... of the Japanese, Tamil and Palestinian suicide bombers were as distinct as the contexts in which they operated. But if I understood the professor's point correctly, their recruiters had much in common. Each found ways of commanding the loyalty of young people only to persuade them that a meaningful death would be better than a pointless life. Everyone talks about the ''sophistication'' of the ... . Again and again and again. The scene in the mosque had offered a topographical map of an Islam that was placid, for the most part, serious-minded about its precepts and etiquette but easily ro...

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