An example of Altruistic suicide can be seen in the Islamic terrorist organizations. ... More importantly, they were committed to the killing themselves and others for their Islamic faith. ... The Muslims who sacrificed their lives for their faith, had too tight of a connection with their religion, their fellow people, and for their common cause of causing harm on the United States. ... There was the feeling of sacrificing themselves as individuals for the advancement of the Islamic religion. ... So on a cost/benefit idea, the killing of thousands of Americans in trade for the death of a coupl...

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This theory best explains the development of the Islamic world, such as Al-Quida. ... To the Muslim extremist, their primary preference is to achieve salvation. According to Muslim doctrine, the quickest and most sure way of accomplishing this is through dying in the name of Islam. ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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