Week 7 Response Post

This article is about Umm Anas who is a trained female suicide bomber. She was recently married but still wants to live her life out as a suicide bomber. Even her husband supports her choice in becoming a suicide bomber. If she were to get pregnant she would wait until she had the baby before dying. Her baby will be left to her parents to take care of. Most suicide bombers do not tell their families which is the case with Umm. She believes that dying for a religious cause is “a gift from God.”
My initial reaction to this article is repulsion that Umm, only eighteen years old, would actually commit suicide. Is killing herself more important than raising a family she may have? Is it more important than her family and husband? If I was her family I would have slapped some sense into her. There is no point in killing yourself and killing others with you. I wonder if she really feels nothing when she knows that she will kill women and children. Does she even consider that it could be her family that could be killed by a blast? I honestly think they should detain her so she doesn’t kill anyone.
The stance of the author is an un-biased one because it is a report on a young, female suicide bomber. Evidence that supports that is the questions that the author asks. One question was “what would you do if you were pregnant?” The article is all about her and it’s not like the author asked her why she would do such a horrible thing?
One question I have about the article is how they find girls like her? How does the Islamic Jihad manage to find girls willing to die like that? It really amazes me that they can find so many girls to do suicide bombings. I think it’s really sad that girls have to end up like this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7667031.stm