I watched a TV program last night called 'Abraham's Children'. In a Jerusalem university teenagers were asked what they thought about suicide bombers, and a number of them said that it's the only weapon they have left. These were not hysterical fundamentalists, they simply felt that all other options have been exhausted and failed. I found it hard to believe that they accepted it so easily, but these kids just took it as a mathematical progression.

BTW on the same show they mentioned that the word 'religion' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to bring together, to bind'. I know this is irrelevant to the above argument, but interesting nevertheless.