Because Eco, although the results are the same the motivation (whether you think it haram or not) also includes a different, added dimension.
Also the bombers often cite the need for invaders/crusaders to leave Muslim lands - thus they themselves overtly declare a religious reason. Corrupt or not they mention Islam, the tigers do not mention or invoke their religion. - This is why everyone 'thinks of Islam' when these atrocities occur.
From the Psychiatric Bulletin:
“In the case of the Tamil Tigers, though of Hindu origin, their motives, though nationalistic, have not been essentially religious……
A senior Arab psychiatrist in Gaza, Dr Eyad El-Sarraj, in an unpublished study quoted in a British newspaper (Silver, 2001) concluded (in reference to Arab bombers) that religion was a crucial, but not the only, reason for the phenomenon of martyrdom….
Prior to the ‘suicide’ bombing, a celebration would be arranged, which would be videotaped for subsequent display in a form resembling a religious ritual to sanctify the martyr before his community…..
…a moral and religious imperative based on it being honourable to die for God's cause in the face of oppression….”
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Because Eco, although the results are the same the motivation (whether you think it haram or not) also includes a different, added dimension.
Also the bombers often cite the need for invaders/crusaders to leave Muslim lands - thus they themselves overtly declare a religious reason. Corrupt or not they mention Islam, the tigers do not mention or invoke their religion. - This is why everyone 'thinks of Islam' when these atrocities occur.
From the Psychiatric Bulletin:
“In the case of the Tamil Tigers, though of Hindu origin, their motives, though nationalistic, have not been essentially religious……
A senior Arab psychiatrist in Gaza, Dr Eyad El-Sarraj, in an unpublished study quoted in a British newspaper (Silver, 2001) concluded (in reference to Arab bombers) that religion was a crucial, but not the only, reason for the phenomenon of martyrdom….
Prior to the ‘suicide’ bombing, a celebration would be arranged, which would be videotaped for subsequent display in a form resembling a religious ritual to sanctify the martyr before his community…..
…a moral and religious imperative based on it being honourable to die for God's cause in the face of oppression….”
http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/26/8/285
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."