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Suicide bombing is the act where individuals deliver certain form of explosives and detonating them as a way of killing others and themselves in the process. Suicide bombings intend to injure and kill anyone within the range of explosion. The victims are mostly unsuspecting civilians although the main targets are usually military personnel and political figures. In most cases, suicide bombings are linked to political grievances and causes. This report endeavors to summarize the details of the article titled "The culture of Martyrdom" written by David Brooks whilst showing how suicide bombing can cause grievous repercussions in the society.

David Brooks shows that suicide bombing inflicts terror and death on its targets. It also burdens and intoxicates those individuals who sponsor it. Many factors cause it. First, individuals carry it out because of a desire for vengeance. Secondly, individuals take part in a suicide bombing with the belief that it will assure them eternal salvation and earthly glory. Others take part in a suicide bombing as a sign of religious purity. Suicide bombing alters the imagination of those practicing it to unimaginable levels. An example of a dispute that has engaged numerous suicide bombings is the Arab-Israeli dispute. It has over the years changed in nature due to administrations of suicide bombings. Brooks shows that "Suicide bombing is a highly communitarian enterprise… crazed Palestinian gotten hold of a bomb and gone off to kill Israelis."

As seen from the article, no suicide bombings were recorded before 1983. Muslims are mostly the ones that engage in suicide bombings. However, the Koran forbids an individual from taking his or her own life. For a long time, this rule was strictly observed but was overturned by Hizbollah an Islamic resistance movement that advocated the use of this tactic as a weapon against its enemies. Religious leaders agreed to this and gave blessings to whoever wished to take part in it.

The suicide-bombing tactic was gradually introduced in Palestine and Fathi Shiqaqi one of the founders of Jihad wrote some of the perceived guidelines for successful suicide bombings as countermeasures to religiosity. He says,

"Thus suicide bombing has become phenomenally popular…making the act more popular than Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, or any of the other groups that sponsor it"(n.p.).

The assassination of Yahya Ayyash, a Palestinian bomb maker triggered new thoughts among the Palestinians. First of all, they decided to endure, fight, and suffer for their final victory. Therefore, their struggle did not involve compromise and negotiations with their enemies. They used the suicide-bombing tactic to get back their land.

Many tightly run organizations plan the bombings by enlisting, instructing, and providing incentives the bombers and their families. These organizations seek those individuals who are mentally stable and those that are not struggling with depression. Most of the suicide bombers are between the ages of eighteen to thirty. They are all educated, rich and are mentally stable.

As David Brooks writes, bombers are made to believe that members of their families or close friends have been murdered by a political body. This gives them enough motivation to carry out this revolting act. They also undergo indoctrination processes where they are given all details relating to jihad. In some cases, recruits are forced to lie in deserted graves as a way of visualizing their supposed purification after death. They are made to believe that life brings old age, sickness, and even betrayal. Eventually, they undergo forced and videotaped testimony before they accomplish their assigned mission.

The shocking phenomenon is that these bombers are usually happy and proud when they instigate a terrorist attack. Most Westerners and Israelites believe that a Palestinian culture is responsible for the nurturing and creation of suicide bombers. Procedures have been established as a way of exterminating the grandiloquence of holy war through the moderation of the tone depicted in textbooks. However, children in Palestine grow in a culture where suicide bombers are successful and are sports heroes, religious idols, and rock stars. He writes