She is 18, 30 or at times even 50. Sometimes she is a daughter, a sister or a wife. Or even a mother who blows herself up with explosives. She is not doing this with the purpose of taking her own life. She is detonating herself with heavy explosives primarily to take the lives of others. In short, she adopts the path of suicide bombing.
What really makes someone who is in this golden age of her life to do this? When the thoughts of a beautiful life fly like a butterfly over different colours of life. What really makes these women to take such steps? Is life not precious for them? We adopt so many personal and social measures to protect life from all forms of dangers but then we witness these young ladies and even men give up their life so easily just for the sake of taking the lives of few others who they consider as enemies.
The world condemns and considers these acts of suicide bombing as terrorism and presents fundamentalism and extremism of religion as the root cause behind such actions. Suicide bombings have been witnessed by many. Like the Sri Lankan LTTE lady’s attack on India’s late Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi, in Palestine-Israel conflict, Iraq and elsewhere. Muslims are seen in the front line of such actions, not because their religion teaches them to do this but due to some other reason which lies deep inside the human innate nature which can take any human being to such a stage. Why don’t we realize or consider to dig deep inside the cause as to why this bomber killed herself. Why did she not care for her life?
We have made suicide bomber an object of concern but we have not looked at those parameters which have become cause for this action by this person. This bomber commits suicide bombing because she has suffered a loss, much greater than her life. She is oppressed. Her faith is oppressed. Her value system has been tarnished by others. She is helpless; she does not possess weapons to fight wars which other nations possess. The only thing she has is her own life. By blasting herself amidst others and taking lives of others, she is not telling the world to count how many bodies have fallen out. She is sending a message to the imperialists of the world that her faith and ideology is much beyond life and their faith is now under oppression. If the world remains silent to the oppression of one group over other which is helpless and powerless, what can then be expected from the oppressed class? Rather than giving their lives by just being oppressed, they prefer to give their lives on their own along with taking lives of the surrounding people.
When a woman suffers atrocities of life, she at times commits suicide to get relief from the pain of this world just because she cannot remove her worries. She prefers to kill herself. Synonymous is this with the case of suicide bombing. A woman goes for suicide bombing in tense situations. The sound of these suicide bombings will still be heard if a woman adopts to express her annoyance with life this way. Children will continue losing their mothers, husbands will lose their wives and daughters will depart from their mothers in this entire life’s game of expressing catastrophic troubles in their lives.