The BBC Arabic article claimed “fanatic Jews” fighting Roman invaders in ancient Jerusalem were the first example of suicide bombers.

  • what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Suicidal military missions” are quite different from terrorism. What a silly attempt at an analogy.

    That said. Terrorism is far from uniquely a Muslim tactic - it’s quite effective and had been used extensively in the past over and over again.

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    1 year ago

    BBC Arabic performing a staggering amount of mental gymnastics attempting to justify that opinion. What’s even the goal? Excusing radical Islamic bombings because “The Jews did it first!”??

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      1 year ago

      Did you read the original? On the anniversary of 9/11 they published a side article talking about a timeline of suicide attacks throughout history. The Jewish far right objected that they were listed among the others (even though they literally celebrate those fanatics).

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    Even further back than that. The Bible celebrates Samson committing a suicide attack on the Philistines. The Jewish far right praises modern Israeli terrorists like Baruch Goldstein by comparing them to Samson.

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        1 year ago

        I did read the article, and my comment stands.

        Despite the clickbait and predictable outrage from the far right, the BBC originally published l an article titled “the story of suicide bombers throughout history: From the fanatical Jews, through the assassins, to the jihadists.” Suicide attacks go back as far as the Bible, as I said above.