by
Bob Moore at rl.moore@cox.net
on 8 August 2006
As first prioity,
we need to get our national security to include recognition of the total
threat. I believe the threat is as descibed in the Q and A's below.
We had better do this in the coming elections or it may be too late.
On July 15, 2005, MSNBC's "Connected" program discussed the
July 7th London attacks.
One of the guests was Pierre Rehov (www.pierrerehov.com)
, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the intifada
by going undercover in the Palestinian areas. Pierre's upcoming film,
"Suicide Killers," is based on interviews that he conducted
with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt
to find out why they do it. Pierre agreed to a request for a Q&A
interview here about his work on the new film.
Q -
What inspired you to produce "Suicide Killers," your seventh
film?
A - I started working with victims of suicide attacks to make a
film on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) when I became fascinated
with the personalities of those who had committed those crimes, as they
were described again and again by their victims. Especially the fact
that suicide bombers are all smiling one second before they blow themselves
up.
Q - Why is this film especially important?
A - People don't understand the devastating culture behind this unbelievable
phenomenon. My film is not politically correct because it addresses
the real problem, showing the real face of Islam. It points the finger
against a culture of hatred in which the uneducated are brainwashed
to a level where their only solution in life becomes to kill themselves
and kill others in the name of a God whose word, as transmitted by other
men, has become their only certitude.
Q - What insights did you gain from making this film? What do
you know that other experts do not know?
A - I came to the conclusion that we are facing a neurosis at the level
of an entire civilization. Most neuroses have in common a dramatic event,
generally linked to an unacceptable sexual behavior.. In this case,
we are talking of kids living all their lives in pure frustration, with
no opportunity to experience sex, love, tenderness or even understanding
from the opposite sex. The separation between men and women in Islam
is absolute. So is contempt toward women, who are totally dominated
by men. This leads to a situation of pure anxiety, in which normal behavior
is not possible. It is no coincidence that suicide killers are mostly
young men dominated subconsciously by an overwhelming libido that they
not only cannot satisfy but are afraid of, as if it is the work of the
devil. Since Islam describes heaven as a place where everything on Earth
will finally be allowed, and promises 72 virgins to those frustrated
kids, killing others and killing themselves to reach this redemption
becomes their only solution.
Q - What was it like to interview would-be suicide bombers,
their families and survivors of suicide bombings?
A - It was a fascinating and a terrifying experience. You are dealing
with seemingly normal people with very nice manners who have their own
logic, which to a certain extent can make sense since they are so convinced
that what they say is true. It is like dealing with pure craziness,
like interviewing people in an asylum, since what they say, is for them,
the absolute truth. I hear a mother saying "Thank God, my son is
dead." Her son had became a shaheed, a martyr, which for her was
a greater source of pride than if he had became an engineer, a doctor
or a winner of the Nobel Prize.
This system of values works completely backwards since their interpretation
of Islam worships death much more than life. You are facing people whose
only dream, only achievement goal is to fulfill what they believe to
be their destiny, namely to be a Shaheed or the family of a shaheed.
They don't see the innocent being killed, they only see the impure that
they have to destroy.
Q - You say suicide bombers experience a moment of absolute
power, beyond punishment. Is death the ultimate power?
A - Not death as an end, but death as a door opener to the after life.
They are seeking the reward that God has promised them. They work for
God, the ultimate authority, above all human laws. They therefore experience
this single delusional second of absolute power, where nothing bad can
ever happen to them, since they become God's sword.
Q - Is there a suicide bomber personality profile? Describe
the psychopathology.
A - Generally kids between 15 and 25 bearing a lot of complexes, generally
inferiority complexes. They must have been fed with religion. They usually
have a lack of developed personality. Usually they are impressionable
idealists. In the western world they would easily have become drug addicts,
but not criminals. Interestingly, they are not criminals since they
don't see good and evil the same way that we do. If they had been raised
in an Occidental culture, they would have hated violence. But they constantly
battle against their own death anxiety. The only solution to this deep-seated
pathology is to be willing to die and be rewarded in the afterlife in
Paradise.
Q - Are
suicide bombers principally motivated by religious conviction?
A - Yes, it is their only conviction. They don't act to gain a territory
or to find freedom or even dignity. They only follow Allah, the supreme
judge, and what He tells them to do.
Q -
Do all Muslims interpret jihad and martyrdom in the same way?
A - All Muslim believers believe that, ultimately, Islam will prevail
on earth. They believe this is the only true religion and there is no
room, in their mind, for interpretation. The main difference between
moderate Muslims and extremists is that moderate Muslims don't think
they will see the absolute victory of Islam during their lifetime, therefore
they respect other beliefs. The extremists believe that the fulfillment
of the Prophecy of Islam and ruling the entire world as described in
the Koran, is for today. Each victory of Bin Laden convinces 20 million
moderate Muslims to become extremists.
Q - Describe the culture that manufactures suicide bombers.
A - Oppression, lack of freedom, brain washing, organized poverty, placing
God in charge of daily life, total separation between men and women,
forbidding sex, giving women no power whatsoever, and placing men in
charge of family honor, which is mainly connected to their women's behavior.
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