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 Here's What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS' Motives

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Despite the existence of a good deal of research about terrorism, there’s a gap between the common understanding of what leads terrorists to kill & what many experts believe to be true. Terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are widely seen as being motivated by their radical theology. But according to Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, this view is too simplistic. Pape knows his subject; he & his colleagues have studied every suicide attack in the world since 1980.  He says that religious fervor is not a motive unto itself. Rather, it serves as a tool for recruitment & a potent means of getting people to overcome their fear of death & natural aversion to killing innocents. But, there have been “many hundreds of secular suicide attackers,” which suggests that radical theology alone doesn’t explain terrorist attacks. 
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