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Opinion
Brussels Attacks: Why Europe?
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?
People chant and sing songs at the Place De La Bourse in honour of the victims of yesterdays' terror attacks, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 23, 2016. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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.
