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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Please show me where the Tamils were idealogically driven by religion.
They were a marxist leninist organization so there was no promises of heaven or being able to stand proudly before god after they commited their act.
Their war had nothing to do with religion.
And everything to do with a political aim.
You could also argue that the Japanese Kamikaze were driven by their subserviance to the emperor and the defense of their homeland and not by religious aims. Most of the suicide bombings occured as the U.S. fleet was driving to their homeland and not as much earlier when the Japanese were having their success in the pacific.
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I'm not saying the Tamils were driven by religion but they weren't atheists either,95% were probably Hindus and I remember a story that there leader was thought to have converted from a Hindu to a Christian. (no idea if true)
As for the Japanese as they became more desperate the leaders convinced the pilots that being a kamikaze would be rewarded in the afterlife. Because they didn't use the words God or Muhammad doesn't mean there wasn't a form of religion for their acts.
Fact is most (not all) of these type of attacks nowdays come from religious extremists