offer my humble views in the matter.

I am also thankful for your associating my nickname with a couplet of the great Ghalib, whom I consider an ‘Arif’ and my ‘Peer ustaad’.

BTW,teshah (hammer) was used by Qeis both for costruction and distruction, but the ‘root cause’ in either case was the same, i.e, Ishq. That ishq, in case of a suicide bomber, who uses a weapon, say dynamite, which can also be used both ways and is bound obviously also by ‘rasoom-o-qayyood’ which may be taken in his case as the ‘obscurantist culture’, symbolized by heaven and ‘hoors’, etc .

Here I quote another couplet from Ghalib about ‘Kohkan’:-

“Qad-o-geisu mein Qeis-o-kohkan ki aazimaaish he
(Aur) Jahaan ham hein wahaan daar-o-rasan ki aazmaaish he”

Here Ghalib differentiates between the ‘ishq’ of Kohkan, which makes you kill yourself and the real ishq against which even puts ‘daar-o-rasan’ to test. And how beautifully Ghalib put it.

Re: # 54

Sorry, I have invertantly mentioned the name of `Qeis` instead of `Farhaad` called the `Kohkan` in the first line of the third para of my post at #54 .

Re: # 53

nasah

Your moralistic indignation is understandable dear Nasah but I don`t think any body has the licence to kill the innocent even if he cares little for his own life or hopes to go to heaven by performing that `jihad` and being called a `shaheed`.

Do you think Jihadi bombers have conscience when they do not spare even the innocent people praying in their mosques just for the sectarian differences? The judo-christian bombers, how cynical it may look, can have at least some solace by the `fact` that they are not killing people to send them to hell but are only sending them to heaven. What a cruel, cynical and weird logic all these bombers can have to numb their conscience!