*sigh*...Carol...you are still reading my comments, and then replying, not to what I claimed, but to a point YOU wish to make.

I am not trying to characterize all the known suicide bombings since 1980...and NOT to the Tamil conflict, and NOT to the Lebanese conflict.....I am trying to reflect on what is happening since 9/11, and particularly to the Iraqi events and Israeli events in the news recently...and of course, to the London events. If you wish to argue that I SHOULD be paying attention to what the Tamils and Lebanese have done, you may...but I won't get into that, as those issues are beyond what *I* am hearing about daily.

There simply IS a strong element of religious recruitment and much distortion of basic Islamic theology happening in those conflicts these days....and as I said, I am pleased that many moderate Muslim clerics are realizing this and beginning to speak out about the problem.