Just an observation here about Buddhist "suicide bombers"...

The Japanese employed thousands and thousands of them in World War II. They were called "Special Attack Forces" or "Kamikazes" (in the western vernacular). They sacrificed themselves in order to kill MANY other people (at least they certainly hoped to). Sometimes they succeeded in that objective. The majority of them were nominally Buddhists, but I don't think their religion was the key factor influencing their willingness to die in suicide attacks.

The key factors were usually intense patriotism, political indoctrination, a self-sacrificing military and social honor code that they had been taught all their lives, great peer pressure (fear of being seen as cowardly by refusing when others volunteered willingly), despair in the face of overwhelming American military strength, a desire to materially damage "the enemy", and other such factors.

Their religion may have made a minor contribution to their willingness to die that way, but only a minor one, I'd say.

It was a faith-based decision, but it was also a pragmatic one. If you are virtually certain to die anyway in a conventional air attack against overwhelming enemy strength and you will do little or no damage in the process, then why not instead die in a way where one man can with his airplane destroy an entire ship full of enemy fighters?

Very pragmatic....but not very wise in a spiritual sense...according strictly to my view of spirituality, that is. My view says we are all of one family. The average Japanese airman did not see it that way in WWII, nor did the average American airman...although some of them eventually woke up to it, when the war was over and they got a chance to get to personally know some of the people they'd been sent out to kill.

Spirituality encourages one to see oneself in others, live and let live, and have compassion. That's not always easy.