Quite a fatuous argument: the 7/7 Tube attacks in London are blamed on British occupation of what?
If it were occupation, rather than some gloss on Islam, the Basques and Catalans, the Germans and Japanese in 1946, and all the peoples of Eastern Europe during the Cold War, would have resorted to suicide bombing.
Send the nitwit a copy of the writings of Sayyed Qutb. As one level the good professor is right: classical Islam, while having a perverse notion of martyrdom that includes death in battle, contains strong prohibitions against suicide. However, the importation of existenstialist ideas into Qu’ranic intepretation by Qutb has been used to override the Qu’ranic prohibition on suicide.
Maybe someone tell the assorted imams, mullahs and muftis who advocate suicide attacks that existentialism, with its notion of ‘absolute commitment’ as the source of a meaningful life (or death), is a kufir philosophy,and that following Qutb’s reading of the Qu’ran is not pure Islam.
“Quite a fatuous argument: the 7/7 Tube attacks in London are blamed on British occupation of what?”
Well, gotta be a few offices in Arabia plus once in a while some street footage...