In Islam, committing suicide is considered as a major sin and the person committing suicide has to face damnation and the wrath of Allah in the Hereafter. Indeed, Allah forbids paradise for him. According to the Quran there is nothing more precious than life.
Will the actual Gaza strip people admire this protest?
On the one hand because Islamists purposefully misinterpret the message of Allah.
On the other hand it has an extremely complicated historical development that cannot be understood without western imperialism in the Middle East. I can recommend the documentary Hypernormalisation that gives a very rough overview of how it came to be in the larger context of failing western imperialism and the hypocricsy of modern politics.
I would not consider christianity to do so in a milder form. For instance Christianity still has a missionary mission, which is not relevant in Islam. While Islam has been encouraging science and research, Christianity has been strongly rejecting it, etc.
Christianity suffers from two main problems in this regard. The first being that the Bible is a political collection of various stories of the Gospel and time after. The second being the long time between Jesus lifetime and the first written reports. This is fundamentally different to Islam, where not only the revelation, but also the life of the prophet Mohammed are well documented and preserved. The Quran is still in its original text and translations are from the direct arabic source. If you read an english bible it was translated from latin by some guy in the middle ages, and the latin version is a few hundred years older, but was translated from old greek, which was translated from older aramaic writings. it is impossible to be a true to the bible christian, because there is hundreds of different versions and they are all representing a political motive in one way or the other. Core concepts of christianity, like Jesus being the literal son of god and the concept of trinity didnt exist until hundreds of years after, when the church wanted to find a way to make christianity more digestible for pagans. Even the core christian holidays, Easter and Christmas are just rebranded pagan holidays using pagan themes.
My favorite verse in the bible is ‘I make my arrows drunk with blood’
Most people dont realise the ancient jewish culture was poly theistic for a long time before writing stuff down became popular. Yaweh was just their war god. That is why the first commandment says ‘you shall have no other gods before me’ because, they had other gods, just Yaweh became the ‘god of gods’ because Jews (and everyone else to be fair) were a nation of bloodthirsty warmongering expansionists at the time. But Im not afraid of sad little Yaweh, he lost because the opposing army had chariots before and I have a car.
In the present day, Islamist terrorists use suicide bombs because it is basically their best tactic for getting the other side to start shooting women and children and seeing every single person as a potential deadly threat. It causes their targets to often restrict their own freedoms (9/11 anyone?) The overall idea is a death by 1000 cuts. They know they cant take on the USA in a toe to toe battle, no one can, USA can delete any country they want (not without consequence but my point is USA holds every advantage in an oldschool war) so they dont do that. Instead what wahhabists try to do is get the USA to embroil itself in forever wars to drain them financially and psycologically. This also wont work, because the country who’s currency has become the worlds main way to store wealth and transact buisness can just make more forever as long as it isnt too much at one time, and a comfortable populace doesnt revolt over a few thousand soldiers dying 3000 miles away if its for revenge. Heck we dont revolt over a few thousand homeless people dying needlessly every year. There is very much is enough to go around, but it cant, must sit in investment portfolio instead.
Notice how Hamas and co. dont often suicide bomb Isreal? Its because the IDF doesnt need encouragment to shoot women and children, IDF and zionists already love doing it, they joke about it and enjoy it much like teenagers on a farm shooting gophers. Ghouls!
Will the actual Gaza strip people admire this protest?
Wait, ao why are suicide bombers so popular in terrorist groups?
On the one hand because Islamists purposefully misinterpret the message of Allah.
On the other hand it has an extremely complicated historical development that cannot be understood without western imperialism in the Middle East. I can recommend the documentary Hypernormalisation that gives a very rough overview of how it came to be in the larger context of failing western imperialism and the hypocricsy of modern politics.
I mean, thinking about it, christianity - albeit in a milder form - also misinterprets the bible to say what benefits them.
I would not consider christianity to do so in a milder form. For instance Christianity still has a missionary mission, which is not relevant in Islam. While Islam has been encouraging science and research, Christianity has been strongly rejecting it, etc.
Christianity suffers from two main problems in this regard. The first being that the Bible is a political collection of various stories of the Gospel and time after. The second being the long time between Jesus lifetime and the first written reports. This is fundamentally different to Islam, where not only the revelation, but also the life of the prophet Mohammed are well documented and preserved. The Quran is still in its original text and translations are from the direct arabic source. If you read an english bible it was translated from latin by some guy in the middle ages, and the latin version is a few hundred years older, but was translated from old greek, which was translated from older aramaic writings. it is impossible to be a true to the bible christian, because there is hundreds of different versions and they are all representing a political motive in one way or the other. Core concepts of christianity, like Jesus being the literal son of god and the concept of trinity didnt exist until hundreds of years after, when the church wanted to find a way to make christianity more digestible for pagans. Even the core christian holidays, Easter and Christmas are just rebranded pagan holidays using pagan themes.
My favorite verse in the bible is ‘I make my arrows drunk with blood’
Most people dont realise the ancient jewish culture was poly theistic for a long time before writing stuff down became popular. Yaweh was just their war god. That is why the first commandment says ‘you shall have no other gods before me’ because, they had other gods, just Yaweh became the ‘god of gods’ because Jews (and everyone else to be fair) were a nation of bloodthirsty warmongering expansionists at the time. But Im not afraid of sad little Yaweh, he lost because the opposing army had chariots before and I have a car.
In the present day, Islamist terrorists use suicide bombs because it is basically their best tactic for getting the other side to start shooting women and children and seeing every single person as a potential deadly threat. It causes their targets to often restrict their own freedoms (9/11 anyone?) The overall idea is a death by 1000 cuts. They know they cant take on the USA in a toe to toe battle, no one can, USA can delete any country they want (not without consequence but my point is USA holds every advantage in an oldschool war) so they dont do that. Instead what wahhabists try to do is get the USA to embroil itself in forever wars to drain them financially and psycologically. This also wont work, because the country who’s currency has become the worlds main way to store wealth and transact buisness can just make more forever as long as it isnt too much at one time, and a comfortable populace doesnt revolt over a few thousand soldiers dying 3000 miles away if its for revenge. Heck we dont revolt over a few thousand homeless people dying needlessly every year. There is very much is enough to go around, but it cant, must sit in investment portfolio instead.
Notice how Hamas and co. dont often suicide bomb Isreal? Its because the IDF doesnt need encouragment to shoot women and children, IDF and zionists already love doing it, they joke about it and enjoy it much like teenagers on a farm shooting gophers. Ghouls!
Hamas would still use suicide bombings if they didn’t know doing so would prevent their lawfare tactics and sympathy seeking.
You know what? Thats a strong and logical point you make there. Warefare is evolving, and like tech its going to speed up the rate of change