December 12, 2005
Suicide Killers: An Interview with the Documentarist
Jamie Glazov of Front Page Magazine interviews Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker whose latest documentary, Suicide Killers, explores the psychology of suicide bombers. An excerpt:
One of the paradoxes of radical Islam is that most of what is forbidden on earth is allowed, as a reward for good behaviour, in the afterlife. The problem that we are facing is that, because of the modern world, the easiness of communications, travel, flow of information, most Muslims, a lot of them still living like in the Middle Ages, are confronted with our civilisation, namely democracies, where women are equal to men. Separation of men and women, supremacy of men over women, are among the most important concepts of the Muslim culture.
I am not here to denounce what one doctor and philosopher in my film describes as the sacrifice of Eros to Thanatos, found in all monotheism and, somehow, also in Buddhism. For thousands of years, men developed this absurd concept that sacrificing sexuality, which is the most fulfilling of all pleasures, would appease the God of death, or Death itself. While evolving, the modern man started to moderate the importance of this sacrifice. This is not the case in Islam, where sex out of marriage is a severe offense to the law, where a girl can be slaughtered by her own father or brother if she has lost her virginity, or if she wants to marry someone who has not been chosen by her family.
The result of all this pathology is that you end up with 16 to 20 year old men, with a strong libido, who have never approached a woman, don't even know what they look like, consider them as evil, and have this high level of energy, literally ready to blow themselves up out of frustration. It then becomes very easy to convince them that they have a duty to destroy impurity, symbolized by the Occidental world, and that they will be rewarded by 72 virgins in the afterlife. Their entire society is built on the absolute belief in this afterlife, so much better than the miserable life they have on earth -- thanks to the teachings of their leaders.
Read the whole thing. Somehow, I don't think this documentary will be nominated for an Oscar.
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