Suicide is an act that, in one form or another, is seen in every society. Over time, it has taken on new forms, and we can now see several distinct types:
Individual suicide, carried out due to personal problems or mental pressure.
Collective suicide, when a group of people agree to end their lives together.
Suicide attacks, where the goal is not only to take one’s own life, but also to target others.
Let’s focus on suicide attacks. Looking at the psychology of suicide bombers, most of Muslims firmly believe that this world is temporary, the real life is in jannah, and there they will be rewarded. For men, the reward is said to be hoors. Islamic scholars and imams, especially mullahs, paint vivid pictures of “jannah” (جنّت), paradise, from their pulpits that captivate listeners. For example, mullahs such as Maulana Tariq Jamil repeatedly describe the physical features of the hoors (the virgins of jannah). Virginal, beautiful, and pure, the hoors are of fair complexion, with large eyes, big breasts and physical attractiveness. They are tall, with well-formed bodies. They have perpetual virginity and eternal youth.
The male believers will have “special relations” with them in paradise. Young Muslim men hear these descriptions, get emotionally and physically excited, and the path toward becoming a suicide bomber doesn’t seem so difficult anymore. Such Islamic speeches act like a drug: pleasant in the moment but dangerous in the long run, because they create a craving for a fantasy world where the supposed shortcut to wine and women is nothing but a suicide attack.
In Islam, strict restrictions are placed on sexual relations, while at the same time, the imaginary hoors are described in great detail. This contradiction breeds sexual frustration, pushing Muslim people toward anxiety and restlessness. Then, when stories of jannah are narrated, they feel like a breath of fresh air to the mind, creating fertile ground for jihadist indoctrination.
In one interview, a failed Muslim female bomber was asked: since men are promised hoors, what reward is promised to women? She replied that women would receive an equal number of men, something that was absurd, as nothing of the kind is stated in authoritative Islamic sources.
There is also a difference between suicide bombers in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Taliban often provide financial support to the bomber’s family. In Afghanistan, however, children are sometimes forced into suicide attacks. One Muslim boy, only seven or eight years old, said in an interview that the Taliban promised him money if he carried out an attack. He innocently asked: “But when I die, what will I do with that money in the grave?”
If we look at the root causes, the main motive behind suicide attacks has often been the pursuit of Islamic or nationalist supremacy, or the creation of a separate state. In many places, Islamic teaching emphasizes hostility toward other faiths. For example, the Quran says: “O you who believe! Do not take Jews and Christians as your friends and protectors. They are friends of one another. Whoever among you takes them as friends will indeed become one of them.” (5:51)
Some major suicide attacks in history stand out:
In 1945, Japanese “Kamikaze” pilots crashed their planes into enemy ships during World War II. These pilots were, of course, non-Muslims. Most suicide attacks, however, believe that they are gaining a place in jannah.
In 1971, Pakistani pilot Rashid Minhas sacrificed his plane to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
On September 11, 2001, hijacked planes were used as weapons against the World Trade Center in the U.S.
On September 22, 2013, two Taliban suicide bombers attacked All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 127 people and injuring more than 250. A twin suicide bombing, carried out by militants linked to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed the lives of at least 127 people and left over 250 injured, shattering a sanctuary that had stood as a symbol of interfaith harmony since 1883.
These examples show that while suicide attacks have been carried out for different motives, but many of them share the same goals of spreading the fear of Islam and inflicting harm on non-Muslims.
In today’s world, the suicide attack has become one of the most effective tools of Islamic terrorism. The aim is not just to kill, but to instill fear in ordinary people, so that they feel unsafe even in their own communities.
It is important to understand that violence does not emerge suddenly. It develops over years of mental conditioning into toxic Islam ideologies, accompanied by social pressures. Some people are naturally cold and detached, others antisocial. When such individuals are fed a narrative filled with hatred, they become easy targets for jihad groups. They are stripped of feelings such as guilt or remorse, and can be turned into killers without hesitation.
Pakistan continues to be among the most religiously hostile countries in the world. Religious minorities, including Christians, are often targeted by jihadist groups, because they are perceived as foreigners.
Blasphemy laws, forced conversions, forced marriage and social discrimination are only a few of the issues faced by the Christian population of Pakistan.
A Calculated Atrocity
Within this context, the 2013 attack on All Saints Church in Peshawar stands as a tragic reminder. Two suicide bombers claimed Christian innocent lives and shattered the sense of safety within the Christians, leaving behind a climate of fear and grief.
On the morning of September 23, 2013, while I was in prison arrested under false charges by the FIA of Pakistan, who sought to silence my Christian ministry, I read in the newspaper about a devastating suicide bombing. The news broke my heart.
My friends and I were overwhelmed with pain and sorrow. That very day, we made the firm decision to expose Islam and its role in spreading violence and hatred.
Christians living in Peshawar, Pakistan are continuing to heal in the wake of the September bombing of All Saints Church. Many are still healing from the physical, mental and emotional scars left by the bombing.
The assault occurred just after Sunday Service, as approximately 600 Christian worshippers gathered on the church’s front lawn for a meal.
