What goes on in the mind of a suicide bomber? What motivates someone to spend their last day on the planet blowing up complete strangers? Bad enough, perhaps, if the strangers in question are soldiers, police, or other representatives of the state. But holidaymakers and commuters?
It takes a special sort of alienation, radicalization, and dehumanization to think that the people standing next to you in the check-in line merit being randomly dismembered.
It takes a special sort of alienation, radicalization, and dehumanization to think that the people standing next to you in the check-in line merit being randomly dismembered.