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fighters living in northern Persia, adopted suicide terrorism as a strategy
to advance the cause of Islam (1). These perpetrators never perceived
their deaths as suicide, rather, they saw them as acts of martyrdom
in the name of the community and for the glory of God.
       But suicide terrorist, both ancient and modern, is not merely
the product of religious fervor. There is no single psychological or
demographic profile of a suicide terrorist. Very often intense struggles
produce several types of people with the potential willingness to
sacrifice themselves for a cause, but no organization can create a
person’s basic readiness to die. The task of recruiters is not to produce
but rather to identify this predisposition in candidates and reinforce
it. Recruiters will often exploit religious beliefs when indoctrinating
would-be-bombers, using their subjects faith in a reward in paradise
to strengthen and solidify preexisting sacrificial motives (2). In addition
to it other powerful motives reinforce tendencies toward martyrdom,
including patriotism, hatred of the enemy, and profound sense of
victimization.
       But the actual weakness of suicide bombers is that they are
nothing more than the instruments of terrorist leaders who expect
their organizations to gain tangible benefits from this shocking tactic.
       The present understanding of the high costs of suicide terrorism
and the growing cooperation among intelligence services worldwide
gives credence to the hope that in the future only desperate
organizations of losers will try to use this tactic on systematic basis.


  Exercises to Part II of the text «Rational Fanatics»

      I. Find the following words and phrases in the text, translate them and
learn them by heart:
      to exist, to advance, community, ancient, to sacrifice, recruiter,
religious beliefs, faith, paradise, intelligence services.
      II. Find English equivalents of the following in the text:
     ñóùåñòâîâàë â òå÷åíèå ìíîãèõ âåêîâ; óæå â XI âåêå; ïðî-
äâèãàòü âïåðåä äåëî èñëàìà; àêò ìó÷åíè÷åñòâà; äðåâíèå è ñî-
âðåìåííûå; ðåëèãèîçíîå âäîõíîâåíèå; ïîæåðòâîâàòü ñîáîé çà
äåëî; âûÿâèòü ïðåäðàñïîëîæåííîñòü êàíäèäàòîâ è óñèëèòü åå;
âåðáîâùèê; ýêñïëóàòèðîâàòü ðåëèãèîçíûå âåðîâàíèÿ áóäóùèõ


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