Two suicide bombers, each carrying 6 kilograms of explosives in their jackets, approached the church in Peshawar’s Kohati Gate area, a sensitive locality home to multiple churches.
The first bomber detonated his device at the gate, killing one security guard and wounding another, while the second breached the church compound, exploding the explosives in his jacket among the church congregation.
The blasts were devastating, leaving holes in the church’s walls, shattering windows of nearby buildings, and scattering body parts across the church lawn. The clock on the church wall stopped at 11:43 a.m., frozen at the moment of the carnage.
According to dishonest government reports, the attack killed at least 81 people, though the Diocese of Peshawar reported up to 127 confirmed deaths.
Among the fatalities were 34 women, 7 children, and 40 men, as stated by that time Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Additionally, 131 people were wounded, with 37 children among them, many in critical condition. The victims included choir members, Sunday school children, and entire families who had come to worship and share.
“Even after tragedies like this, every Pakistani government hides the facts about the lives of Christians.”
The targeting of such a diverse group men, women, and children underscored the indiscriminate brutality of the attackers.
The Perpetrators and Their Motives
The Islamic group Jundallah, linked to the TTP, claimed responsibility for the attack, declaring that Christians and other non-Muslims were “enemies of Islam.”
They justified the massacre as retaliation for U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions, asserting that their targeting of Pakistani Christians would “cause pain” to the United States, conflating local Christians with Western nations in a perverse ideological leap.
The TTP, however, denied involvement, claiming their affiliate was Jundul Hafsa, not Jundallah, highlighting the murky web of jihadist factions operating in Pakistan.
Regardless of the group’s precise identity, the attack was a deliberate assault on a vulnerable minority, exploiting their faith as a pretext for violence.
A Pattern of Persecution
The All Saints Church bombing was not an isolated incident, but part of a broader pattern of violence against Pakistan’s Christian minority, who constituted just 1-2% of the country’s population of 180 million in 2013.
In March 2013, hundreds of Christians in Lahore’s Joseph Colony were attacked over false blasphemy allegations, their homes burned by a mob.
On March 15, 2015, two suicide bombings by the Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar targeted St. John’s Catholic Church and Christ Church in Youhanabad, Lahore, Pakistan, during Sunday services, killing at least 15 people, including 7 Christian men, 3 Christian women, and 2 children, and wounding over 70 others, most of whom were Christians.
On March 27, 2016, another suicide bombing by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar again targeted Christians. These Christians were celebrating Easter at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan. The attack killed at least 75 people, including 29 children, 7 women, and 34 men, and wounded over 340 others, with the majority of victims being women and children.
On December 17, 2017, two suicide bombers from the Islamic State attacked Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan, during a Sunday service, killing at least nine people, including four women and one child, and wounding over 50 others, with at least five women and two children among the injured.
The government of Pakistan has consistently failed to protect its Christian minority, as evidenced by the 2013 All Saints Church bombing and subsequent attacks such as the 2015 Youhanabad church bombings, the 2016 Lahore Easter bombing, and the 2017 Quetta church attack, which collectively killed over 180 Christians, including women and children, and wounded hundreds more.
Despite Pakistan’s constitutional guarantees of religious freedom, the state’s inability or unwillingness to curb jihadist groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, and the Islamic State, coupled with inadequate security at vulnerable sites including churches, reflects a systemic neglect of minority safety.
The use of blasphemy laws, forced conversions, rape and social discrimination further exacerbate the plight of Christians, who face relentless persecution in a nation ranked among the most religiously hostile.
The government’s tepid response, marked by insufficient investigations, failure to dismantle jihad networks, and lack of accountability for security lapses underscores a profound failure to uphold its duty to protect all citizens, leaving Christians to bear the enduring physical, mental, and emotional scars of unchecked violence.
Islam will likely remain the greatest threat to Pakistani Christians for the next hundred years or more. This is because most Pakistani Muslims are kept educationally and intellectually deprived, as the Islamic education system is largely controlled by jihadists who use it to brainwash children and pass this poison on to future generations. As a result, attacks on Christians in Pakistan will continue.
Tony Rice says
A very strange form of worship, question is why and to whom. Why does that deity require worship to involve death and destruction. Very strange, verging on evil ?
gravenimage says
This *is* evil, Tony.
John.Jones says
The Hoori of Muslim male fantasy – fed to them from the pulpit – are sexually available, long hair, blue eyed, large breasts, just happens to look like Western women.
This drives both illegal immigration and sexual assaults once they arrive in western countries.
gravenimage says
It also drives the murder of any women who do not always respond to Muslim men like fantasy sex slaves,
Tony says
Allah helps the Muslim believer achieve Paradise. Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Kosh's Shadow says
I note one big difference between the Kamikaze and other suicide attacks is that the Kamikazes attacked only legitimate MILITARY targets – ones that could and did shoot back.
No planes crashing into pizza parlors.
I do not have the same disgust for them as I do for Muslim suicide bombers.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I would never insult the Imperial Japanese by comparing, let alone equating, them to muslims
Walter Sieruk says
Since both many leftists in the West and even some so called” Christian leaders” who also live in Western countries make the claim that “both Christians and Muslims believe in one God then means that Christians a Muslin believe in the same God.”
