The smarter bomb
Subtitle: women and children as suicide bombers
By: Anat Berko
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781442219526; 9781442219540
Subjects: Child suicide bombers; Psychology; Martyrdom; Islam; Women suicide bombers; Arab-Israeli conflict; Suicide bombers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Daniel Pipes; title: Preface; title: Introduction: "good enough to die, not good enough to marry"; title: "Just as long as the girl doesn't make a mistake"; title: Hamas deputy prime minister : "Whoever sends a woman to commit suicide is gahel (ignorant)"; title: The engineer : "A virgin in paradise is like a little girl"; title: Shariah judge: "Women lack two things : intelligence and religion"; title: The adolescent terrorist : "You go to jail, you can study for your matriculation exams, you get special considerations if you are in jail"; title: Brother and sister, suicide bombers; title: Special bonuses for each and every shaheed; title: Terrorist to her dispatcher : "Why did you betray me? : you know i love you"; title: Clerics on women in the terrorist industry : "What will she get in paradise, a couple of virgins?"; title: Salima, mother of seven : "My husband only thinks about himself, I don't love him."; title: Nawal, Palestinian knife-wielder : "Jail in Israel is better than the hell at home."; title: Women under interrogation; title: How to talk to terrorists; title: Arab lawyer : "Every woman involved in terrorism is a romantic."; title: Nabil, dispatcher of terrorists : "A pity i sent her to blow herself up, she could have given birth to three men like me."; title: Afterword: disrobe for an attack : the shaheeda as heroine?; title: Acknowledgements; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography.