Down with the mythology of ideas behind suicide bombers

.Robert Anthony Pape, Jr. (born 1960) is an American political scientist known for his work on international security affairs, especially the coercive strategies of air power and the rationale of suicide terrorism. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and founder of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST). In early October 2010, the University of Chicago press released Pape's third book, co-authored with James K. Feldman, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It. While popular in the mass media, Pape's findings on suicide terrorism have routinely been challenged by scholars who have identified potential methodological flaws with his conclusions. 

In spite of the general believe that suicide bombing attacks are motivated by Islamic believes, Robert A. Pape, that studied over 50.000 events taken from 35 different countries, states as the result of his deep research that, out of the 462 cases presented, 50% were secular. That 95 % of suicide attacks have not religion in common, but a strategic objective to draw people away from a territory that they consider their homeland or is prized greatly. They are directed onto democratic societies which are perceive as of weak.
They are "walk in" volanteers and not as it was thought full time students of madrasas that had been brainwashed. They have a strong support of the local community. This video is kind of "longish" but worths every minute of it!