In Islamic nations, the imams don’t make that claim. For In Muslim countries Muslims persecution of Christians in vast strong and terrible. For if Christian and Muslims really believe in the God, such persecution would not occur. As the title of this jihadwatch article reveals, “Islamic preaching fuels targeted attacks on Christians in Pakistan”
Related to this above message two topics should be explained in more detail.
First, sadly many Westerners are confused because think and feel that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are one the same. Is the majority always right? Such a false belief is not the case.
As an example the Christian pastor and scholar, Michael Youssef, who is also an Arab in his book entitled JESUS, JIHAD AND PEACE on page 69 informs the reader that “The name Allah comes from pre-Islamic times, and it corresponds to the Babylonian mane Bel or Baal. According to the Middle East scholar E.M. Wherry, pre-Islamic Arabs worshiped gods they called Allah. Both pre-Islamic Allah-worship and Baal –worship involved worship of the sun, the moon and the stars, which is why they are called astral religions. The crescent moon, the symbol of pagan moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam. It is printed on flags of many Islamic countries and placed atop minarets and mosques.”
Likewise, a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, who used to live in the Middle East but now he lives in America . In his book ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD. On pages 7,8. Reads “Allah is the generic term for God in many Middle –Eastern cultures. Allah is identified as one of the 360 or so idols worshiped by the Arabian people for centuries before Muhammad was born. Many do not know that Allah was the good god of the Arabians. This explains the crescent moon found on minarets and mosques and the flags of Muslim nations. .. .Historic writings also identify Allah with Baal.” It’s also worth mentioning that the Bible condemns such astral religions. As in, for example, Second Kings 23:5.
The difference between the God of the Bible and the god of Islam should now be very clear.
Second, there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians to such spiteful malice- filled vicious extent that they even engage in murderous violence against them.
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding those Muslim terrorists jihad suicide/homicide bombers those deluded and dangerous Muslim terrorists who because of the false doctrines and bogus lying promises of Islam about obtaining a sex- filled paradise for himself by wanting to become a ’martyr” literally became What is termed “dangerous to self and others.”
Those Muslims who are the jihadists are dangerous, deadly bombers are deluded. By the word “deluded “ it means that they are under the spell of the deception of the false doctrines of the false religion that is Islam.
This deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.”
Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded that he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. [N.K.J.V.]
A jihadist will after he dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Furthermore, any Muslim terrorist who dies in what in his deluded Islamic way of thinking as a “ martyrdom operation” will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth. The Bible does warn about being beguiled and taken by such story/ fable doctrines, no matter just how enticing story /fable doctrine happen to be .As the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables..” First Timothy 1;4 .
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears ; they will heap up for themselves teachers ;and they will away their ears from the truth and be turned to fables.” Second Timothy 4 : 3,4.
In great contrast. to the deluded Muslim terrorist with his firm but unquestioning blind faith in that Islamic story /fable doctrine of a sex-filled paradise, Christians have the reality of the risen Jesus. As Second Peter 2:16. Reads “For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses to His majesty.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim suicide/homicide bombers are so very mind programmed by the imams .So those death inflecting jihad bombers actually view their murderous bombings as “martyrdom operations.”
To make this more clear in more detail it should be known that by the following.
First, those disingenuous imams are so very dishonest that they completely refuse to those murderous jihad attacks for what they actually are with which are, which are suicide /homicide jihad attack and call those awful actions “martyrdom operations.”
That’s just like scraping the label off a jar a ricin which reads “Danger Poison” and replacing it with another label that has the words “Apple Juice” printed on it. The point beng just changing the label or name doesn’t change the deadly substance in that jar.
Second, those imams who brainwash those young and impressionable Muslims into actually wanting to become human bombs. Then after they have been to mind conditioned to become dangerous to self and others, those Muslim clerics sent them out to commit that deadly atrocities.
If those imams are sincere then they should practice what they preach and strap bombs on themselves, then go out, and then blow themselves up.
That they never, ever do so only shows what insecure unconscionable manipulative despicable cowards they really are. They just think about it , those Muslim clerics just use their students as their “useful idiots ” tools and stooges to achieve their jihad Islamic agenda .
R G says
Good article but you forgot about another group of suicide bombers. Viet Cong suicide bombers , often teenagers or younger. Dying for Uncle Ho Chi Minh.
gravenimage says
Not a great threat today–wish I could say the same of Jihadists.
OLD GUY says
It is always Islamic attacks against Christians. And the media and political correct yell Islamophobia when we the people speak out against Islam. Thats like making it a law that if someone attacks you, don’t fight back just let them kill you. But don’t you dare complain or say anything bad about your attacker or we will lock you up.
What idiot came up with Islamophobia?
gravenimage says
From Jannah’s Promises to Suicide Bombings: How Islamic Preaching Fuels Targeted Attacks on Christians in Pakistan
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Attacks on Christians–and Hindus and Sikhs–in Pakistan arre all about Islam.