“Ohhh, he even bought a copy of the Koran before this “professor” started making making excuses for suicide bombers this time!”
Your reaction, and that of others here, to this man’s work displays more emotion than thought.
Perhaps you should have a look at this:
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/
Often people have taken a stand, against impossible odds, to protect something they valued. Sometimes the odds were such that their action would be deemed “suicidal” by most people who were not in their situation.
No, I actually thought his remark about buying a copy of the Koran was beyond shallow.
Both Islamic suicide bombers and WWII Japanese kamikazes were both fueled by an ideology that’s alien to the west, and I thought this professor just skimmed the surface trying to grasp that mindset.