Analysis Of Robert Pape's Dying To Win

In Dying To Win, Robert A. Pape challenges the views about why suicide terrorists do what they do and to whom. Pape is trying to convey that "suicide terrorism is rising around the world" (Pape pg. 6). Since many terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by Muslim terrorist motivated by religious beliefs, it makes people think that Islamic fundamentalism is the central cause. The connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism is incorrect, and encourage foreign countries to harm many Muslims people that are harmless. The author has assembled a database that accounts “every suicide bombing and attack around the globe from 1980 through 2003” (Pape pg. 7). There were 315 of terrorist suicide attacks at all.

Pape believes that the data proves that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism. Pape spends a sufficient time on many chapter of the book explaining to the reader that foreign occupation is the cause of suicide terrorism. The main agitator of suicide attacks is “the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a Marxist-Leninist group whose members are from Hindu families but who are adamantly opposed to religion” (Pape pg. 9). The Tamil Tigers committed 76 of the 315 suicide attacks. The author clearly and convincingly gets his message across by supporting

Papes states to the reader why a terrorist attack and why are their motives. One of their motives is that they do not want a democratic power to occupy a weaker state. The terrorist attacks innocent people to force the democratic power to withdraw from their territory because the democratic power wants to change the way people thinks, and behave in the region that they occupy. Dying to win attempts to address the questions surrounding suicide terrorism in a broader